VMETRO offers VXS DSP card that blends dual-core PowerPC MPC8641D and Dual Virtex-5

July 11, 2007
HOUSTON, 11 July 2007. VMETRO in Houston announced the Phoenix VPF2 rugged COTS DSP processing card that integrates a Freescale MPC8641D processor, two Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs, and a VXS based high-speed serial inter-connect fabric.

HOUSTON, 11 July 2007. VMETRO in Houston announced the Phoenix VPF2 rugged COTS DSP processing card that integrates a Freescale MPC8641D processor, two Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs, and a VXS based high-speed serial inter-connect fabric.

The VPF2 is for high-bandwidth pre-processing and back-end processing in one 6U VME64/VITA 41 product for demanding DSP applications such as real-time video processing, surveillance, and radar.

The processing heart of the Phoenix VPF2 is a Freescale MPC8641D dual-core processor based on Power Architecture technology. The cores run as fast as 1.25 GHz with 2 gigabytes of memory to support operating systems such as VxWorks and Linux.

Integrated within the MPC8641D processor is an I/O sub-system with two Gigabit Ethernet ports, serial I/O, dual DDR/DDR2 memory controllers, VME interface, and independent x8 PCI Express links to the Xilinx FPGAs and the XMC/PMC site. The VPF2 has Ethernet options which support both RJ45 and optical interfaces or backplane I/O.

Closely coupled to the MPC8641D processor are two Xilinx Virtex-5 SX95T FPGAs, optimized for DSP performance, or LX110T FPGAs, optimized for high-performance logic.

With their on-chip serial transceivers, either of the Virtex-5 FPGA options provide high bandwidth off-board serial communications channels to processing and I/O sub-systems. Since the FPGAs connect to fast I/O streams, they can pre-process incoming data in real-time without bottlenecks.

The Virtex-5 FPGAs are for pixel-rate computation, digital down conversion, FFTs, filters and encryption. The FPGAs are user programmable and can be configured from flash memory. For more information contact VMETRO online at www.vmetro.com.

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