Sarsen Technology and Annapolis Micro Systems Announce Partnership

Annapolis Micro Systems Announces the Appointment of Sarsen Technology Ltd as its Exclusive Distributor in the UK and Ireland

Sarsen Technology is pleased to announce that it has been named by Annapolis Micro Systems as their exclusive sales and marketing partner in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Based in Maryland, USA, Annapolis Micro Systems designs, manufactures, and programs high-performance COTS and modified COTS FPGA-based boards and systems for challenging data acquisition, digital signal processing, and data storage applications. Their designs maximise FPGA real estate and available pins per package to yield maximum performance as well as being rugged and reliable, meeting harsh environmental requirements.

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Nigel Norman, MD Sarsen Technology says, “With the addition of Annapolis to the product line Sarsen Technology is now positioned as a leading supplier of embedded COTS technology to all of the UK Mil/Aero primes.  Our key customers have been asking us for new and innovative FPGA solutions for synthetic aperture radar, software defined radio and signal intelligence applications.  The new generation of Xilinx RFSoC FPGA devices is especially exciting.  Annapolis Micro Systems has the design and manufacturing expertise to meet the technology needs of our most demanding customer applications.”

“Due to the Sarsen relationship, the UK and Ireland are poised to become our largest market outside North America,” says Noah Donaldson, Annapolis Micro Systems Chief Technology Officer. “Our partnership with Sarsen gives our UK and Ireland customers an experienced and knowledgeable local liaison for providing responsive technical service and support.”

Since their inception in 1982, Annapolis Micro Systems has become a leader in reconfigurable computing systems. Their products are designed for advanced HPC, ISR, and multi-function EW applications, including phased array radar, cybersecurity network processing, DRFM, beamforming, sensor processing, wireless communication, and radar signal processing.

For more information about the new relationship and how it could benefit your application please contact Sarsen Technology on +44 1672 511166, or email info@sarsen.net

BittWare 6U VPX Platform for Electronic Warfare and Radar Applications

BittWare’s EW & Radar Development System is a complete development and testing platform specifically designed for, you guessed it, electronic warfare and radar applications.

The single-slot OpenVPX system includes a BittWare Stratix V FPGA-based 6U VPX board along with a rear transition module for convenient I/O access, and arrives tested and configured, speeding up the development process for time-critical applications.

The platform includes:

• 19” 2U rackmount enclosure
• 1-slot backplane
• BittWare Stratix V FPGA-based 6U VPX board
• 4-channel, up to 5 GSPS, 8-bit ADC
• 2-channel, 5.6 GSPS, 14-bit DAC
• 6U VPX rear transition module for access to VPX I/O
• BittWorks II Development Tools

It also includes two VITA-57 FMCs for high bandwidth data transfer to and from the FPGAs on the S56X board. An ADC FMC provides 1, 2, or 4 8-bit A/D channels at up to 5 GSPS, directly to one of the S56X FPGAs. A DAC FMC provides 2 14-bit D/A channels at 5.6 GSPS, directly to the second FPGA on the S56X.

The BittWare EW & Radar Development System will be available for demos in the UK from mid-November. Please contact us if you would like to see the system put through its paces!

Email - info@sarsen.net 
Tel - +44 1672 511166

Some of the Coolest Embedded Applications supported by Sarsen Technology! (And these are just the ones we can tell you about....!)

September 5^th marks the birthday of 2 of the greatest gadget users in cinematic history - Batman and James Bond. 

Well, Michael Keaton and George Lazenby. 
But you get the point.

From jet packs to cryptographic sequencers; from the fully loaded Aston Martin to the Tumbler, these guys have some of the coolest tech around.

Here at Sarsen we represent manufacturers who had a hand in some pretty cool tech themselves!

Underwater Vehicle Controller: A major university marine research centre successfully completed sea trials of a deep water ROV that uses on-board UEIPowerDNA Cube and I/O hardware/ software to provide dynamic control of 5 forward/reverse thrusters (2 horizontal, 2 vertical, and 1 lateral), auxiliary system control, temperature/electrical system supervision, and an interface to the data telemetry equipment.

UEI unfortunately havent supported Batman directly, but we're waiting for the call.....

The ROV and associated surface vessels are capable of operating the ROV at depths up to 1000 meters.   

One of BittWare’s long-time customers designs stealth radar imaging systems for the military, among other applications. When they first approached BittWare over a decade ago, they required portability for ground-based radar in the field, but also needed to ensure that their system could provide high-speed data acquisition with the ability to perform highly complex data analysis in real-time, along with the flexibility to use the same design in aircraft and ship imaging. BittWare’s COTS hardware based on Analog Devices’ floating-point DSPs was the perfect fit, as it provided the necessary high-end digital signal processing, but was also available on multiple form-factors, ensuring that the same design could be ported to various applications. Throughout the more than decades-long relationship, three generations of BittWare products have been used in these applications.

Not quite a jet pack, but the SoloTrek is a practical solution to individual vertical take-off and landing flight which holds promising applications in the military, homeland security, commercial and civilian markets. Using readily available fuel, SoloTrek can hover for up to 1.5 hours, reach speeds of up to 81 mph, and traverse distances of up to 115 miles. 

The SoloTrek needed a very compact, lightweight, low-power, fanless computer with a variety of I/O options. The computer also had to be extremely reliable, since lives could depend on its continuous operation. A PC/104 board and expansion modules from VersaLogic fit the bill, with their high reliability, small 3.6" x 3.8" footprint, low power consumption and significant expansion capability.

So if you want your project to be James Bond worthy, pick up the Batphone and give us a call on +44 1672 511166!

Alfred and Q (a.k.a Robbie and Tim!) are here to help!