GT-6U-VME

Commercial & Rugged Hybrid Signal Processing 6U VME/VXS (VITA 41) Board

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Board Architecture

FPGAs

• 2 Altera® Stratix® II GX FPGAs supported by ATLANTiS FrameWork
• Up to 16 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 DSPs
• Up to 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 per DSP
• Integrated I/O processor with 15 channel DMA controller per DSP

External Memory

• Up to 3 GBytes of DDR2 SDRAM (6 banks, up to 512 MB each)
• 128 MBytes Flash memory for booting DSPs and configuring the FPGA

BittWare FINe™ Host/Control Bridges

• 32-bit, 33 MHz PCI interface
• GigE to front and 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 (666 MBytes/s each)
• 8 link ports (two per DSP) dedicated for interprocessor communication (1 GByte/s each)

Rear Panel I/O

• GigE to VME P2 (via FINe)
• 12 channels of high-speed SerDes transceivers to VME P0
• 47 LVDS pairs to VME P2
• RS-422 to VME P2

Front Panel I/O

• 4 channels of high-speed SerDes
• transceivers to Infiniband type connector RS-232/422

PrPMC+ Interface

• Compatible with standard PMC modules
• Additional connector (J4) provides 64 signals factory configurable to Stratix II FPGA or rear panel (can be used as 32 differential pairs)
• XMC site with 8 SerDes channels (4 to each Stratix II FPGA)

PCI-VME Bridge

• Tundra Tsi148 PCI-VME bridge with 2eSST support
• Interfaces VME64x backplane to on-board 64-bit, 33 MHz PCI local bus

Size

• 6U single slot (160mm x 233mm)

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 GTV6-BORT rear transition module for rear panel I/O breakout
• BittWare GXBO breakout board for front panel I/O access