ADQ Development Kit for Custom Firmware in the FPGA of an ADQ-Series Digitizer
The ADQ Development Kit is a tool for developing custom firmware in the FPGA of an ADQ-series digitizer. SP Devices’ digitizers are characterized by a combination of high speed and high resolution.
The amount of data from the digitizer is thus very high. The most efficient way of processing the data is through a real-time implementation inside the FPGA on the digitizer. The ADQ Development Kit opens the FPGA for the implementation of real-time signal processing algorithms.
The ADQ Development Kit is available for all digitizer models.
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Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are an ideal fit for data acquisition systems as they offer unparalleled real-time signal processing power. Moving functionality from the host PC to the on-board FPGAs helps offload the PCs central processing unit (CPU) and relaxes data transfer rate requirements. This capability is key in achieving the performance levels needed in many of today's leading-edge applications.All our data acquisition and generation modules host Xilinx FPGAs and are delivered with pre-installed general data acquisition firmware (for ADQ7 and ADQ14 we refer to this firmware as "FWDAQ"). In addition to the standard/default firmware, we also offer optional firmware development kits (available for all models) and application-specific firmware packages (available for ADQ7 and ADQ14 only). More information about these below.
