High-speed Aurora or Serial FPDP links
feed dual Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs via a pair of
FPGA mezzanine card (FMC/VITA 57) slots
on VMetro’s latest VPX single-board computer
(SBC). The HPE640 also includes two Freescale
MPC8641D dual e600 PowerPC cores. The
PowerPC chips have access to 2 Gbytes of
DDR2 SDRAM. Each FPGA has access to six
banks of memory (36 Mbytes of SRAM via four
banks, 256 Mbytes of DDR2 SDRAM via two
banks). A Gigabit Ethernet switch provides four
links to the backplane and to each MPC8641D.
A matching Serial RapidIO switch provides a
similar communication complement. Distributed
communication is supported by VMetro’s
FusionIPC, which works across the range of
VMetro’s boards, including the quad FPGA
FPE650 and the HPE720. The HPE720 has a
single processor plus a pair of FPGAs driving an
FMC slot and an XMC/FMC slot.
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