Venus – QC – LW-VQC1700-X4

Venus QC is an SDR platform with two independently programmable dual-channel wide band radio and high-end computing targeted for building advanced radio applications. The platform kit provides a jump start for designers of wireless, cable, EW radar or high-performance Radio applications. The platform offers a powerful TI DSP K2K SoC with 8 DSP core and 4 ARM cores along with many HW accelerations suitable for developing communication technologies. The DSP SoC is integrated to a Xilinx UltraScale FPGA over SRIO interface. There are two AD9361 devices from Analog Devices integrated to FPGA over LVDS interface. The Kintex class FPGA has resources to implement front end signal processing algorithms like DDC/DUC/Channel filters/ Crest Factor reduction/DPD etc. for up to 4 antenna systems. The FPGA drives several IO pins for accurate sample level control of elements. The platform is used for testing both TDD and FDD application using LTE UE and eNodeB waveforms.