Samtec is a heavy supporter of many industry standards such as those within the transmission protocols, hardware, interconnection, and sub-systems areas of product development. We have an entire Industry Standards section of our website dedicated to how we work to support these standards with our expertise as well as our products. What is PCI/104-Express? Since its adoption n 2008, the PCI/104-Express specification established a standard to use a high speed PCI Express® bus in embedded … [Read more...]
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Standards Update: QSFP-DD800 MSA and VITA 57.X
What do the QSFP-DD800 MSA and VITA 57 have in common? Fair question. One focuses on defining the next-gen pluggable form factors while the other complements FPGA mezzanine applications. So what is the link? Samtec, of course! Samtec participates in many Industry Standards to develop commonality is specific applications. QSFP-DD800 and VITA 57 are but two examples. QSFP-DD800 MSA: New HW Spec QSFP28. QSFP-DD. QSFP-DD800. It seems the Multi Source Agreements (MSAs) for Quad Small … [Read more...]
Samtec Expands VITA 57.4 with FMC+ Extender Card
Developing with FPGAs requires patience. Why? They are so flexible and configurable. System designers are only limited by their imagination. Prototyping with FPGAs also poses many challenges. It seems like there are new FMC / FMC+ solutions appearing daily. Sometimes the FPGA carrier card or development board can get crowded. How can that be fixed? VITA 57.4 FMC+ Extender Card Engineers prototyping with industry-standard FPGA evaluation and development kits often leverage the FMC+ … [Read more...]
VITA 57.1 FMC and VITA 57.4 FMC+ are like ‘Avengers: Endgame’ . . . Kinda
What’s that? There’s a new movie out? What’s it called? Avengers? Who are they? What do they do? I highly doubt anyone – except someone’s grandmother – has said the above. 'Avengers: Endgame' has been taking the world by storm. For superhero fanboys like yours truly, 'Avengers: Endgame' is the dream movie worth waiting for. In a similar way, the VITA 57 FMC and FMC+ specifications are the dream interface between FPGAs carrier cards and mezzanine cards. Like 'Avengers: Endgame' … [Read more...]
Samtec Announces New VITA 57.4 FMC+ Development Kits with FireFly™ Optical Engines
System designers and engineers constantly face design challenges to achieve higher data-rates in dense, optical applications. A popular system-level design approach in many high-speed applications marries the configurability and high-speed performance of FPGAs with the advantages of fiber optics. Samtec’s new 25 Gbps and 28 Gbps FireFly™ VITA 57.4 FMC+ Development Kits provide an easy connection between FPGAs and fiber optics. This new solution offers an easy-to-use evaluation and … [Read more...]
Interconnects For VITA 57.4 FMC+ Standard
VITA 57.4 FMC+ Standard As an ANSI/VITA member, Samtec supports the release of the new ANSI/VITA 57.4-2018 FPGA Mezzanine Card Plus Standard. VITA 57.4, also referred to as FMC+, expands upon the I/O capabilities defined in ANSI/VITA 57.1 FMC by adding two new connectors that enable higher data rates. FMC+ modules provide a standardized mezzanine card often employed in FPGA development solutions and by COTS manufacturers. Due to features such as their small form factor and … [Read more...]
VITA 57 Solutions Enable Scalable ASIC Development Platforms
Readers of the Samtec blog know that FPGAs offer the most flexible electronics development platform in the world. Diverse applications ranging from machine learning and embedded vision to 5G wireless and cloud computing leverage the configurability and programmability of FPGAs to scale I/O, computing and DSP functionality. FPGAs are also frequently used in next-generation ASIC development projects. FPGAs allow for fast and accurate ASIC modeling and verification with accelerated … [Read more...]
Samtec Introduces New VITA 57.4-compliant FMC+ Loopback Cards
Developing high-speed communication paths using the latest FPGA multi-gigabit transceivers presents engineers with many challenges. What data rates and protocols need supporting? What reference clock frequency is needed? Will the PLLs work? Thankfully, most of the transceiver hardware concerns - differential signaling, impedance matching, equalization and pre-emphasis among other details - are addressed in FPGA development and evaluation cards from the FPGA vendors. FPGA designers can … [Read more...]
Samtec Launches New VITA 57.4 FMC+ ChalkTalk
It seems FPGAs are getting bigger and faster all the time. FPGA vendors continue to integrate more transceivers running at higher speeds in their newest ICs. As an example, the Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ VU13P FPGA contains 128 GTY transceivers running data rates up to 32.75 Gbps. The increase in number and speed of transceivers on the FPGAs complements the Samtec roadmap of next-generation high-speed board-to-board connectors. Late last year, Samtec announced the … [Read more...]
14 Gbps Optical Link In FMC VITA 57.1 Form Factor For FPGA Applications (OFC 2016)
Kevin Burt, of the Samtec Optical Group, discusses one of two demonstrations at OFC 2016. This is a demo of a FireFly™ 14 Gbps optical link in a FMC VITA 57.1 form factor for FPGA applications, for the high performance computing, rugged military, and industrial markets, to name a few. This demo is an optical interconnection between two FPGAs, with a Xilinx Development Card and two FMCs (FPGA mezzanine cards), one from TechWay and the other from Crossfield Technology. This is 8 lanes of 14 … [Read more...]
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