Pentek is the leading DSP manufacturer offering powerful VME, VXI, VIM, MIX and PMC boards for data acquisition, software radio and digital signal processing featuring Texas Instruments C6x, C40 and Analog Devices SHARC DSPs. Pentek's data acquisition line is extensive and includes A/D's, D/A's, Digital Receivers and Transmitters, Digital I/O and much more. In addition to many high-speed mezzanine solutions like VIM (Velocity Interface Mezzanine), Pentek equips many products with high-speed interfaces like RACEway and FPDP (front panel data port).

Pentek has the complete system solution for design engineers with a combination of powerful DSPs, over sixty I/O choices plus flexible software products for fast and easy development. Pentek's COTS product line will surely have boards that engineers thought they would have to build themselves. Pentek also offers configuration services for customers who wish to receive a complete, tested system so they can begin application development immediately.

Hardware Solutions

Some of Pentek's flagship products are the Model 4290 Quad TMS320C6201 board with 6400 MIPS performance, the Model 4291 Quad TMS320C6701 board with 4 GFLOPS performance, and the Model 4292 TMS320C6203 board with 9600 MIPS performance. Pentek put software radio on the map with the industry's first software radio board solutions and continues to build to the expanding family of products. The Model 6532 is a 32-channel VIM-4 module Narrowband Digital Receiver with 32-Channel Narrowband Digital Receiver. In combination with any of the above C6x boards creates a powerful one-slot Software Radio Solution.

Software Solutions

Software offerings include Pentek's COTSware Designer Suite, ReadyFlow Board Support Libraries, and SwiftNet DSP Networking and Communications software. Our third-party offerings include TI Code Composer and Studio, DSPCon FTL File Transfer Language, 3L Parallel C/Diamond, Sinectonalysis Libraries and more. The COTSware Designer Suite is a collection of software to simplify and expedite system development. It includes the latest version of SwiftNet, the appropriate ReadyFlow libraries, plus code generation tools, debuggers, real-time operating systems, utilities and DSP libraries. The COTSware Designer Suite ensures that all Pentek and third-party software products have been tested and validated to work together.

ReadyFlow Board Support Libraries consists of C-callable functions for Pentek's boards. These libraries allow for quick start-up through application completion. Engineers can program at high, intermediate and low levels to meet various needs. ReadyFlow libraries are illustrated with numerous examples and include complete source code for all functions.

SwiftNet DSP Networking and Communications package was developed to create a simple interface for platform, tool and DSP board interoperability. It links your workstation and software development tools to your VMEbus DSP processors. It treats DSP processors as network devices and supports all possible combinations of platforms, tools and boards thereby improving the overall development environment. SwiftNet is based on the TCP/IP Protocol making development over the Internet or intranets possible. Workgroups with several workstations linked by Ethernet can also use it to access the same VMEbus card cage, so data can be shared with as many users as needed, wherever they are located.

Application areas include sonar, radar, software radio, telecommunications, signal intelligence, medical beamforming and more.