TS-P36N Quad ADSP-TS101 PCI with FPGA I/O

The TS-P36N is a quad (clustered) TigerSHARC/ADSP-TS101 DSP PCI format module with a Xilinx Virtex-II FPGA co-processor and high-speed digital I/O port. This makes the TS-P36N ideal for radar, sonar and telecommunications applications. The PCI interface supports 64-bit/66MHz operations.

Flexible Multi-TigerSHARC DSP Architecture
Like SHARC DSPs the TigerSHARC DSP has dedicated inter-DSP communications known as link ports. Each TigerSHARC DSP has four such links enabling the DSP to have optimal datapaths to best suit the application. These include pipelines, two-dimensional arrays and hyper-cubes. To maintain greatest flexibility, the TS-P36N routes all the link ports (except for a boot pipeline) to an impedance matched header. Onto this header, a simple passive module can be plugged which routes and defines the board's link architecture. Link port routing modules improve reliability by reducing the number of external cables needed and providing maximum choice for an optimal configuration.

The routing module also provides off-board links. VMETRO provides modules for common routing topologies. Contact VMETRO for specific or custom requests.

User FPGA
A Xilinx Virtex-II FPGA (XC2V1000-4) is supplied to accelerate applications such as Viterbi decoding. Up to XC2V3000-4 devices can be fitted for applications requiring more gates. The FPGA shares the local bus with the TigerSHARC DSPs and so has access to the full bus bandwidth and board resources.

FPGA Based Digital I/O
For high-speed digital I/O the FPGA signals are routed to a header onto which a simple mezzanine can then be fitted. Since the FPGA can be used to handle the interface protocol, the mezzanine often only needs a front panel connector and line drivers - sometime little more than the connector is required. This allows for fast design turnaround at low cost. These modules can provide interfaces including camera link or simple parallel ports. Direct support from VMETRO includes FPDP and channel link together with example code for receive and transmit modes.

The TS-P36N is part of VMETRO's TigerSHARC DSP based product family which includes VME, compactPCI and PMC members.