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VMETRO kick starts VPX system development

http://www.fpgajournal.com/news_2008/07/20080710_0 [2008-7-14]

Tag : industrial portable computer

VMETRO, a leader in embedded computing solutions based on standardssuch as VXS, VPX, XMC and FMC that utilize multi-gigabit serialinterconnects, today announced a five slot VPX/VXS portable towerenclosure and backplane to accelerate and simplify VPX systemintegration and development. A challenge of developing with VPX isthere isn’t a “standard” VPX backplane which willresult in delays on many VPX programs while custom backplanes aredeveloped. The VMETRO VPX/VXS portable tower directly addressesthis challenge giving engineers and software developers a headstart on their integration and application development. Thebackplane’s design enables full exploitation of the massivebackplane bandwidth of VMETRO’s FPE650 quad-FPGA and HPE640hybrid-PowerPC/FPGA VPX boards while enabling developers tointegrate VMETRO’s existing VXS boards into embeddedreal-time DSP systems.
The backplane is designed specifically to support the high speedand high bandwidth I/O and backplane interconnectivity of theVMETRO FPE650 and HPE640 VPX boards. The VPX/VXS backplane isequipped with 3 VPX slots and 2 VXS slots (1 payload and 1 switch).To support VPX/REDI boards, the VPX slots in are on a 1”pitch. The single VXS payload slot enables existing VXS payloadboards to be utilized; the VXS switch slot supports the VMETRO CSW1switch which provides up to 12 front panel fiber optic transceiversand flexible backplane connections between the VPX and VXS payloadslots.
The chassis, model VPX-ENC-0102, can enclose a signal processingsystem controlled by a PowerPC processor running either VxWorks orLinux and up to 14 Xilinx® Virtex®-5 FPGAs and 6 high speedanalog input FMC (VITA 57) modules. VMETRO’s FPGA developmentkit can be used to simplify the FPGA development and integration.The FPGA development kit provides all the building blocks to builda fully functional FPGA design to which a customer can integratetheir FPGA logic and algorithms and it provides mechanisms forcommunication between FPGAs as well as communication between FPGAsand processors. To support the power and cooling required for sucha high performance system, the VPX-ENC-0102 comes equipped with a1332W power supply and two 190 CFM fans.

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