Fiber Optics

1000Base-X GigE Fiber Link Project Rescue

AspenLogic — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 00:37:47 +0000

Rescued customer and prevented their loss of a major government contract by quickly assessing the defects in the implementation of their Gigabit Ethernet (1000Base-X) fiber optic link. Proposed and delivered a start-from-scratch implementation of their Data Capture System. Participated in daily stand up meetings while also managing junior engineer, coding new VHDL, debugging multiple PCBs with Virtex-6 LX240T devices on each, interfacing with software development, and supporting government site testing of new hardware, firmware and software.

Custom Interface to High Frame Rate Camera

AspenLogic — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 00:33:07 +0000

Developed an 80 MHz Cameralink dual medium interface for the Xenics Cheetah-640CL which was the world's fastest IR camera. This project also required the design of VHDL interface code for talking with peripherals connected to a TB-6V-LX550T-PCIEXP. It communicated using the Xilinx Aurora protocol over two sets of four 3.125 Gbps fiber optic links to Virtex-6 SX475T and SX315T populated XMC cards. Co-designed the architecture and VHDL implementation strategy for the entire system.

Integrated Xilinx IP to Form Custom Multi-Channel Fiber Optic Comm System

AspenLogic — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 00:24:06 +0000

ASPENLOGIC® integrated three pieces of Xilinx IP to form a stunning data capture and processing engine for its client. 2.5 Gb/s Fiber optic connections between custom, multi-channel ADC/DAC boards and a COTS Avnet evaluation board with a Virtex-5™ SX95T device operating at 250 Mhz delivered high bandwidth connectivity to the proprietary processing engine. The VHDL was designed to replicate a variable number of processing modules and automatically connect them to a variable number of bidirectional Aurora protocol links utilizing SFP optical fiber transceivers.