Cambridge Pixel has introduced the HPx-200e PCI Express-based primary radar acquisition card.
The supplier recognises the growing adoption of the PCI Express bus as the primary motherboard-level interconnect on modern PCs.
"The PCI Express bus is present on virtually all modern PCs - and is being used increasingly in industrial applications – so it makes strategic sense for us to support it,” said David Johnson, Cambridge Pixel’s managing director.
The HPx-200e card extends the product family, which already includes radar input cards in PCI and PMC form factors, to provide a x1 lane PCI Express option.
“We are committed to updating and extending its range of radar acquisition products to offer up-to-date solutions on all relevant form factors," said Johnson.
The card supports multiple analogue and digital radar inputs, in addition to trigger and azimuth (ACP/ARP and parallel data) signals. The card also provides a capability to detect missing signals to provide software alarms for loss of triggers or azimuth data.
The card supports a range of signal types and voltages, allowing connection to a diverse range of commercial and military radar types including those from Furono, Kelvin Hughes, Terma, JRC, Koden, Sperry, Raytheon, as well as specialist military radars.
Capturing a single video input at 12-bits or 2 channels at 8-bits each, the HPx-200e uses an FPGA to provide initial pre-processing of the radar video before transferring the video data to the driver software running under Windows or Linux.
For development there is a C/C++ board support library and the SPx software development kit for custom development of radar servers and clients.
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