PowerStream 7000 FCN Module

Mercury Computer Systems

Contact:

Eran Strod

Download:

PS7K-FCN-ds.pdf

Description:

The PowerStream 7000 FPGA compute node (FCN) module provides a flexible, manageable way to exploit the power of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in PowerStream 7000 multicomputer systems. The FCN provides massive I/O as part of a scalable system that can expand with minimal application recoding and expense. Because some algorithms can run up to 20 times faster on an FPGA than a RISC processor, developers can partition applications across FPGAs and RISC processors for maximum effectiveness.
The FCN module supports three Xilinx Virtex-II Pro P70-6 FPGAs. Each 7-million gate FPGA is connected to the RapidIO switch fabric via an onboard RapidIO crossbar. Each FPGA is supported by both local SRAM and local DRAM to maximize its effectiveness.

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