Curtiss Wright Embedded Curtiss Wright

High-Speed Signal Acquisition

Analog & Digital I/O for the most challenging environments

Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has over 20 years experience in the design and production of top quality COTS signal acquisition hardware on VME and PMC platforms that can cope with the toughest operating environments. With an expanding product range spanning intelligent Analog I/O for frequency and time domain applications, Digital I/O, Synchro & Resolver technologies, we offer system solutions designed to operate in the extremes of temperature and vibration conditions.

Curtiss-Wright has great expertise in the art of analog design and providing reliable high performing products that are designed to operate in harsh environments offering key product features, as standard, to solve encountered data acquisition problems in radar, software radio and signal intelligence applications.

For an overview of our Analog I/O capablities click here for our fact sheet (registration required).

For a full cross reference of Pentland products download the pdf here. The table below also calls attention to prior Pentland part numbers along with the newer designation.

denotes latest generation products

Part Number Pentland Cross Reference Function

Form Factor

Input Channels

Output Channels

Additional Notes
Mezzanines
XMC-FPGA05D NA IO PMC/XMC Module XMC/
VITA-42

Range of front panel I/O personality modules (including
ADC, DAC, LVDS, RS-485/422 and Camera Link)

Range of front panel I/O personality modules (including
ADC, DAC, LVDS, RS-485/422 and Camera Link)
Xilinx Virtex-5 SX95T
FMC-520 NA Quad/Dual Channel Analog Ouput FMC/VITA 57 - Four analog output channels updating at 500MSPS, or two analog output channels updating at 1.0GSPS 775MHz output bandwidth
ADC513 NA Analog Signal Acquisition FMC/VITA 57 4 channels,  8-bit, up to 1.5GSPS/channel -  -
ADC512 NA Analog Signal Acquisition FMC/VITA 57 2 channels, 8-bit, up to 3GSPS/channel -  -
ADC511 NA Analog Signal Acquisition FMC/VITA 57 2 channels,  14-bit, up to 400MSPS/channel - Onboard clock
ADC510 NA MSPS Signal Acquisition FMC/VITA 57 2 channels, 12-bit, up to 500 MSPS/channel - Onboard and external clock sources
AD1520 NA GSPS Signal Acquisition XMC and PMC 2 channels,  8-bit, up to 1.5GSPS/channel - Xilinx Virtex-5 LX110T/SX95T FPGA
AD1500 NA GSPS Signal Acquisition XMC and PMC 2 channels,  8-bit, up to 1.5GSPS/channel - Xilinx Virtex-5 LX110T/SX95T FPGA
AD3000 NA GSPS Signal Acquisition XMC and PMC 1 channel, 8-bit, up to 3.0GSPS - Xilinx Virtex-5 LX110T/SX95T FPGA
XCLK1 NA Multi-channel Clock Generator XMC and PMC - Up to 6 phase matched RF outputs RF clock outputs to >2GHz
FMC-XCLK2new NA Multi-channel Clock Generator FMC/VITA 57.1 - Up to 4 phase matched RF outputs RF clock outputs to >2GHz
PMC-E2201 PMR200 MSPS Signal acquisition and digital receiver

PMC

2 simultaneous independent channels, 16-bit, up to 160 MSPS/channel

-

-
PMC-E2202 PMR400 160 MSPS Signal acquisition and digital receiver

PMC

2 or 4
simultaneous independent channels, 16-bit, up to 160 MSPS/channel

-

-
PMC-E2000 LM1 Analog input/analog output

PMC

8 channels, 200 kSPS/Channel, 16-bit resolution, simultaneous sampling

4 channels, 300 kSPS, 16-bit resolution, simultaneous sampling

-
PMC-E2001 LM7 Delta-Sigma Analog input/analog output

PMC

4 differential channels, 16-bits, up to 96 kHz

16 single-ended or 8 pseudo-differential channels, 16-bits, up to 108 kSPS

-
PMC-E2200 RAD2 MSPS Signal acquisition and digital receiver

PMC

2 simultaneous independent channels, 14-bit, up to 105 MSPS/channel

-

Virtex II XC2V3000
PMC-E2600 RAD-T2 MSPS digital transmitter

PMC

-

2 simultaneous independent channels, 14-bit, up to 200 MHz

Virtex II XC2V3000
ADC-MOD2 NA MSPS Signal Acquisition I/O Module  2 channels, 14-bit, up to 125 MSPS/channel - for use with the PMC-FPGA05 and PMC-FPGA03
DAC-MOD1 NA MSPS Analog output I/O Module  - 2 channels, 14-bit, up to 210 MSPS/channel for use with the PMC-FPGA05 and PMC-FPGA03
SFM NA Multi-channel Serial FPDP XMC and PMC 2 or 4 channels of 2.5Gbps fiber optic 2 or 4 channels of 2.5Gbps fiber optic  
DPIO2 NA Digital Parallel I/O PMC FPDP/FPDPII, LVDS, RS-422/485, PECL or custom interface FPDP/FPDPII, LVDS, RS-422/485, PECL or custom interface  
PMC-FPGA05 NA Determined by I/O Module PMC Based on I/O module or custom interface Based on I/O module or custom interface Xilinx Virtex-5 LX110
XMC-FPGA05F NA Multi-channel fiber-optic XMC and PMC 4 fiber-optic 4 fiber-optic Xilinx Virtex-5 SX95T, LX155T or FX100T
LVDS-MOD3 NA Low Voltage Differential Signalling I/O Module  64 I/O lines routed as 32 differential pairs 64 I/O lines routed as 32 differential pairs for use with the PMC-FPGA05 and PMC-FPGA03
LVDS-MOD4 NA Low Voltage Differential Signalling I/O Module  134 I/O lines routed as 64 differential pairs 134 I/O lines routed as 64 differential pairs for use with the PMC-FPGA05 and PMC-FPGA03
LVDS-MOD5 NA Low Voltage Differential Signalling I/O Module  Up to 52 differential pairs or 104 single-ended signals Up to 52 differential pairs or 104 single-ended signals for use with the PMC-FPGA05 and PMC-FPGA03
RS485-MOD2 NA EIA-422 and EIA-485 I/O Module  33 Channels of EIA-485/422B 33 Channels of EIA-485/422B for use with the PMC-FPGA05 and PMC-FPGA03
CAML-MOD3 NA Camera Link I/O Module  Base, Medium and Full mode Camera Link, up to 85MHz clock rate Base, Medium and Full mode Camera Link, up to 85MHz clock rate for use with the PMC-FPGA05 and PMC-FPGA03
PMC-FPGA03 NA Determined by I/O Module PMC Based on I/O module or custom interface Based on I/O module or custom interface Xilinx Virtex-II Pro XC2VP50
PMC-FPGA03F NA Multi-channel fiber-optic PMC 4 fiber-optic 4 fiber-optic Xilinx Virtex-II Pro XC2VP50
V1020 NA 10Gb Ethernet XMC and PMC 10Gbe 10Gbe Xilinx Virtex-II Pro XC2VP50 for aggregation of packet processing
VME
SVME-E2102 VGS932 Programmable multi-channel digital I/O

VME

32 opto-isolated channels

32 or 16 opto-isolated.  Mechanical or solid-state relays

-
SVME-E2104 VGS912 Multi-channel Analog I/O

VME

32 single-ended or 16 differential, 16-bits

4 single-ended, 16 bits

-

MM-6463D NA Multi-channel Analog I/O VME 6 chennels, 14-bit, up to 105MHz/channel - Up to 8GB memory,
Onboard 350MHz PowerPC processor
MM-6467D NA Multi-channel Serial FPDP VME 4 channels of 2.5Gb Serial FPDP 4 channels of 2.5Gb Serial FPDP Up to 8GB memory,
Onboard 350MHz PowerPC processor
MM-6466D NA Multi-channel Fibre Channel VME 4 channels of fiber channel 4 channels of fiber channel Up to 8GB memory,
Onboard 350MHz PowerPC processor
CSW1 NA Multi-channel fiber-optic VXS/VITA 41 Switch 12 channels of fiber-optic 12 channels of fiber-optic