CHAMP-FX3 (VPX6-472) 6U OpenVPX
The CHAMP-FX3 (VPX6-472) is the next generation in Curtiss Wright Controls Defense Solutions' family of user-programmable FPGA-based computing products, designed to meet the needs of challenging embedded high-performance digital signal and image processing applications.
Specifications
- 6U OpenVPX (VITA 65)
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Dual user-programmable Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs (SX475T or LX550T), each with:
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2 GB DDR3 SDRAM in two banks
- Supports migration to 4 GB per FPGA
- 72 MB QDRII+ SRAM in four banks
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2 GB DDR3 SDRAM in two banks
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Freescale Power Architecture MPC8640D processor
- Running at 1 GHz
- 1 GB SDRAM in two banks
- Two Mezzanine sites with support for FMC (VITA 57)
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On-board SRIO 1.3 switch
- Four 4-lane fabric ports to the backplane
- 4-lane ports to both user FPGAs and the MPC8640D processor
- Thermal sensors for monitoring board temperatures
- Sensors for monitoring board power consumption
- Support for ChipScope™ Pro and JTAG processor debug interfaces
- Multi-board synchronous clock
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FusionXF BSP and FPGA design kit with highly-optimized IP Blocks, development environment, reference designs, scriptable simulation test benches and software libraries
- VxWorks® and Linux® variants available
- Continuum IPC - inter-processor communications middleware available
- Continuum Vector subroutine library available
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VITA 48 1” pitch format
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Ruggedization levels
- Level 0 (Commercial)
- Air-cooled level 100
- Conduction-cooled level 200
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Ruggedization levels


