GT-3U-cPCI

Commercial & Rugged Hybrid Signal Processing 3U cPCI Board

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Board Architecture

FPGA

• Altera Stratix II GX FPGA supported by BittWare’s ATLANTiS™ FrameWork
• 4 full-duplex, high-performance, multi-gigabit transceivers
• Up to 132,540 equivalent LEs
• Over 6.7 Mbits of RAM
• Up to 63 DSP blocks, 252 embedded multipliers, and 8 PLLs

Processors

• 4 Analog Devices ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC DSPs
• 500 MHz, 2 ns instruction rate DSP core
• 3 GFLOPS (32-bit floating point) or 
12 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
• 4 4-bit LVDS link ports at up to 1 GByte/s
• Integrated I/O processor with 14 channel DMA controller

External Memory

• 1 GByte DDR2 SDRAM
• 64 MByte Flash memory for booting DSPs and configuring the FPGA

BittWare FINe™ Host/Control Bridge

• 32-bit, 33 MHz PCI interface
• GigE and RS-232/422 to rear panel
• Supports host- and Flash-based booting of Stratix II GX FPGAs and ADSP-TS201S
• Runs BittWorks server for full remote access via the BittWorks Toolkit

Link Ports

• 8 link ports extend from the ADSP-TS201S DSPs (two per DSP) to the Stratix II GX FPGA
• 8 link ports (two per DSP) dedicated for interprocessor communication
• Each link port runs at up to 1 GByte/s

Rear Panel I/O

• BittWare’s FINe™ Host/Control Bridge providing 10/100 Ethernet and RS-232/RS-422
• 36 LVDS pairs, 16 inputs and 20 outputs

Front Panel I/O

• 4 channels of high-speed SerDes transceivers (available on air-cooled boards only)

Size

• 3U single slot (160mm x 100mm)

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

• Analog Devices VisualDSP++
• Altera Quartus® II software

Accessory Boards


• BittWare GT3T rear transition module for rear panel I/O breakout