TECHNICAL DATA SHEETDRF3182
3U VPX, 4Rx/4Tx, 51.2 GSPS Direct RF modulewith Intel® Stratix® 10 AX-Series SoC FPGA

Ideal solution for highperformance applications
with SWAP constraints▪ Flexible compute, high-speed
connectivity and frequency agility forradar, EW, and test and measurement
applications▪ Fast sample rate providing highinstantaneous bandwidths▪ Heterogeneous integration▪ Integrated, advanced data converters

The DRF3182 3U OpenVPX board is a 4Rx/4Tx, ultra-high-speed
data converter ideal for directly digitizing HF signals in radar,communications, and electronic warfare systems. The DRF3182’s
advanced capability removes the need to implement RF to IF down
conversion prior to digitization. The integrated data capture capability,combined with powerful processing from Intel’s 14 nm Intel Stratix 10
FPGA, make it uniquely suited for high-performance applications withsize, weight, and power constraints.
The advanced data converter technology included in the DRF3182 provides frequency
agility (tuning across the band) to enable systems to rapidly respond to an ever-changing
spectral environment. State-of-the-art on-chip interconnections and packaging
technologies provide lower latency and power than serial interfaces which use discrete
transceivers. The four Rx and four Tx interfaces on the front panel of the module,
combined with eight fat pipes to P1 and P2, provide impressive ingress/egress bandwidth
in a small, 3U form factor.

ADVANCED FPGA FUNCTIONALITY
Mercury’s processing modules are built around our EchoCore® FPGA IP to provide basic
infrastructure functionality right out of the box. Mercury facilitates the re-use of common
IP across FPGAs to optimize time-to-market and reduce development time. EchoCore IP
allows customers to focus on their application while building upon the groundwork
provided.
Mercury simplifies application integration by providing a standard control plane interface
using AvalonMM control plane connectivity. Mercury uses a simple AvalonSteam interface
for our data plane interfaces. Our customers can choose their tool of choice, such as
vendor-specific IPs, HLS, or RTL to generate signal processing algorithms. The cores arethen instantiated into a reserved user block and compiled into the FPGAs.

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SPECIFICATIONS

Humidity:

Memory4 GB DDR4 Total: 2 GB for FPGA fabric,
2 GB for HPS

3U OpenVPX Packaging
1 inch pitch
OpenVPX (VITA 65) encompasses:
VITA 46.0, 46.3, 46.4, 46.6, 46.11 andVITA 48.1, 48.2 (REDI)

Data Converters▪ Storage: 100% condensing

ADC: Four 10-bit ADC channels up to
51.2 GSPS
DAC: Four 10-bit ADC channels up to
51.2 GSPS

Ejectors
Class B

Programmable tunable Digital Up/DownConverters (two per port)

Data PlanesPCIe Gen 3 support and/or VITA 49.2

Backplane Interface
SLT3-SWH-8F-14.4.2 slot profile

High instantaneous bandwidth allowing
large portions of spectrum to be
directly digitized

VITA 46.11 IPMI controller
Sensor interface to monitor
temperature, voltage

Manufactured in an AS9100D facility

Product Environmental
Qualification Levels▪ Storage: 0 to 70,000 ft
Vibration:▪ Random: 0.1 g 2/Hz; 5 to2000 Hz, 1 hr/axis▪ Sine 10G peak; 5 to 2000 Hz, 1 hr/axis▪ Shock z-axis: 50 g; x and y-axes:80 g; (11 ms, 1/2-sine pulse,
3 positive, 3 negative)

ORDERING INFORMATIONPart number: 910-92081-03

Conduction-cooled, Rugged L3

ModelTemperature:

Processor
2753 logic elements▪ Operating: -40° C to +60° C (atmodule edge)

Quad core ARM processor▪ Storage: -55° C to +105° C

244 MB of on-chip memory▪ Max Rate of Change: 10° C/minIntel® Stratix® 10 AX-Series SoC FPGA

+1 978.967.1401 tel+1 866.627.6951 tel+1 978.256.3599 fax▪ Operating: 0 to 60,000 ft

VITA 47: Contact factory

Secure JTAG

50 Minuteman Road
Andover, MA 01810 USA

Altitude:Salt/Fog: Contact factory

Power sequencing

Corporate Headquarters▪ Operating: 5 to 95%,
non-condensing

Description
L3/conduction-cooled OVPXwith front I/O.

Ensemble
DRF3182

4 x 10-bit, 51.2 GSPS ADCs,
4 x 10-bit, 51.2 GSPS DACs,Intel Stratix 10 RFSIP,
4 GB DDR4 SDRAM.

International Headquarters
Mercury International

Learn more

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PO Box 584
CH-1212 Grand-Lancy 1Geneva, Switzerland

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