AV145

Product overview

The AV145 is part of apissys’ range of High-Speed data conversion and signal processing solutions based on the VITA 46, VPX standard.

The AV145 is fully compliant with OpenVPX standard, accommodating various communication
protocols such as PCIe, SRIO, 1 Gbit and XAUI 10 Gbit Ethernet, as well as non OpenVPX adopted
standard such as Aurora.

The AV145 includes one Xilinx® ZYNQ® Ultrascale+™ RFSoC GEN 3 XCZU47DR with the minimum
external resources for low power applications.

The AV145 features eight channels 14-bit 5 Gsps ADC and eight channels 14-bit 9.85 Gsps DAC with
optimized analog performances, making it ideally suited for embedded signal processing applications
such as Electronic Warfare, Wideband Radar Transmitter/Receivers or Wideband Communication
applications.

The AV145 features one internal ultra-low jitter reference and two clock synthesizers and can be used
with external reference for higher flexibility.

The AV145 Xilinx® ZYNQ® Ultrascale+™ RFSoC XCZU47DR provides an impressive processing
capability of more than 5.5 TMACs (Multiply Accumulate per second), four 1333 MHz Arm Cortex-A53
cores, one 512M64 or 1G64 DDR4-2400 SDRAM memory for data processing, two 2 Gb synchronous
FLASH memory for program boot and one 1TB NVMe embedded SSD.

The AV145 provides one GbE, one UART and one USB 2.0 interfaces.

The AV145 comes with an embedded Linux and all necessary cores to build user FPGA applications.

Benefits & features

  • 8 channels 14-bit 5 Gsps ADC
  • 8 channels 14-bit 9.85 Gsps DAC
  • Two Ultra Low jitter clock synthesizers
  • External or internal sampling clock reference
  • User programmable Xilinx® ZYNQ®Ultrascale+™ ZU47DRRFSoC
  • One bank up to 1G64 DDR4-2400 SDRAM
  • One 1TB NVMe embedded SSD
  • 3U OpenVPX standard compliant
  • Air cooled and Conduction cooled rugged versions

Description

14-bit 5 Gsps ADCs
The AV145 supports eight Analog to Digital conversion channels from the RFSoC GEN 3 device with up to 14-bit 5 Gsps conversion rate.
The AV145 provides eight front panel SMPM connectors for analog inputs.
Single ended input signals are AC coupled with an input bandwidth from 10 MHz to more than 6 GHz with 8 dBm input level.

14-bit 9.85 Gsps DACs
The AV145 supports eight Digital to Analog conversion channels from the RFSoC GEN 3 device with up to 14-bit 9.85 Gsps conversion rate.
The AV145 provides eight front panel SMPM connectors for analog outputs.
Single ended output signals are AC coupled with an ouput bandwidth from 10 MHz to more than 6 GHz with -3 dBm output level.

Clock
The AV145 provides one ultra-low jitter clock synthesizer for the ADC channels and one ultra-low jitter clock synthesizer for the DAC channels, both locked on a common 100 MHz internal reference or on the external reference.
The AV145 supports a 10 to 200 MHz external reference input either from a front panel SMPM connector or from the VPX P2 Connector. A reference output is available on a front panel SMPM connector and on VPX P2.

RFSoC
The AV145 is fitted with a Xilinx® ZYNQ® Ultrascale+™ GEN3 XCZU47DR user programmable RFSoC. Only few resources are used to control and communicate with external hardware such as VPX Interface or clock synthesizers, leaving most of the logic, block RAM, Ultra RAM and all DSP resources available for customer processing.
Dedicated to signal processing, the Xilinx ZYNQ Ultrascale+ XCZU47DR RFSoC include 930 K logics cells, 38 Mbit of RAM blocs, 22.5 Mbit of Ultra RAM, 2 PCIe GEN3x16 interface blocs and 4,272 DSP48 slices for an impressive processing
power of more than 5.5 TMACs.
The RFSoC is delivered in -2 speed grade.

VPX interface
The AV145 features an OpenVPX VITA 65 compliant interface with support for two Fat Pipes for Data Plane connected to the RFSoC Programmable Logic.
The AV145 also supports one GbE interface configurable as 1000BASE-T or 1000BASE-BX, one UART and one USB2.0 interfaces connected to the RFSoC Processing System.
The AV145 features 18 LVDS differential pairs configurable as 36 single-ended LVCMOS on P2.
The AV145 features one low phase noise clock generator able to synthesize clock references for the RFSoC GTRs and GTYs, allowing support of all major protocols such as Aurora, GigE, PCIe Gen 1, 2 and 3, SATA, SRIO and XAUI 10Gbit Ethernet up to 25.785 Gbps

Memories
The AV145 includes one 512M64, with support for up to 1G64, DDR4-2400 SDRAM memory bank connected to the RFSoC Processing System.
The AV145 features two 2 Gbit QSPI FLASH memories used to store the RFSoC boot files and Programmable Logic configuration files.
A 512GB or 1TB NVMe SSD is connected to the RFSoC Processing System embedded PCIe interface for data storage.

Software and Firmware
The AV145 is delivered with a Linux distribution for the Arm Cortex-A53 cores.
The AV145 comes with a firmware package which includes VHDL cores allowing for control and communication with all AV145 hardware resources.
A base design is provided which demonstrates the use of the AV145 and gives users a starting point for firmware development. The AV145 firmware package is supported on the Xilinx VIVADO® (version TBD) design suite.

Software
The AV145 is delivered with a Linux BSP.

Ruggedization
The AV145 is delivered in air cooled and conduction cooled standard or rugged versions for use in severe environmental conditions.
Standard VITA 47 supported ruggedization levels are EAC4, EAC6 and ECC4

Diagrams

Tech specs

Analog Inputs/Outputs

• Input coupling: AC
• Full power bandwidth: > 6 GHz
• Full scale: 8 dBm
• Output coupling: AC
• Full power bandwidth: > 6 GHz
• Full scale: -3 dBm
• Impedance: 50 Ohm
• Connectors: SMPM


Analog-Digital Conversion

• GEN 3:
• eight channels, 14-bit Fs ≤ 5 GHz
• NSD: -144 dBFS/Hz
• SFDR: 80 dBc (TBC, excl. H2 and H3)


Digital-Analog Conversion

• GEN 3:
• eight channels, 14-bit Fs ≤ 9.85 GHz
• NSD: -155 dBFS/Hz
• SFDR: 80 dBc (TBC, excl. H2, H3 and Fs/2)


Clock

• Internal:
• One 100 MHz ultra-low phase noise clock reference
• Two ultra-low jitter clock synthesizers, 500 MHz to 10 GHz.
• External reference:
• frequency: 10 MHz to 200 MHz
• Connector: SMPM, 50 Ohm and VPX P2

Xilinx ZYNQ Ultrascale+ RFSoC

• XCZU47DR-1FFVE1156I


Memory

• One bank 512M64 DDR4 SDRAM, 1200 MHz clock
• Support up to one bank 1G64 DDR4 SDRAM
• Support for two 2 Gbit QSPI FLASH memories
• One 512 GB or 1 TB NVMe SSD on PCIe GEN2 x2


VPX interface

• P1:
• Data plane: two fat pipes
• Control plane: one ultra-thin pipes for 1000BASE-BX
• one thin pipe for 1000BASE-T
• User-defined ultra-thin pipes: UART and USB2.0
• P2:
• 18 LVDS differential pairs, configurable as 36 LVCMOS

Firmware support

• VHDL cores for all hardware resources
• Base design
• Supported by Xilinx VIVADO (version TBD)


Software support

• Software:
• Linux 64-bits for Arm Cortex-A53 cores


Ruggedization

• As per VITA 47:
• Air cooled: EAC4 and EAC6
• Conduction cooled: ECC4


Power dissipation (ZU47DR)

• +12V: 6.5 A max (78W)
• +5V: 0.5 A max (USB)
• +3.3V: 0 A max (0W)
• +3.3VAUX: 0.6 A max (2W)


Weight

• Air cooled : 550g
• Conduction cooled : 650g

Deliverables

Part Number A V 145 - rr - a
Ruggedization level Air Standard
Air Rugged
Conduction Rugged
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AS
AR
CR
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Options ZYNQ Ultrascale+ RFSoC ZU47DR - - - - - - 1

Applications

  • Electronic Warfare – Radar-ESM - ECM
  • Wideband Radar Transmitter / Receiver
  • MIMO
  • Wideband Communication

ruggedization

Air flow, Standard
AS (VITA 47 EAC4)
Air flow, Rugged
AR (VITA 47 EAC6)
Conduction Standard
CS (VITA 47 ECC3)
Conduction Rugged
CR (VITA47 ECC4)
Operating
Temperature
0°C to +55°C (1)
(10 CFM airflow at sea level)
-40 to +70ºC (1)
(20 CFM airflow at sea level)
-40°C to +70°C
(Card Edge)
-40°C to +85°C
(Card Edge)
Non Operating Temperature -40°C to +85°C -50°C to +100°C -50°C to +100°C -55°C to +105°C
Operating
Vibration
(Random)
5Hz - 100Hz +3 dB/octave
100Hz-1kHz = 0.04 g2/Hz
1kHz - 2kHz -6 dB/octave
5Hz - 100Hz +3 dB/octave
100Hz - 1kHz = 0.04 g2/Hz
1kHz - 2kHz -6 dB/octave
5Hz - 100Hz +3 dB/octave
100Hz - 1kHz = 0.1 g2/Hz
1kHz - 2kHz -6 dB/octave
5Hz - 100Hz +3 dB/octave
100Hz - 1kHz = 0.1 g2/Hz
1kHz - 2kHz -6 dB/octave
Operating Shock 20g, 11 millisecond, half-sine 20g, 11 millisecond, half-sine 40g, 11 millisecond, half-sine 40g, 11 millisecond, half-sine
Operating
Relative Humidity
0% to 95%
non-condensing
0% to 95%
non-condensing
0% to 95%
non-condensing
0% to 95%
non-condensing
Operating
Altitude
@ 0 to 10,000 ft
with adequate airflow
@ 0 to 30,000 ft
with adequate airflow
@ 0 to 30,000 ft @ 0 to 60,000 ft
Conformal Coating No Optional (default acrylic AVR80) Yes (default acrylic AVR80) Yes (default acrylic AVR80)

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