• Freescale Power Architecture MPC8641D node 
• 2x Xilinx Virtex-5 (LX110T/SX95T) FPGA nodes
• VXS/VITA 41 high-speed interconnect fabric
• XMC/PMC site latest generation local I/O 
• Air cooled commercial or conduction cooled rugged versions

The Phoenix VPF2 is a rugged COTS DSP processing card which integrates a Freescale MPC8641D processor, two Xilinx^® Virtex^TM-5 FPGAs and a VXS based high-speed serial interconnect fabric. This DSP product from VMETRO provides leading edge performance with flexible high-bandwidth I/O. The VPF2 tackles both high-bandwidth pre-processing and sophisticated back-end processing in one 6U VME64/VITA 41 (VXS) product for demanding DSP applications such as real-time video processing, surveillance, radar and other applications that demand the highest levels of flexibility and performance.

The processing heart of the Phoenix VPF2 is a Freescale MPC8641D dual-core processor based on Power Architecture™ technology. The cores run up to 1.25 GHz with 2 Gbytes of memory to support operating systems such as VxWorks and Linux. Integrated within the MPC8641D processor is a complete I/O sub-system, including two Gigabit Ethernet ports, serial I/O, dual DDR/DDR2 memory controllers, VME interface and independent x8 PCI Express™ links to the Xilinx FPGAs and the XMC/PMC site. The VPF2 has Ethernet options which support both RJ45 and optical interfaces or backplane I/O.

Closely coupled to the MPC8641D processor are two Xilinx Virtex-5 SX95T FPGAs, optimized for DSP performance, or LX110T FPGAs, optimized for high-performance logic. With their on-chip serial transceivers, either of the Virtex-5 FPGA options provide high bandwidth off-board serial communications channels to processing and I/O sub-systems. Since the FPGAs connect to fast I/O streams, they can pre-process incoming data in real-time without bottlenecks. The Virtex-5 FPGAs deliver industry-leading performance for pixel-rate computation, digital down conversion, FFTs, filters and encryption. The FPGAs are fully user programmable and can be configured from flash memory. Both FPGA devices are supported with 4x 4M x 18-bit banks of QDR SRAM and 2x 64M x 16-bit SDRAM. These memories allow large data sets, such as frame buffers or large FFT information, to be stored locally for maximum FPGA performance. VMETRO provides tools, examples and utilities to simplify code development.

Input/output is provided through a number of channels including copper or fiber Ethernet ports, XMC/PMC for a wide choice of I/O options, RS232 ports or VXS serial I/O for interboard communications along with a VME64 bus. Direct FPGA I/O is also provided through a parallel backplane-connected port for very high I/O speed. 

This VXS board is available in both air-cooled or conduction-cooled versions with VxWorks or Linux board support packages.

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