Mercury releases Echotek digital receiver

The Echotek DCM-V5-XMC digital receiver features the latest in A/D and D/A technology, allowing for high-speed/high-resolution data conversion while still preserving the quality of the original signal.

It implements either a Virtex-5 SX95T or LX155T FPGA, which can be programmed by the end user for customer-specific application features.

Each Virtex-5 FPGA is accompanied by both DDR-II-SDRAM and QDR-II-SRAM memory chips; the memory is available for buffering input data streams and for supporting computer-intense applications.

This set of flexible resources delivers capabilities such as multi-board coherency, making the product suitable for beamforming and direction-finding, as required by many radar, signals intelligence, electronics intelligence and communications applications.

The Echotek DCM-V5-XMC digital receiver is the first of a line of Virtex-5-based digital receivers planned for release by Mercury within the next calendar year.