Could the ACHILLES ARRIA® 10 SoC SoM be the Right Module for Your Application?

The Achilles ARRIA® 10 SoC SoM board from REFLEX CES is the most integrated and full featured Arria 10 SoC system-on-module currently available in the market.

The Achilles features an ARM dual-core Cortex-A9 MPCore and up to 660KLEs of advanced low-power FPGA logic elements. It combines the flexibility and ease of a CPU with the parallel processing power of an FPGA, and is available in three different module types: Lite version, Turbo version and Indus version

Some of the main features include a highly integrated Intel Arria 10 SoC module, 270 or 660 KLE, commercial or industrial temperature grade, dual mode as a system-on-module or FMC carrier board and dual FMC capability.

Achilles is available as an instant dev-kit, which unites the Arria 10 SoC SoM with a starter board for quick prototyping and application testing. 

The target markets include Automotive, Video Broadcast, Machine and Intelligent Vision, Industrial, Military, Test & Measurement and Medical.

Take a look at the official Achilles ARRIA® 10SoC SoM Board promotional video.

You can also take a look at the producton our website for further information.

Why You Should Consider Using a Time Server in Your Network

 

One of our newest product lines runs the precision timing gamut from master clocks and digital displays right through to analog clocks and time servers.

Time servers are a key technology for many of our customers because proper network time synchronisation is an essential part of both monitoring and resolving issues within their network. Accurate timestamping is key to root-cause analysis, allowing users to establish when problems occurred and to find patterns within the data. If devices on the network are out of sync by even just a few milliseconds it can be very difficult to determine the sequence of events.

A time server is a clever little bit of kit that reads the time from a reference clock and sends the information to its clients using a computer network. The time server itself can be an internet time server, or a local network time server depending on the facility and user requirements.

Internet time servers can use a variety of well-defined protocols to distribute and sync time across the network; the most well-known and widely used of which is the Network Time Protocol (NTP) which has been in operation since 1985. 

The Masterclock NTP100 family of NTP time servers provide accurate timing to networks and conform to NTPv2 (RFC 1119), NTPv3 (RFC 1306) and NTPv4 (RFC 5905). Each NTP100 device can operate on a local area network (LAN) or act as an enterprise-wide source for legally-traceable time and date distribution, depending upon your network configuration requirements. 

Masterclock NTP servers are compatible with IPv4/IPv6 networks and offer AES256 SSH encryption, as well as MD5 authentication, for secure communications. All models are also available with an internal OCXO for increased holdover stability.

Our knowledgeable engineering team is available to discuss your time server requirements. Please contact us by email : info@sarsen.net or give us a call - 01672 511166 and we'll be happy to answer any questions you have regarding time servers, Masterclock or any of our other product lines.