A Linux-based signal processing Intel64 architecture server, the SDR-2010 from Spectrum Signal Processing, hosts the high-performance PRO-2910 PCI Express- based carrier cards, each with dual XMC/PMC sites. This configuration gives all the flexibility and processing power of an embedded signal processing system while using an Intel-based server or PC as the host. The server has data rates of up to 400Mbyte/s between XMC sites and PRO-2910 boards, eight-lane PCIe Gen1 interfaces to the PC motherboard, a high-speed communications fabric, and customisable server features such as CPU, RAM, and high-speed disk options. The server is also available in a ruggedised rackmount chassis for deployment. The carrier card's data routing can be used to interface to the company's real-time FPGA, DSP, and I/O processing engines into industry-standard computing architectures. The module supports the company's Solano-based XMC modules such as the XMC-1131 ADC and XMC-2131 DAC modules, as well as third-party PMC modules. The server and carrier cards are used in electronic warefare, signals intelligence, including wideband spectral analysis and multi-channel direction finding, and military satellite communications. The two allow combinations of FPGA, DSP and GPP signal processing devices which can be used to support a range of software-reconfigurable applications.
