These FPGA boards are the first from Annapolis to offer an Analog Interface Mezzanine Site. This site can be populated with a direct RF digitization mezz, or a 3rd party analog superheterodyne tuner to allow digitization of 18+GHz signals. An integrated tuner delivers much lower SWaP-C than a separate standalone tuner, while maintaining the ability to upgrade the tuner and digitizer/processor separately.
In addition to two Gen 3 Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC FPGAs, an on-board Xilinx MPSoC provides high performing yet low power self-hosting capability thanks to the power-efficient ARM cores.
For maximum flexibility, the 3XR0 can be built to support SOSA and/or VITA 65 backplane slot profiles architectures.
The 3XR0 is hot swappable, allowing for more system reliability. This feature is unique to Annapolis and was developed because our experience with OpenVPX systems has shown it invaluable so a whole chassis does not need to be shutdown to remove a single board.
Annapolis’ powerful BSP options include 40/100GbE IP and both VxWorks 7 and Linux support.