Conduant Corp | Adding a Conduant StreamStor® Recorder to a Xilinx FPGA Board

Conduant has written an easy to digest app note (with pictures) discussing the significant benefits of adding one of their StreamStor-based Cobra recorders to a Xilinx FPGA module. 

Why Should I Read It?

Xilinx FPGAs are used on a wide variety of boards with PCI Express and optical interfaces that can be used for a wide range of user-defined applications. Some of these applications may produce a high-speed stream of data to be recorded while others may require the injection of a continuous-speed data stream.

Conduant's Cobra Recorder/Player is designed to record and/or play back real-time data streams and is capable of sustaining very high data rates. It is easily optically interfaced with many different Xilinx boards and is the perfect companion product where this capability is needed.

Conduant StreamStor® can record or play back real-time data streams at rates up to 20 GB/s (160 Gb/s or 1 Terabyte every 50 seconds) regardless of the type of data (RF, RADAR, imaging, etc.). This application note focuses on the optical connection. Since StreamStor® products are designed with Xilinx FPGAs, they are highly configurable and easily interface with Xilinx development boards or other Xilinx-based designs.

Almost any Xilinx development board that has high-speed serial optical lanes can connect with StreamStor® using one of many different protocols (Aurora, Interlaken, Serial RapidIO, etc.).

Ok, Tell Me More...

This application note will show:

• It is easy to add a StreamStor® recorder/player to a Xilinx board.
• A method of adjusting between endpoints of different lane widths.
• A method of adjusting between transceivers of different types. 

About

App Note written by Phil Brunelle, Conduant Corp. Nov 5, 2019.

Founded in 1996 as Boulder Instruments, Conduant has quickly become a leader in ultra-fast, long-duration digital recording and playback systems. Conduant Corporation designs and manufactures real-time, long-duration digital recording and playback systems. In environments where large volumes of high-speed data are generated (e.g. radio astronomy, video imaging, radar, electronic surveillance), Conduant's StreamStor® products excel at error-free recording and playback

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Networks are gradually being upgraded with 5G equipment to replace existing 4G technologies. With this upgrade comes an expectation from users for a significant increase of network traffic data speed, but this creates a big challenge for operators... It's just not that easy to accelerate something twenty times!

Victor Puš, CTO Netcope Technologies, has written an easy to digest article about the specifics of building 5G networks.

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Article:

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On the other hand, telcos are scared of the costs of the upgrade of their networks. After all, to accelerate something twenty times is not that easy. At this point, public discussion is mostly led by new frequencies and about territorial coverage with the 5G signal. But equally, if not more difficult technical battle will be fought backstage, particularly about the aggregation of user traffic and its connection to the Internet from the telco network."