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Press Releases
March 11, 2008
BittWare Expands Rugged Hybrid Signal Processing Family
Conduction Cooled 6U VXS card is most recent addition to family of boards combining
Altera® Stratix® II GX FPGAs with high-end DSPs
SAN DIEGO, CA - March 11, 2008 - BittWare, Inc., the leading supplier of hybrid and FPGA-only signal processing board-level solutions based on Altera's FPGA technology, announced today at the Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum, the most recent addition to their family of ruggedized, hybrid signal processing boards. The GT-6U-VME (GTV6) is the latest board in a line of hybrid embedded solutions from BittWare, featuring Altera® Stratix® II GX FPGAs. The GTV6 features two Altera Stratix II GX FPGAs (2SGX90 or 130), two processing clusters consisting of two ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC® DSPs from Analog Devices, and up to 3 GBytes of DDR2 SDRAM memory. This conduction-cooled board is optimized for high-end, multi-processing applications, while also providing complete flexibility for future adaptability, ideal for existing and future military applications requiring embedded signal processing in a VXS/VITA 41 form factor.
"The current applications of our military customers - radar, sonar, unmanned vehicles, and SDR - require high-end signal processing coupled with complete flexibility, all in a rugged platform. Our GT family of ruggedizable, hybrid signal processing products addresses these needs, while also enabling our customers to adapt the hardware for future requirements, extending product lifecycles and hardware reuse," stated Darren Taylor, Senior VP of Sales & Marketing at BittWare. "With 5 GBytes/s of simultaneous external input and output, 14.4 GFLOPS of floating point processing power, and the ability to upgrade and adapt the design without any hardware modifications, the GTV6 provides an ideal solution for the highly complex world of military signal processing."
The GTV6 implements a dual BittWare ATLANTiS™ framework to interface between the FPGAs and DSPs. Implemented in each Altera Stratix II GX FPGA, ATLANTiS seamlessly integrates the FPGA and DSP processing, allocating the I/O bandwidth among the individual processing units, while also handling all on- and off-board data routing. The dual ATLANTiS framework provides 5 GB/s of continuous throughput and leaves ample FPGA resources for additional processing.
About the GT-6U-VME
At the heart of the GTV6 are two, state-of-the-art, Altera Stratix II GX FPGAs, each containing up to 132,540 equivalent LEs, 6.7 Mbits of RAM, 252 embedded 18x18 multipliers, 63 DSP blocks, and 8 PLLs. Each FPGA provides pre-, post-, or co-processing to complement one TigerSHARC processing cluster, while also enabling seamless routing of the TigerSHARC I/O at a rate of over 2 GB/s via BittWare's ATLANTiS framework.
The GTV6 also features two clusters of two ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC DSPs, which are interconnected by a 64-bit cluster bus running at 83.3 MHz. The ADSP-TS201 processor operates at up to 600 MHz, providing 3.6 GFLOPS of peak processing power. Because of its superscalar architecture, the ADSP-TS201 is also efficient at fixed-point processing, with each DSP supporting 14.4 BOPS of processing. Along with 24 Mbits of on-chip RAM, each DSP also boasts four high-speed LVDS link ports. Each full-duplex link port is comprised of a 4-bit transmit and a 4-bit receive channel, and can support up to 500 MBytes/s in each direction for a total maximum throughput of 1 GByte/s. Two link ports from each DSP are used to create an interprocessor communications ring, and the remaining two link ports are routed to the ATLANTiS FPGA.
BittWare's FINe™ bridge chip supports a 32-bit, 66 MHz PCI interface as well as Gigabit Ethernet, giving control plane access to the DSPs, Flash, and FPGA control registers via the VME bus (using the Tundra Tsi148 PCI-VME bridge) or GigE. The FINe also allows the DSPs low-overhead access to the host, Flash, and Ethernet.
BittWare offers comprehensive software support for the GTV6. The BittWorks software tools provide host interface libraries and a wide variety of diagnostic utilities and configuration tools, and BittWare's TS-Libs optimized libraries for TigerSHARC. BittWare's FPGA Developers Kit is also available with modules for ATLANTiS framework (I/O, routing, and processing), memory interfacing, and DMAs. Many third party tools are also available to support BittWare's hybrid embedded boards, including Altera's Quartus® II FPGA design flow tool and SOPC builder system-level design tool, and Analog Devices' VisualDSP++. Real-time operating systems available include Analog Devices' VisualDSP Kernel (VDK), and Enea's OSEck RTOS.
GT-6U-VME Availability
The commercial (air-cooled) version will begin shipping Q208; the ruggedized version will begin shipping Q308. Please contact BittWare for pricing.
About BittWare, Inc.
For over two decades, BittWare, Inc. has been a leading designer and manufacturer of FPGA computing and hybrid (FPGA and DSP) board-level solutions based on Altera’s FPGAs and industry leading DSP technology. The company provides the essential building blocks required by OEMs for developing and deploying their innovative systems in defense, communications, instrumentation, and life sciences applications. BittWare’s product offering addresses OEM needs from prototype-to-production and span a variety of platforms, including VPX, VXS, AMC, CompactPCI, FMC (VITA 57) and XMC. For more information on BittWare and its innovative FPGA and DSP solutions, visit www.bittware.com.
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