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The Quartz Series The Quartz® family is based on the Xilinx® Zynq® UltraScale+™ RFSoC FPGA. Quartz brings the performance and high density integration of the RFSoC to a wide range of different application spaces with a uniquely flexible design path. Quartz is available in standard form factors like PCIe and 3U VPX, or with the QuartzXM Carrier Design Kit, it can be deployed on application specific custom carriers. Designed to work with Pentek's Navigator® Design Suite tools, the combination of Quartz and Navigator offers users a streamlined path to IP development and deployment. |
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The Pentek Quartz architecture positions the RFSoC as the cornerstone of the design. All control and data paths are accessible by the RFSoC's programmable logic and processing system. The Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Gen 3 integrates eight RF-class ADCs and DACs into the Zynq FPGA fabric along with quad ARM Cortex-A53 and dual ARM Cortex-R5 processors, creating a multichannel data conversion and processing solution on a single chip.
"Immediately releasing products utilizing Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Gen 3 demonstrates our commitment to offering our customers the latest technology for their applications. The modularity of our Quartz product line enables us to quickly provide solutions in any form factor needed whether it's in the lab or in a deployed application."
- Bob Sgandurra, Pentek's director of Product Management
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The Quartz board family is pre-loaded with a suite of Pentek IP modules to provide data capture and processing solutions for many common applications. Modules include DMA engines, DDR4 memory controller, test signal and metadata generators, data packing and flow control.
The Quartz board family can be used out-of-the-box with the built-in functions requiring no FPGA development. The board comes pre-installed with IP for DFRM, triggered waveform and radar chirp generator, triggered radar range gate engine, wideband real-time transient capture, flexible multi-mode data acquisition and extended decimation.
The Quartz board family supports the VITA-66.4 standard providing eight 28 Gb/sec duplex optical lanes to the backplane. With two built-in 100 GigE UDP interfaces or a user-installed serial protocol, the VITA-66.4 interface enables gigabit communications independent of the PCIe interface.
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Navigator® Design Suite takes a new approach to solving FPGA IP and control software connectivity. Most modern FPGA-processing applications require development of specialized FPGA IP to run on the hardware, and software to control the FPGA hardware from a host computer. Even when "turnkey" solutions are delivered with complete FPGA IP and software libraries, as developers add their own custom-processing IP, new software needs to be created to control the custom IP functions. |
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Navigator® FDK (FPGA Design Kit) provides the complete IP for a specific RFSoC data acquisition and processing board. When the design is opened in Vivado’s IP Integrator, the developer can access every component of the Pentek design, replacing or modifying blocks as needed for the application. All blocks use industry standard AXI4 interfaces providing a well-defined format for custom IP to connect to the rest of the design. Each Navigator/RFSoC design includes User Blocks in the data-flow path, ideal for inserting custom processing IP. |
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Navigator® BSP (Board Support Package) allows software developers to work at a higher level, abstracting many of the details of the hardware through an intuitive API. The API allows developers to focus on the task of creating the application by letting the API, the hardware and IP-control libraries below it to handle many of the board-specific functions. Developers who want full access to the entire BSP library, enjoy complete C-language source code as well as full documentation. |
![]() | Pentek offers the Model 4801 Carrier Design Kit for users interested in designing their own carrier for the Model 6001 QuartzXM. The kit uses the Quartz carrier boards as a reference design. |
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The SPARK® Development Systems were created to save engineers and system integrators the time and expense associated with building and testing a development system. Each SPARK system is delivered with the Pentek board(s) and required software installed and equipped with sufficient cooling and power to ensure optimum performance. The SPARK systems are fully-integrated platforms for Pentek's board(s) in product families: |
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As a Certified Member of Xilinx's Alliance Program, Pentek has passed a comprehensive 320-point review of our technical, business, quality, and support processes and have committed engineers who completed the same rigorous training used by Xilinx Field Application Engineers worldwide. Pentek continues to demonstrate years of expertise with Xilinx devices and implementation techniques and consistently delivers high-quality products and services utilizing Xilinx programmable platforms. |
Quartz Family of Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Products |
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The Quartz® family is based on the Xilinx® Zynq® UltraScale+™ RFSoC FPGA. Quartz brings the performance and high density integration of the RFSoC to a wide range of different application spaces with a uniquely flexible design path. Quartz is available in standard form factors like PCIe and 3U VPX, or with the QuartzXM Carrier Design Kit, it can be deployed on application specific custom carriers. |
Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Products - ( top ) |
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Model | Description |
VPX 3U | |
Model 8257A | SOSA Aligned 1-Slot 3U VPX Development Chassis for Quartz Products |
Model 8257 | 1-Slot 3U VPX Development Chassis for Quartz Products |
Model 8256 | 3U VPX SOSA Aligned Development Chassis |
Model 5953 | 8-Channel A/D & D/A Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Gen 3 Processor - 3U VPX |
Model 5950 | 8-Channel A/D & D/A Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Processor - 3U VPX |
Model 5903 | High-Speed System Synchronization and Distribution Amplifier - 3U VPX |
Model 5553 | 8 Channel A/D & D/A Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Gen 3 Processor - SOSA Aligned 3U VPX |
Model 5550 | 8 Channel A/D & D/A Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Processor - SOSA Aligned 3U VPX |
Model 5503 | High-Speed System Sync and Distribution Amplifier - SOSA Aligned 3U VPX |
Small Form Factor | |
Model 6353S | 8 Channel A/D & D/A Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Gen 3 Processor - SFF Subsystem |
Model 6353L | 8 Channel A/D & D/A Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Gen 3 Processor - SFF Subsystem |
Model 6353 | 8 Channel A/D & D/A Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Gen 3 Processor - SFF |
Model 6350S | 8 Channel A/D & D/A Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Processor - SFF Subsystem |
Model 6350L | 8 Channel A/D & D/A Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Processor - SFF Subsystem |
Model 6350 | 8 Channel A/D & D/A Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Processor - SFF |
PCIe | |
Model 7053 | 8-Channel A/D & D/A Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Gen 3 Processor - PCIe |
Model 7050 | 8-Channel A/D & D/A Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Processor - PCIe |
QuartzXM eXpress Module | |
Model 6003 | 8-Channel A/D & D/A Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Gen 3 Processor - QuartzXM |
Model 6001 | 8-Channel A/D & D/A Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Processor - QuartzXM |
Model 4801 | QuartzXM Carrier Design Package |
![]() The SPARK® family are fully-integrated development systems for Pentek's software-defined radio (SDR) and data acquisition and I/O boards. The SPARK series was created to save engineers and system integrators the time and expense associated with building and testing a development system that ensures optimum performance of Pentek boards. |
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