Abaco Systems announced another 3U VPX board designed to align to the SOSA™ standard. This demonstrates their commitment to standardizing system designs and making the lives of those who protect us a lot easier.

The VP831 is a 3U VPX high performance FPGA processing board featuring Xilinx® Virtex UltraScale+™ and Zynq® UltraScale+™ technology. A technology upgrade from the existing VP889 product aligned with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture™ (SOSA) technical standard, it is designed for the most demanding, mission critical military/defense and commercial applications such as communications, sensor processing, radar and electronic warfare just to name a few. 

Secure 
The Zynq UltraScale+ multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) brings advanced security to the forefront. The VP831 is capable of advanced encrypted bit streams and secure boot capability, enabled by Xilinx tools. This makes it an ideal tool for applications where IP security is a top concern. 

Heterogeneous Processing Capability 
Many RF and signal processing systems require both a streaming DSP with an FPGA and a general-purpose processor for decisions and control. Traditionally, these processing requirements were handled by separate processing cards. With the VP831, both functions in a single module are available by leveraging application and real-time processing ARM cores of the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC. Including the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC removes the need for a single board computer in some applications, providing customers an efficient way to maximize system performance while reducing complexity.

Flexibility 
You Need for the System You Want The VITA 57.4-compliant FMC+ site allows users to take advantage of Abaco’s industry-leading FMC I/O portfolio. Modular I/O built on an FMC+ standard interface enables engineers to easily upgrade to future technology without a complete system redesign. Availability of both low-latency LVDS data bus and JESD204B/C high speed serial interface makes the VP831 a versatile solution for many RF data acquisition applications. 

Offload Data More Efficiently 
The VP831 has VPX backplane interfaces aligned with the SOSA RF payload slot profile, supporting 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet data plane, PCIe Gen3 x4 expansion plane and Ethernet control plane connections to a host computer or other payloads. With the flexibility of different RF front-ends and data converters, even these modern high speed data connections might be too slow for a direct transfer. To overcome this challenge, the VP831 is available with an optional dual channel 100 Gigabit Ethernet fiber optic interface for transfers up to 25 GB/s. 

The VP831 is available with two cooling options, air or conduction, making it an ideal COTS product for early designs and capable of being deployed into operational assets. When paired with Abaco’s extensive portfolio of multi- architecture processing boards including SBCs, GPGPUs, and fabric switches the state of-the-art VP831 enables systems to be built from leading edge, interoperable components.