FPE320 3U VPX FPGA Processor Board

VMETRO

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Nicole Renfro
Marketing Manager

Description:

The FPE320 is a 3U VPX FPGA processor board that incorporates the largest Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs available with an FMC mezzanine site. Providing a large amount of resources in a small, rugged form factor, the FPE320 is the ideal FPGA platform for 3U systems that need to acquire analog and other high-speed I/O or need a large FPGA processor.


FPGAs have been adopted for their incredible processing capability, as well as their ability to fi t this capability in reduced size, weight, and power (SWaP) constraints. The inherent parallelism of FPGAs makes them well suited for a variety of image and signal processing applications that have historically been satisfied with a large array of general purpose processors. When complex algorithms are partitioned into FPGAs, users can see increases in performance that can lead to a dramatic reduction in slot count and system cost, which are at a premium in 3U systems.

As system platforms have shrunk, many designers have considered 3U boards. 3U VPX has provided an ideal platform for high-speed serial interconnects (HSSI) such as PCI Express (PCIe), Aurora, and Serial RapidIO (sRIO) to the backplane, but board constraints have limited the use of large FPGAs with I/O. With the advent of the FMC mezzanine site, or FPGA mezzanine site, large FPGAs can be used in 3U systems because the I/O space requirements are minimized. FMC is a standard conceived to allow designers to take advantage of advances in the latest I/O (ADC's, DAC's, etc.) and couples this I/O directly to FPGAs. This allows users to take advantage of low latency and high bandwidth that FPGAs support, while its flexibility eases design for multiple I/Os and allows for dissipating heat more effectively. The FPE320 combines the I/O resources of the FMC with the backplane connectivity of 3U VPX to maximize the effectiveness of these large FPGA resources.

The FPE320 is supported by the FusionXF Development Kit, which provides infrastructure and support for HDL development, software, and multi-processing applications, including PCIe, Aurora and Serial RapidIO. VxWorks and Linux are supported operating systems for the processors that interact with the FPE320.

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