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LEESBURG, VA – October 1, 2007 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, and VPX products, has announced the availability of the XMC-442, its first Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA-based XMC module (VITA 42) compute engine. The XMC-442 is designed for demanding, high-performance signal and image processing applications including radar, sonar, and signal intelligence. It is Curtiss-Wright’s first module to feature the Virtex-5 SXT, the largest, highest-performance DSP-focused FPGA available from Xilinx. With software driver and IP development support from Curtiss-Wright’s Continuum FXtools developer’s kit, the XMC-442 significantly speeds and simplifies the development of custom FPGA designs.
The new XMC-442 mezzanine module combines the flexibility of a Xilinx Virtex-5 SXT (SX50T/SX95T) FPGA, the high bandwidth of serial switched fabrics such as PCI Express and Serial RapidIO (SRIO), and rich I/O options. It significantly speeds the integration of high-performance FPGA-based custom calculation blocks onto embedded platforms that feature on-board XMC sites, such as VPX, VME and CompactPCI boards. Because it eliminates the task of writing time-consuming low-level interface code, typically a complex chore for multicomputer platforms, Continuum FXtools slashes the time and effort it takes to integrate a custom FPGA calculation blocks into a large multicomputer.
The XMC-442 works with Curtiss-Wright’s CHAMP-FX2, and other Power Architecture-based signal processing engines to enable system designers to integrate tightly coupled FPGA/FPGA or FPGA/PowerPC solutions.
“The XMC-442 enables system designers to get their custom FPGA-based application up, running and fielded faster,” said Lynn Patterson, Vice President and General Manager of Curtiss-Wright’s Modular Solutions group. “It delivers Xilinx’s most advanced FPGAs on XMC, today’s highest performance mezzanine module, enabling designers to get their unique system solutions out to market faster.”
“Curtiss-Wright’s XMC-442 takes full advantage of the new high-performance, low power Virtex-5 SXT FPGA,” said Eric Sivertson, General Manager for Aerospace and Defense at Xilinx. “The module’s rich I/O options, and rugged design make the XMC-442 an ideal platform for integrating FPGA processing into a rugged COTS-based system.”
XMC-442 Features:
– Single Virtex-5 SX50T or SX95T FPGA
– One bank of DDR2 SDRAM, 256MB total
– Two banks of QDR-II+ SRAM, 18MB total
– Three high-speed serial connections to the baseboard
– Personality module for customized I/O
– Optimized for ultra-high performance signal processing
– Continuum FXtools developer’s kit: provides optimized and temperature-qualified IP block libraries including memory controllers and a PCI Express core, reference designs, simulation test benches, BIT routines and software libraries
– Serial RapidIO end-point IP available
– IPC interprocessor communications middleware support
XMC-442 Development Kit Support
Curtiss-Wright’s Continuum FXtools developer’s kit provides the XMC-442 with a comprehensive software and IP development suite. This advanced FPGA toolkit provides the software and IP blocks necessary to quickly develop a custom FPGA design and to deploy it on a range of Curtiss-Wright Continuum Software Architecture-compatible basecards. Central to the Continuum FXtools package are the highly-optimized IP blocks and associated drivers, which include memory controllers, I/O controllers, a PCI Express endpoint with multi-channel DMA, a scalable switching infrastructure, and a wide variety of other utility functions.
The Continuum FXtools software includes FPGA-specific function libraries for FPGA configuration, DMA control, and other XMC-442-specific utility functions (including temperature and power sensors, command bus mappings, and diagnostics, etc.). In addition, Continuum FXtools includes a SystemVerilog-based scriptable simulation testbench environment that includes a full set of bus functional models and IP block models. An optional SRIO endpoint block is also available. In addition, Curtiss-Wright’s Continuum IPC communications middleware package has been extended to directly support transfers between the XMC-442’s FPGA and other FPGAs or processor nodes within the system.
Ruggedization Levels
The XMC-442 is designed to operate in rugged environments and is available in both air- and conduction-cooled formats. Innovative cooling techniques are employed to handle high performance FPGA implementations. This XMC daughtercard is optimized for deployment on a Curtiss-Wright CHAMP-FX2 FPGA VPX engine, but may also be used on a CHAMP-AV6, SVME-184, or VPX6-185 single-board computers.
Volume pricing for commercial and rugged versions of the XMC-442 is available. For pricing and availability please contact the factory.
Sales inquiries: Please forward all Sales and reader service inquiries to Jerri-Lynne Charbonneau, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, Tel: (613) 254-5112; Fax: (613) 599-7777; e-mail: [email protected].
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