VMETRO announces Fiber-Optics with Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs in an XMC Module

VMETRO has announced a user programmable FPGA XMC/PMC module with fiber-optic transceivers. Offered in air- or conduction-cooled versions, the model XMC-FPGA05F incorporates Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA, 4 fiber-optic transceivers, four 128 MB banks DDR2 SDRAM memory, DMA controllers, and choice of interfaces. IP core for fiber-optic protocols such as Aurora, Serial FPDP, Serial RapidIO, or Ethernet can be loaded into FPGA to handle data flow through transceivers. Module is suited for applications such as remote sensor interfaces, data recorders, and embedded real-time distributed computing.