Embedded Digest April 2008

April 2008

Dear Valued Customer,

Welcome to the current edition of the Embedded Digest. This monthly letter brings you up to date with recent news at VSYSTEMS, from product announcements to upcoming events within the embedded computing market. In this issue, we highlight:

6U VPX/VPX-REDI Quad-Core PowerPC Multi-Processing Engine (MPE730)
6U VPX/VPX-REDI Single Board Computer (SBC731)
2-4 GB DDR2 SDRAM Buffer Memory XMC (MM-6171)
Pentek 7150
Acromag: PMC-VSX95
Application Note: Integrated VXS SIGINT Digital Receiver/Processor System

6U VPX/VPX-REDI Quad-Core PowerPC Multi-Processing Engine

For radar, sensor and signal processing applications, the MPE730 combines a multi-processor design with high-speed serial interconnects and flexible expansion I/O.

Dual Freescale MPC8641D Processors with support for 1.0, 1.33 and 1.5GHz clock rate
Dual PMC/XMC Mezzanine sites with support for PCI Express (PCIe) x8, PCI/PCI-X & Serial RapidIO x4
Up to 2GB of DDR2 memory per processor, or 4GB of memory per board
Full Serial RapidIO fabric connectivity
Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA System Control Node for chassis management
Air and conduction-cooled variants
Read more about the MPE730 >> | Read the Press Release >>

MPE730

6U VPX/VPX-REDI Quad-Core PowerPC Multi-Processing Engine

6U VPX/VPX-REDI Single Board Computer NEW

The SBC731 is a single or dual-core PowerPC based SBC with flexible I/O through dual PMC/XMC sites, Serial RapidIO and PCI Express fabrics. The SBC731 is targeted at host boards applications such as mission and control processors.

Freescale MPC8641D Processor with support for 1.0, 1.33 and 1.5 GHz clock rate
Dual PMC/XMC Mezzanine sites with support for PCIe x8, PCI/PCI-X & Serial RapidIO x4
Up to 2GB of DDR2 memory
Full Serial RapidIO fabric connectivity
Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA System Control Node for chassis management
Read more about the SBC731>> | Read the Press Release >>

SBC731

2-4 GB DDR2 SDRAM Buffer Memory XMCNEW

The MM-6171 XMC is a Buffer Memory XMC that provides high-speed buffering capabilities for DSP systems. The XMCs have a variety of uses, such as high-speed temporary storage, expanded system memory, interleaving, or for use with data aggregation and warehousing.

2-4 GB High-speed DDR2 SDRAM
x4 Serial RapidIO^® or x8 PCI Express^® interfaces
Full-featured DMA engine
Rugged convection and conduction-cooled versions
Read more about the MM-6171 >> | Read the Press Release >>

MM-6171

PENTEK 7150

The 7150 is a quad, high-speed dataconverter suitable for connection as the HF or IF input of a communications system. It features x4 200 MHz, 16-bit A/Ds supported by an array of data processing and transport resources ideally matched to the requirements of high-performance systems. It uses the popular PMC format and supports the emerging VITA 42 XMC standard for switched-fabric interfaces.

Complete software radio interface solution
VITA 42.0 XMC compatible with switch fabric interfaces
x4 200 MHz 16-bit A/Ds
1.5 GB of DDR2 SDRAM
2 Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs
Up to 2.56 seconds of data capture at 200 MHz
LVDS clock/sync bus for multi-module synchronization
32 pairs of LVDS connections to the Virtex-5 FPGAs for custom I/O on P4
Read more about the 7150>>

7150

Acromag PMC-VSX95

User-Configurable Virtex-5 FPGA Modules with Plug-In I/O. Acromag’s PMC-VSX boards feature a reconfigurable Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA enhanced with multiple high-speed memory buffers and a high-throughput PCI-X interface. Field I/O interfaces to the FPGA via the rear J4/P4 connector and/or with optional front mezzanine plug-in I/O modules. The result is a powerful and flexible I/O processor module that is capable of executing your custom instruction sets and algorithms.

PCI-X bus 100MHz 64-bit interface
64 I/O or 32 LVDS lines direct to FPGA via rear (J4)
Plug-in I/O modules are available for front mezzanine
FPGA code loads from PCI bus or flash memory
2 banks of 256Kb x 32-bit dual-ported SRAM and 32Mb x 16-bit DDR2 SDRAM
Supports dual DMA channel data transfer to CPU/bus
Read more about the PMC-VSX95 >>

PMC-VSX95

Application Notes, Whitepapers, Articles and Resource Information

Application Note: Integrated VXS SIGINT Digital Receiver/Processor - DRS Tuner & VMETRO DSP Engine
This application note describes an integrated solution combining a high-performance digital receiver from DRS Signal Solutions and a high-performance data processing solution from VMETRO. This combination of Digital Tuner and VXS DSP engine demonstrates a low-risk approach to the development of Signals Intelligence and Electronic Warfare systems that are deployed in air and rugged conduction-cooled environments. This combination reduces integration risk by providing a reliable, high-performance system with a high throughput data interface between the tuner and signal processing hardware.
Article: VME & its Follow-Ons Solve ELINT problems
Converting the analog world to digital has been a driving force behind signal-intensive computing for decades. The real world is analog while computing, for the most part, is digital. Military applications, like radar or video imaging, are attempting to create a very precise digital picture of real-world data in greater detail using higher resolution sensors and cameras that can produce orders of magnitude more data than previous-generation acquisition devices. Application requirements have driven and continue to drive the need for more processing and communication bandwidth.
Technology Resources: Freescale Power Architecture™ MPC8641D | FMC (VITA 57) | VPX/VPX-REDI
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