VEGA Ultrafast Converters

Micram VEGA DAC/ADC chips are the only products of their kind. 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.

Unlike other DAC/ADC product architectures which force early design decisions that are costly and time-consuming to change, VEGA enables developers to rapidly prototype their ideas, test them and make revisions on the fly. With VEGA, developers can quickly assemble a highly productive, real-time 100G development system and start creating system-level product designs immediately.

DAC II

The VEGA DAC II digital-to-analog signal converter, with a sample rate of up to 34GS/s at 20Ghz bandwidth. Incorporating everything we've learned from the success of the sold-out VEGA DAC25, our latest chip delivers extraordinary performance that meets - and even exceeds - the capabilities of the latest generation of FPGAs, including the Xilinx Virtex5 and Altera Stratix IV.

For more information on the DAC II click here.

DAC 25

The VEGA DAC 25 is a digital to analog converter, originally designed as a demonstrator IC to prove the inherent high performance and functionality of the Micram library module chip architecture. The DAC 25 significantly exceeded its target specifications and now delivers >30 GS/s sampling performance at an analog bandwidth of 25 GHz, with ENOB of 5.5 bits.

The DAC 25 has been shipping to customers since late 2007 and is now available as a swappable module mounted on an evaluation board. Turn-key configurations of the DAC evaluation board paired with a Xilinx or Altera FPGA board are also available.

ADC 30

The VEGA ADC 30 is a 30 GS/s, 6 bit analog to digital converter which will be available in limited quantities by September 2009 (for information on how to obtain the fastest possible access to the ADC 30, click here). Two VEGA ADC 30 evaluation boards can be configured in a multi-channel interleave mode, enabling two-channel 60 GS/s @ >20 GHz performance in CY2009.

The Low Risk Path for 100GbE Development

The competitive advantage available to developers using VEGA is potentially game-changing. By mid-2010, 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.

For more on the VEGA path to 100GbE leadership, please read our brief VEGA white paper here.

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