Mistral Unveils Pentland's RAD-2 Digital Receiver PMC

Posted by EDA Geek News Staff in Boards, Busses on Thursday, April 27, 2006

Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd., a leading provider of complete technology solutions and professional services in the embedded space, announced the availability of the RAD-2 from Pentland Systems, a solution specifically designed for the Radar, Software Radio and Signal Intelligence markets.

The RAD-2 digital receiver PMC is a leading solution for acquisition of high-speed analog signals and offers a dual Channel, 14-bit resolution with up to 105MSPS sampling speed and 16 individual down-converter channels provided by 4GC4016 down-converters for I&Q demodulation. Substantial FPGA resources augment the dual 105MSPS analog acquisition channels. High-bandwidth transfer over 64-bit 66MHz PCI is enabled using powerful on-board DMA engines. Extensive support for system-level functionality such as BIT is also provided. OS drivers are available for VxWorks, Linux and Windows XP.

The RAD-2 has a powerful suite of post-acquisition DSP capabilities, with a user-programmable Xilinx Virtex II(TM) FPGA for digital signal processing and A/D control along with bi-directional high-speed FIFO buffers and a comprehensive built-in-test with extensive support for PBIT, IBIT & CBIT modes. RAD-2 is available in commercial and rugged conduction-cooled environmental versions.

About Pentland Systems
Pentland Systems are world leaders in the acquisition and synthesis of analog signals. Pentland Systems provides comprehensive coverage of modern Software Defined Radio solutions. The product line includes high-speed digital receivers and transmitters as well as intelligent analog input/output, sigma delta, synchro and resolver modules. The VME and PMC boards are designed for the toughest Industrial, Military and Aerospace applications including conduction-cooled environments.

About Mistral Solutions
Mistral Solutions is a professionally managed technology house undertaking Systems Integration and providing Value added Services. It provides specialized hardware and software solutions in the Embedded domain, as well as Professional Services in Systems Design and Development, Real-Time Applications, and Communications.

By virtue of its core technical expertise, Mistral has valued alliances with leading global companies and it markets scalable computer platforms from Motorola Embedded Communications Computing (previously Force Computers), RTOS and IDE tools from Wind River Systems Inc., telecommunications solutions from NMS Communications, commercial & rugged grade COTS computing solutions from Curtiss Wright (Dy4 Systems, VISTA Controls, Synergy Microsystems, Systran, Peritek, Prima Graphics), board level computers for Industrial Applications from MEN Mikro Electronik, Single Board Computers for VMEbus and CompactPCI from Microsys, high-availability Network Service-Ready Platform (NSRP) solutions from Continuous Computing Corporation, standard and custom products for commercial, military, high-tech, medical, telecom, and research markets from Dawn VME, I/O modules from General Standards Corporation, modified COTS products for military, aerospace, and avionics applications from Targa Systems, Software Defined Radio solutions from Pentland Systems and high quality storage solutions from DNF Storage.

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