CHAMP-AV5 Quad-core

The CHAMP-AV5  provides 64 GFLOPs of processing and FPGA-based algorithm acceleration for signal processing applications. Based on a pair of 2GHz dual-core 1682 processors from P.A. Semi, the CHAMP-AV5 doubles the performance of the previous generation while operating at similar or lower power levels.

The AV5 provides high memory and inter-processor bandwidth to complement the processors, each is equipped with two banks of DDR2 SDRAM with a peak bandwidth over 8GB/s. The CHAMP-AV5 QuadFlow Express architecture provides each processor with an 8-lane, 4GB/s PCI Express connection. Two PMC/XMC sites are available, served with 4-lane 2GB/s PCIe connections.

Signal processing algorithms can be greatly accelerated with the AV5’s optional user-programmable Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA. Featuring local high-speed QDR SRAM, the Virtex-5 communicates with the processors and XMCs with a 4GB/s PCIe connection.

Software Development for the CHAMP-AV5

The CHAMP-AV5 is supported with the Continuum suite of software development tools including board support packages, communications middleware, DSP libraries and multi-processor instrumentation and analysis tools.

Supporting VxWorks 6.5 and future releases, the CHAMP-AV5 BSP provides a complete set of functions to control the AV5 hardware features. Employing the Continuum Software Architecture standard, the BSP has common and portable APIs with all the latest generation Curtiss-Wright products.

The Continuum IPC communications middleware 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.

The Continuum Vector signal processing library provides a comprehensive set of DSP functions optimized for the 1682 VMX  floating point vector processor. The Continuum Insights visualization and instrumentation tools improve software development efficiency with system management and multi-processor real-time analysis.

The Continuum Insights visualization and instrumentation tools improve software development efficiency with system management and multi-processor real-time analysis.

The Continuum FXtools design kit provides highly optimized IP blocks for the Xilinx Virtex-5 and includes a SystemVerilog (IEEE 1800™) based simulation test bench with full bus functional models and scripting support.

Features

• Two  Power Architecture dual-core 1682 processors at up to 2GHz
• Up to 64GFLOPs peak computing performance
• Up to 2 Gbytes DDR2 SDRAM with ECC per processor
• 128MB boot Flash with write protection
• Up to 4GB Flash-based file storage
• Protected backup Flash
• 128 Kbytes NVRAM
• QuadFlow Express Architecture with  8GB/s on-board bandwidth
• Two external Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports:
• Each processor has two GbE ports to on-board GbE switch
• Two ports from switch to P2 connector on rugged cards
• One port to front panel, one to P2 on level 0 cards
• Cards can be daisy-chained to reduce usage of external switch ports
• Two  PMC/XMC (VITA 42.3) sites:
• 133 MHz PCI-X capable
• 8-lane PCIe interface
• 2GB/s transmit and 2GB/s receive bandwidth
• 64-bits I/O to P0/P2 via Pn4 connector
• Four EIA-232 serial ports
• Two EIA-422 serial ports
• Multi-board synchronous time-stamping feature
• Continuum power management features
• Temperature sensors
• VME64x, 2eVME, and 2eSST protocols
• Sixteen discrete LVTTL I/O signals
• Continuum Software Architecture firmware
• VxWorks® BSP
• Continuum Vector AltiVec/VMX optimized DSP function library
• Range of air and conduction-cooled ruggedization levels available