VEGA Ultrafast Converters

Micram VEGA DAC/ADC chips are the only products of their kind providing real-time, streaming, unbuffered data conversion with flexible sampling rates of up to and above 30GS/s. VEGA enables the only practical, running 100G data transmission development environment available today. VEGA give 100GbE developers the power to make immediate, significant progress by providing an off-the-shelf, full-bandwidth 100G environment - without a custom chip run. VEGA is open, scalable and easily adapted to any application-specific requirements.

Following the success of our original digital to analog converter chip, the sold-out DAC25, Micram now offers a family of second generation VEGA DACs offering developers even more performance and design flexibility: VEGA DAC I with sampling rates up to 25GS/s, and VEGA DAC II which achieves sampling rates as high as 34 GS/s. Incorporating everything we've learned from the success of VEGA DAC25, our latest chips deliver extraordinary performance that meets the capabilities of the latest generation of FPGAs, including the Xilinx VIRTEX-5, VIRTEX-6 and Altera Stratix IV.

The ground-breaking VEGA ADC 30 is a 30 GS/s, 6 bit analog to digital converter with 20 GHZ bandwidth. Even greater performance can be achieved with two VEGA ADC 30 evaluation boards can be configured in a multi-channel interleave mode, enabling a effective 60 GS/s sampling rate @ 20 GHz bandwidth.

 

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The competitive advantage available to developers using VEGA is potentially game-changing. Already  up to four VEGA chips can be synchronized for an interleave mode using the CD15/CD17 versatile clock distribution module. See also the application note in the Literature section below.

VEGA converters will be delivering their unbeatable level of performance in a single BGA package that will interface with standard or custom specific DSP or FPGA data processors and provide a remarkably flexible and efficient core for system-level 100GbE products. There is no clearer path to the 100GbE market available today.