Spectrum Signal Processing by Vecima

Overview

The flexComm PRO-1900 and PRO-1901 provide an intelligent VME-based carrier platform with four enhanced PMC (ePMC) sites and one PMC site. The PRO-1900 employs a 200 MHz MPC8240 PowerPC embedded controller with 16 MB of flash and 64 MB of SDRAM to facilitate network communication and provide support for high-level control and protocol stack processing. The PRO-1900 and PRO-1901 can host multiple XMC and ePMC modules in one or two VME slots.

One of the key benefits of the PRO-1900 and PRO-1901 is that they employ several communications fabrics to provide high-speed data flow between system elements. These fabrics include the Solano Communications IC and local PCI buses.

The PRO-1900 can be purchased independently as a single-slot VME solution, or with the PRO-1901 to create a dual-slot solution with a single integrated front panel.

Features

• High-speed communications fabric based on the Solano® Communications IC supports sustained data transfers of over 200 MB/s full-duplex on any link
• Each ePMC site has up to 8 Solano~links to other ePMC sites and the front panel. Each link supports 200 MB/s (full duplex)
• The PRO-1900 contains a FreescaleTM MPC8240 PowerPCTM embedded controller with 16 MB flash and 64 MB of SDRAM
• Up to four enhanced PMC (ePMC) sites and a single PMC site
• PRO-1900 and PRO-1901 each have a local 64-bit 33 MHz PCI bus capable of 264 MB/s peak bandwidth
• Software support includes quicComm, VxWorks® 5.5/Tornado II®, and CORBA (TAO ORB)

Benefits

• High-speed, low latency, deterministic data paths to and from mezzanine sites and between boards are facilitated by multiple communications fabrics
• Accelerate application development by exploiting communications infrastructure and system control provided by an embedded controller
• Extensive software support simplifies application development, speeds time-to- market and ensures code portability