Global Navigation Satellite System

Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits

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FFPGA-Based Prototype Platforms

FPGA

The prototyping board was developed for the digital signal processing of satellite data from GPS and Galileo. These digital signals are created by the analog RF-Frontend by means of an analog-to-digital converter.


Special features of the development platform

  • Stand-alone board for test installations and field application
  • High amount of programmable logic resources (FPGA, Virtex 5))
  • Flexible clock management
  • Sufficient storage capacity (volatile and non-volatile)
  • Data streams (“fallback reconfiguration mode” possible)
  • Simple configuration of the FPGA
  • Single size eurocard standard format (160 mm x 100 mm)
  • CompactPCI (cPCI) slot
  • Scalability of several boards