B2-AMC

Hybrid Signal Processing AdvancedMC

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Product Overview Product Features Technical Specs Block Diagram Compatible Products Ordering Info Datasheet

Board Architecture

FPGA

• Altera Stratix II (EP2S60, 90, 130, or 180)
• I/O routing and data processing via BittWare’s ATLANTiS FrameWork
• Up to 179,400 equivalent LEs
• Up to 9.3 Mbits of RAM
• Up to 96 DSP blocks
• Up to 384 embedded multipliers
• Up to 12 PLLs

Processors

• 4 Analog Devices ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC DSPs
• 600 MHz, 1.67 ns instruction rate DSP core
• 3.6 GFLOPS (32-bit floating point) or 
14.4 GOPS (16-bit fixed point) per DSP
• Native support for 32-bit floating point operations and for 8, 16, and 32-bit fixed point operations
• 24 Mbits of on-chip RAM per DSP
• Four LVDS link ports at up to 1 GByte/s
• Integrated I/O processor with fourteen-channel DMA controller

Link Ports

• 64 MB Flash memory for booting DSPs and configuring the FPGA
• 8 link ports extend from the ADSP-TS201S DSPs (2 per DSP) to the Stratix II FPGA
• 8 link ports (2 per DSP) dedicated for interprocessor communication
• Each link port runs up to 1 GByte/s

Fat Pipes Interface

• Stratix II FPGA (EP2S60, 90, 130, or 180)
• Up to 18 million system gates
• BittWare’s ATLANTiS FrameWork
• Network Interface via PMC Sierra
• QuadPHY SerDes configurable to support PCI Express, ASI, Serial RapidIO, GigE, and XAUI

Common Options Interface

• FINe™ bridge providing GigE
• System clocks with clock buffering and phase shifting

AMC Front Panel I/O

• 10/100 Ethernet and RS-232 via SharcFINe
• 11 pairs LVDS I/O (5 Rx, 1 Rx clk, 5 Tx)
• 24 General Purpose Digital I/O
• Optional 1x fibre transceiver (replaces AMC Fat Pipes)
• JTAG debug interface to all four DSPs and the FPGA

Power

• 25 W typical

Size

• AMC full-size, single width (74 mm x 180 mm) compatible with AMC specification

Development Tools

BittWorks Tools for 
Application Development

• BittWorks Toolkit - host, command, and debug tools for BittWare hardware

• BittWorks Porting Kit - source code and prebuilt ports for porting the BittWare Toolkit to other operating systems

• BWIO - software library for controlling I/O on BittWare boards

FPGA and DSP Code Development

• Altera Quartus® II software

Development Platforms

• MicroTCA Rapid Development Platform

Accessory Boards


• B2-Breakout (B2BO): peripheral user access to AMC front panel signals GP-DIO, LVDS, 10/100b Ethernet, RS-232, JTAG