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VPX3-450 VPX FPGA

The VXP3-450 is designed to used in either a single-board configuration, or in multi-board configurations with other VPX3-450 boards or the VPX3-127 Single Board Computer (SBC) with a high-speed PCI Express serial switching fabric. All platforms utilize Curtiss-Wright's Continuum Software Architecture (CSA) to insure compatibility and user code commonality across platforms.

The VPX3-450 is supported by the Continuum FXtools design kit. The FXtools design kit includes the complete Continuum Firmware and BSP package for the PowerPC with extensions for VPX3-450 specific functionality, as well as highly-optimized IP blocks for such features as the memory and high-speed serial interfaces, control bus, intra-FPGA switching fabric, and so on. These blocks, all designed for optimal performance and qualified across the entire rugged temperature range of the VPX3-450, removes much of the risk associated with FPGA development and can significantly improve a project's time-to-deployment with no performance sacrifice. FXtools also includes a SystemVerilog (IEEE 1800™) based simulation test bench with full bus functional models and scripting support.

Priority Signature Support is available for this product.  See the Technical Support fact sheet for details. 

Features:

  • 3U VPX-REDI
  • One Xilinx® Virtex®-5 Platform FPGA (LX155T, or SX95T)  
  • 256 Mbytes DDR2 SDRAM attached to the FPGA, 2.2 GBytes/sec peak bandwidth
  • 18 Mbytes QDR-II+ SRAM attached to the FPGA in two banks, 4.4 GBytes/sec peak bandwidth per FPGA
  • 1 GHz 8640D dual-core processor with 1 Gbytes of DDR2 SDRAM in two banks 
  • XMC mezzanine site
  • Ob-board PCI Express switch with 4-lane connectivity to the PowerPC, the FPGA, the mezzanine site, and a 4-lane port to the backplane
  • One additional 4-lane backplane fabric port to the PowerPC.  May be either PCI Express or Serial RapidIO
  • Two 4-lane MGT ports to the backplane
  • 256 Mbytes Flash for PowerPC or FPGA code or user files 
  • Support for ChipScope Pro and JTAG processor debug interfaces
  • Continuum FXtools developer's kit offers Continuum Firmware and BSP, 450-specific software libraries, BIT, highly-optimized IP blocks, reference designs, and a scriptable simulation testbench
  • Low and high temperature-qualified IP blocks
  • Air-cooled and conduction-cooled versions

The VPX3-450 expands Curtiss-Wright's growing family of 3U VPX-REDI products by bringing FPGA-based computing hardware to this versatile new form factor.  The VPX3-450 combines the tremendous computing power of a Xilinx® Virtex® -5 FPGA with the high-performance floating-point capabilities of the Freescale 8640D dual-core PowerPC™ processor to bring unprecedented DSP capabilities to small form factor applications. With large DDR2 SDRAM and fast QDR-II+ SRAM blocks, and several on-board and off-board high-speed serial links, the VXP3-450 FPGA node provide a balanced mix of processing capabilities with memory, inter-FPGA, and off-board bandwidths.  The VPX3-450 also offers an XMC site, giving system integrators the flexibility to add I/O mezzanines or additional FPGA processing in the form of the XMC-442 FPGA mezzanine board.
 
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