TEK Microsystems Inc. in Chelmsford, Mass., is offering the JazzFiber PCI mezzanine card (PMC), a protocol-agnostic fiber optic PMC I/O module optimized for streaming I/O and signal processing. The device combines a 64-bit 133 MHz PCI-X host interface with channel density and throughput, onboard buffering, and FPGA-based cores for protocols and signal processing. A common FPGA architecture and software API enables applications to migrate between different JazzFiber solutions. JazzFiber is based on technology co-developed in commercial alliance between TEK Micro and QinetiQ RTES of the United Kingdom. The first JazzFiber protocol core supports ANSI/VITA 17.1 Serial FPDP-an open industry standard for sensor interface applications such as radar, sonar, signal intelligence, and medical imaging. The JazzFiber PMC provides four fiber optic transceivers operating as fast as 3.125 gigabits per second each, which can be configured as four independent interfaces or combined into one 4× link. For more information contact TEK Microsystems online at www.tekmicro.com.
