The RapidIO Data Stream Logic specification includes a protocol-agnostic
encapsulation mechanism through type 9 packet and various end-to-end traffic
management methods. The encapsulation mechanism supports up to 64K bytes PDU
through segmentation and reassembly. Additionally, encapsulation provides the
capability to support hundreds of traffic classes as well as thousands of data
streams between end points. The end-to-end traffic management compliments other
traffic management schemes at the physical layer provided by SRIO
specification. The traffic management extension uses a hierarchical method to
be adaptable to a wide variety of queuing and management designs, which allow a
fine granularity QoS control to be applied to class-based queues and
stream-based queues. The data streaming protocol address the needs for data
plane applications and multi-core devices.
About Texas Instruments:
Texas Instruments, a leading semiconductor company for DSP
and analog products. TI is also a leading vendor for SRIO-enabled DSP products.
Authors/
Presenters Biography:
Chunhua Hu, a senior application engineer in Texas
Instruments since 2006. She is currently involved with high-performance
multi-core DSP development. She has been actively involved with the RapidIO
trade association since 2003, and has authored several specifications for SRIO
2.0. She graduated from Washington Univ. in St. Louis in 2003 with Doctorate of
Science degree.
Building High
Performance DSP Platform
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) have evolved rapidly
over the years to become an attractive vehicle for system integration in
diverse market segments. Today’s FPGA applications range from highly complex
high performance processing systems to lowest total cost solutions for high
volume products. The inherent flexibility and scalability of programmable
technology make FPGA devices a good substitute for expensive custom logic and
application specific devices. FPGA’s inherent breadth of features and resources
helps bridge design gaps and allow leveraging investments in existing and
legacy designs/ boards/ devices while permitting relevant portions of systems
to adopt fast changing newer technology. Xilinx, a worldwide leader in
programmable logic devices, is a major force in unleashing this trend through
an optimal mix of FPGA silicon, tools, and IP products. This paper/
presentation discusses FPGA technology to build high performance, low power,
and cost effective signal processing platform using Serial RapidIO as
connectivity and bridging protocol.
About
Xilinx:
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) is the worldwide leader of
programmable logic solutions. Additional information about Xilinx is available
at http://www.xilinx.com.
Authors/
Presenters Biography:
Harpinder Singh Matharu is Senior Product Marketing Manager
in Communications division at Xilinx. He manages IP products targeting
primarily wireless equipment infrastructure – sRIO, CPRI, OBSAI, and
IEEE1588.He has 21 years of experience working in different capacities in high
technology embedded and communication industry. Prior to joining Xilinx,
Harpinder was Principal Systems Architect at Integrated Device Technology, Inc
where he managed Integrated Communication Processors and Switch Products. He
has published many papers, frequent speaker at Industry events, and chaired
Standards technical/ marketing bodies. He holds degrees in Bachelor of
engineering in Electronics & Communication from Delhi Institute of
Technology, MBA from UoP, and Certification in Advanced Program Management from
Stanford University.
Critical Embedded
Systems with RapidIO Switching
RapidIO was developed as a system interconnected for
embedded systems. It has low protocol overhead, and supports peer to peer
networking of processing elements.Most
imaging and other signal processing systems used in military and aerospace
applications require a large number of processing elements to do both fixed
point and floating point operations.In
this paper, Tundra Semiconductor shows how RapidIO can be used to solve some of
these system needs and provides some real life examples of systems that
leverage COTS Single Board Computing
About
Tundra:
Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (TSX: TUN) is the worldwide
leader in system interconnect semiconductors, with product offerings in
RapidIO, PCI/PCIe, Hypertransport and VME.Tundra supplies the world’s leading communications, computing and
storage companies with System Interconnect products, intellectual property (IP)
and design services backed by world-class customer service and technical
support.
Authors/
Presenters Biography:
Devashish
Paul is Tundra's Product Marketing Manager for Serial RapidIO switching
products. Over the past 13 years he has
run product lines in the semiconductor and networking industry at companies
like Semiconductor Insights, Solidum Systems, Mosaid Semiconductor and
Nortel. At Solidum he was Director of
Product Management for the PAX.port packet classification product line which
was eventually acquired by IDT. Prior to
his commercial career, he had a successful eight year career in the Canadian
Air Force where he was a systems engineer for airborne radar systems for both
the CP-140 and the F-18 Program.
Devashish
Paul has a Masters in Electrical Engineering in Digital Signal Processing and
an MBA from the University of Ottawa.
His Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering is from the Royal
Military College of Canada.
Wireless Baseband in
microTCA: Antenna Interfaces, RapidIO and Processing
This paper will address a range of wireless baseband
applications, from Base stations through to high end Load Test systems, and
discuss how RapidIO in MicroTCA can be used to distribute wireless data from a
CPRI or OBSAI interface to one or many processing AMCs.
About
CommAgility:
CommAgility is a leading manufacturer of signal processing
AMC modules for wireless baseband applications, combining flexible antenna
interfaces, the latest TI DSPs and Xilinx FPGAs, and high bandwidth on and
off-card communications using Serial RapidIO and Ethernet. Customers around the
world use CommAgility products to develop high performance applications in both
wireless and non-wireless spaces, and recent designs include test equipment,
trial systems and base stations for a wide range of wireless standards
especially WiMax and LTE.
Authors/
Presenters Biography:
Edward Young is Managing Director and co-founder of
CommAgility, a 2006 start-up which has rapidly gained the leading position
in AMCs for Wireless Baseband processing, involved in WiMax deployments, LTE
Trials and Test Systems around the world. Prior to founding CommAgility he
served in a variety of applications, marketing and sales roles in Blue Wave
Systems and Motorola Computer Group, as well as research into automotive radar
and video systems. He has a first class master’s degree in electronics from Cambridge
University.
High performance low
power modular MicroTCA Solution
In this session, Greg Tiedemann, presents how Mercury, a leading provider of high-performance,
embedded computing solutions for image, sensor, and signal processing applications uses the RapidIO protocol to deliver a high performance
low power modular MicroTCA Solution supported by the Ensemble MCH2022Z MicroTCA
Carrier Hub and Switch. In this presentation a number of real world applications that are easily developed with this MicroTCA system and associated
Ensemble product line AMCs are described. Markets that can be serviced with this solution include wireless communications, signal processing
applications for Defense and Aerospace in addition to video and imaging.
About Mercury Computers:
Mercury Computer Systems – Where Challenges Drive Innovation
Mercury Computer Systems provides embedded computing systems and software that
combine image, signal, and sensor processing with information management for
data-intensive applications. Mercury serves a broad range of industries that
include aerospace and defense, homeland security, telecommunications, and other
computationally challenging markets.
Mercury products
are built on strong expertise
in algorithm optimization and silicon design, combined with software
application knowledge and industry-standard technologies. With unmatched system
integration and support capabilities, we enable our customers to gain the
competitive advantage they need to stay at the forefront of the markets they
serve.
Building on our 25-year record of solving highly challenging
computing problems, Mercury provides unrivalled application acceleration and business value, reducing
risk and speeding time to market.
Authors/
Presenters Biography:
Greg Tiedemann, Director of business development and systems
engineering for Mercury Computer Systems’ Communications Computing
Segment.Prior to joining Mercury, he spent
nearly 10 years with Ericsson.He has a
BS in Mechanical Engineering from Tri-State University, Indiana.
Organizer:
Tom Cox, RapidIO Trade Association
“RapidIO is a very flexible and scalable fabric used in both
communications and military applications. It’s a very sleek protocol that can
even communicate chip-to-chip, unlike heavyweight protocols such as Ethernet
and Infiniband.” – Richard Grigonis, TMCnet
Intended
Audience:
Technology managers, communications equipment designers,
applications software developers, systems analysts and integrators, marketing
and engineering managers, consultants, design specialists,design service providers, product managers,
marketing engineers, sales engineers, and engineers at customer installations
such as telcos and defense contractors.
Tutorial
Description:
RapidIO is an interconnect standard that uses
high-performance, packet-switched technology.Its advantages are high speed, low latency, high throughput,
multi-master and hot-swap capabilities, and inherent hardware implementation of
quality-of-service.It is especially
well-suited to high-availability telecom and military communications systems
operating in the multi-gigabit range.It
can support a variety of processors, DSPs, switches, and other hardware and
software components.This tutorial will
introduce the basics of RapidIO, illustrate its uses and advantages, and
describe typical applications in wireless telecom and military systems.
About
the Organizer:
Tom Cox is the Executive Director for the RapidIO® Trade
Association, where he is responsible for the future direction of the
association, working with Committees and Working Groups, within the association
to lead RapidIO technology development and market penetration. With nearly 30
years of experience in engineering, marketing and strategy, focusing on
interconnects and standards, his expertise and industry relationships prove
invaluable as RapidIO technology continues to penetrate the telecommunications,
and embedded markets.He has previously
experience with Tundra Semiconductor, IBM Microelectronics, ATI Technologies,
LSI Logic, Litton Systems, and Philips Electronics.He has participated in many industry expert
panel discussions, presented at conferences, worked with RapidIO Trade
Association member training events, written technical papers, and assisted with
the RapidIO book, RapidIO: The Embedded System Interconnect.
