CHAMP-FX3 (VPX6-472) 6U OpenVPX

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)
  • Dual user-programmable Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs (SX475T or LX550T), each with:
    • 2 GB DDR3 SDRAM in two banks
      • Supports migration to 4 GB per FPGA
    • 72 MB QDRII+ SRAM in four banks
  • Freescale Power Architecture MPC8640D processor
    • Running at 1 GHz
    • 1 GB SDRAM in two banks
  • Two Mezzanine sites with support for FMC (VITA 57)
  • 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
  • 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
  • VITA 48 1” pitch format
    • Ruggedization levels
      • Level 0 (Commercial)
      • Air-cooled level 100
      • Conduction-cooled level 200