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Hardware
The SDR-3000 hardware consists of a series of cPCI-based boards, including:
PRO-3100: a front-end processing board supporting four user-programmable Xilinx Virtex-II FPGAs.
PRO-3500: a signal processing board supporting two PowerPC G4 processors, up to two additional
G4 or ‘C64X procesors, and/or additional I/O.
TM1-3300: an analog I/O board supporting four 80 MHz ADCs and four 160 MHz DACs.
TM1-3350: an analog I/O board supporting two 212 MHz ADCs and two 212 MHz DACs.
TM1-3902: an I/O reference design and high-performance digital I/O solution.
All boards are designed for use in high availability applications.
In order to achieve optimal dataflows, the following standard interconnects are used:
All FPGAs and G4 processors are connected via
flex
Fabric, a serial RapidIO-based switched fabric that
allows virtually any dataflow to be achieved when working with high-data rate front-end processing.
All processing boards (PRO-3100 and PRO-3500) are
connected via a PICMG 2.16 switched Ethernet
backplane, allowing simple network integration,
efficient integration of development tools, and an
efficient data path for lower speed payload data.
Both the PRO-3100 and PRO-3500 have standard
cPCI interfaces, allowing simple integration with
any third-party cPCI boards, and an efficient control
path that is independent from the data path.
These concepts are illustrated
in Figure 1.
[ PRO-3100 ]
The PRO-3100 is a cPCI board with four user-programmable Xilinx Virtex-II FPGAs, and is ideal for very high data
rate front-end processing. These can support:
Up to 160 narrowband down converter channels of 2 MHz bandwidth or less, or
Up to 40 wideband channels of 40 MHz or less
The PRO-3100 contains a user-programmable embedded PowerPC 405GP controller to offload system control from
the FPGA processors, which can then be dedicated to signal processing. It also provides a seamless network interface.
The following summarizes the external interfaces on the PRO-3100 board:
TM1 interface (to the TM1-3300) – can handle 8 simultaneous 80 MSPS channels
flex
Fabric interface – supporting up to six 320 MB/s full-duplex switched fabric links
PICMG 2.16 compliant switched Ethernet
66 MHz, 32-bit PCI via cPCI backplane
For more information on the PRO-3100, please see the PRO-3100 datasheet.
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Figure 1. Example SDR-3000 Configuration (high availability)