BittWare Octal TigerSHARC CompactPCI Board

BittWare T2-6U-cPCI Octal ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC CompactPCI Board Technical Overview The BittWare T2-6U-cPCI is a 6U CompactPCI board engineered for demanding computational tasks. It integrates eight Analog Devices ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC processors, each capable of operating at up to 600 MHz, delivering significant floating-point and fixed-point processing power. The architecture is further enhanced by two Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs, which provide extensive flexibility for I/O routing, protocol translation, and algorithm implementation. This board can offer high-bandwidth, low-latency off-board I/O capabilities and high-speed interprocessor communications, making it suitable for applications such as radar and sonar processing.

Technical Specifications

Processors

• Digital Signal Processors (DSPs): Eight Analog Devices ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC processors. * Clock Speed: Up to 600 MHz per processor. * Peak Processing Power (Floating-Point): 3.6 GFLOPS per DSP. * Peak Processing Power (16-bit Fixed-Point): 14.4 BOPS per DSP. * Total Processing Power (Floating-Point): 28.8 GFLOPS (8 x 3.6 GFLOPS). * Total Processing Power (16-bit Fixed-Point): 115.2 BOPS (8 x 14.4 BOPS). * On-chip RAM: 24 Mbits per DSP. * Architecture: Static superscalar with dual computation blocks. * Data Formats: Single-precision IEEE 32-bit, extended-precision 40-bit floating-point, and 8-, 16-, 32-, 64-bit fixed-point.
• FPGAs: Two Xilinx Virtex-II Pro (XC2VP30) FPGAs. * Functionality: Routing communications, protocol translation, algorithm implementation, I/O interfacing.

Memory

• SDRAM: Up to 512 MBytes of on-board SDRAM. The board features two large on-board banks of SDRAM.
• Flash Memory: Two 8 MByte banks of Flash memory for hostless boot.

Interconnects and Communications

• DSP Clusters: Processors are arranged in two clusters of four. * Cluster Bus: 64-bit, 83.3 MHz bus shared by the four processors in each cluster.
• LVDS Link Ports: Each DSP has four high-speed LVDS link ports. * Throughput: Up to 500 MBytes/s per channel (4-bit transmit and 4-bit receive) for a total maximum throughput of 1 GByte/s per link port. * Interprocessor Communication: Two link ports per DSP are used to form an interprocessor communications ring. * FPGA Connection: Remaining two link ports per DSP are routed to the ATLANTiS FPGA, operating at 250 MBytes/s (125 MBytes/s per channel).
• SharcFIN PCI-DSP Bridge: Two SharcFIN chips, one per DSP cluster. * Functionality: Provides low-overhead access to the host via the PCI interface, and access to peripherals like Flash and FPGA control registers. * Interface: 64-bit, 66 MHz PCI interface.
• ATLANTiS Architecture: BittWare's architecture combining TigerSHARC processing with Xilinx FPGAs for high performance and I/O bandwidth.
• RocketIO Transceivers: Eight RocketIO high-speed serial transceivers.

Interfaces

• CompactPCI (cPCI) Interface: 6U CompactPCI form factor. * PCI Interface: 64-bit, 66 MHz PCI interface via SharcFIN bridge.
• PMC Sites: Two PMC sites. * PMC+ Extensions: Support BittWare's PMC+ I/O extensions for adding additional processors and I/O capabilities.
• Off-Board I/O: High-bandwidth, low-latency, reconfigurable I/O capabilities. * Total Potential I/O Bandwidth: Greater than 6 GBytes/s. * FPGA to Off-Board: Each FPGA can communicate off-board at greater than 3 GBytes/s using its eight RocketIO transceivers and digital I/O blocks.

Software and Development Tools

• BittWorks II Toolkit: Provides drivers, libraries, utilities, and example projects for software and FPGA development. * Supported Platforms: 64-bit Windows and Linux. * API: Consistent, intuitive API for system integration. * Utilities: Includes BwHIL, BmcLib, BwConfig, BwServer, BwShell, BwMonitor for board control and monitoring.
• Development Environments: Support for Analog Devices VisualDSP++ and potentially third-party tools like SDL's DSPdeveloper with MATLAB integration.
• Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS): Support for Analog Devices' VisualDSP Kernel (VDK) and Enea's OSEck RTOS.

Physical

• Form Factor: 6U CompactPCI. Why Choose Aumictech for the BittWare T2-6U-cPCI Octal ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC CompactPCI Board? At Aumictech, we specialize in supplying high-end signal processing and embedded computing equipment. Whether you need solid TigerSHARC processing for complex algorithms, flexible FPGA-based I/O for diverse applications, or scalable interprocessor communications for computing, our team ensures the BittWare T2-6U-cPCI delivers maximum performance for your radar, sonar, or other demanding applications.