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CHAMP-AV IV Quad PowerPC 7447A/7448

The CHAMP-AV IV is the third generation of quad PowerPC DSP board with the QuadFlow architecture providing high bandwidth connections between four 7447A/7448 processors. Each  processor, capable of up to 10 GFLOPs peak, is equipped with its own bank of DDR SDRAM with 2GB/sec peak bandwidth. Processors are interconnected via 100MHz PCI-X busses. Utilizing the QuadFlow ability to handle up to four simultaneous transfers, the AV IV can deliver up to 3.2GB/sec of on-card inter-processor bandwidth. Linux  BSP from Curtiss-Wright 

The CHAMP-AV IV is designed to integrate with next generation network architectures, with a separate Gigabit Ethernet connection to each processor.

Large DSP systems are supported by CWCEC's scalable computing solution that is founded on our Inter-Processor Communications (IPC) software. IPC provides applications with hardware abstraction, allowing all task-to-task communications to have a consistent interface, removing dependencies on operating system, local architectures, and interconnect technology. IPC makes use of CWCEC's StarFabric technology that provides the board-to-board communications for multi-slot systems.  The CHAMP-AV IV may be fitted with one or two StarFabric interfaces with the addition of the StarLink II StarFabric PMC module.CHAMP logo 

Pre-configured systems using CHAMP-AV IV's,  CHAMP-FX FPGA compute engines and Single Board Computers are available via Curtiss Wrights PowerMatrix family of integrated systems.

Features

  • Quad PowerPC™ 7447A/7448 processors at up to 1.25 GHz
  • 64 Kbytes L1 and 1 Mbyte (7448) L2 internal caches operating at core processor speed
  • Up to 512 Mbytes DDR-250 SDRAM with ECC per processor (2 Gbytes total)
  • 256 Mbytes Flash with write protection
  • 128 Kbytes NVRAM
  • QuadFlow architecture with 3.2 GB/s peak on-board throughput
  • Each processor has Gbe connection to on-board GbE switch
  • Two ports from GbE switch routed to backplane
  • VME interface with 2eSST support
  • Support for two 64-bit, 100 MHz PCI-X mezzanine modules (PMC-X)
  • Four EIA-232 serial ports, one per processor node
  • Support for StarFabric PMC modules with differential routing to backplane
  • Multi-board synchronous timer
  • Eight discrete LVTTL I/O signals, 2 selectable as interrupt inputs
  • VxWorks® 6.x & 5.x BSPs 
  • Linux SDK from Curtiss-Wright (2.6 kernel)
  • Green Hills INTEGRITY® BSP
  • IPC inter-processor communications library
  • Gedae graphical development environment support
  • Continuum Vector optimized AltiVec DSP function library with VSIPL support
  • Range of air and conduction-cooled ruggedization levels available