Multi-GHz RF Record and Replay Solution for Test and Measurement Applications
Record and replay of Multi GHz RF Signals can be a challenge when it comes to development of 5G/6G mobile communication. Other fields like measurement systems, telemetry and quantum computing technology face the same challenge of recording and replaying high speed analog signals.
IAF GmbH developed the ‘SDR6001’, a multi-channel Software Defined Radio Transceiver in a 19″/1U RF shielded enclosure. The System combines an AMD RFSoC Gen 3, a full custom 8 channel RF Front End and MLE’s NVMe Streamer for storage acceleration.
Equipped with integrated clock generation, internal/external clock interfaces, 100GbE and integrated SSDs the system allows to record and to replay signals up to 6GHz.
The AMD RFSoC Gen 3 with its integrated high speed ADC/DAC converters, Processing System, Programmable Logic and the multiple connectivity options is the core of the System. The integrated 2x 100G Ethernet MAC/PCS allows streaming data in and out.
For standalone operation, IAF integrated NVMe Steamer from Missing Link Electronics. Standalone operation means, working with SDR6001 without 100GB Ethernet real time streaming. Installation of double NVMe SSDs offers replaying and capturing Terabytes of data with the combined data rate of 4.2 GiB/s write and 6GiB/s read.
MLE’s NVMe Streamer is a Full Accelerator NVMe host subsystem and takes care of the entire PCIe communication and the NVMe queues. This allows the CPU to focus on setting up the data paths and data organization.
The Control and Measurement Architecture from IAF handles, controlled by the software‚ “Session Manager”, the complete system configuration and the setup of the data paths. The RF settings allow it to work with variable RF frequencies up to 6 GHz via integrated RF front-ends. An external RF front-end for mmWave operation at 60 GHz with 1 GHz bandwidth is also available.
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IAF has done development and research on wire, wireless and optical communication for over 30 years. Therefore we utilize the newest standards to develop Prototypes, small series and experimental Systems. IAF conquers the challenge of growing data rates in the fields of mobile communications, digital broadcasting, measurement technology and telemetry. Starting from System architecture, development of digital and analog system components up to full System implementation.
Digital communication is its keyword!
Missing Link Electronics GmbH
Missing Link Electronics is an AMD AECG Premier Partner which offers solutions from design services, over full system stacks up to entire systems. For more than a decade MLE has demonstrated expertise in FPGA programming – offloading CPUs and in accelerating software-rich system stacks via so-called Domain-Specific Architectures. To implement this MLE makes heavy use of heterogeneous processing such as FPGAs which we program using C++/C/SystemC as well as VHDL and Verilog HDL. Hence, from software to silicon!
If it is packets, we make it go faster!
