Bleading edge DSP power Board (in 2002)

• Altera APEX20KC cobber FPGAs with each 600.000 gates.
• 6 TigerSharcs DSPs running 250MHz from Analog Devices
• Very fast ZBT RAM for each DSP (16MB expandable to 32MB)
• 256MB SDRAM for input and output buffer
• Compact PCI - 66MHz 64Bit - up to 0.5 GB per second!
• SMPS (10A) - The low voltage results in large currents and low noise demand.
• Jtag testability - 12000 solderings, 5500 nets, 92% tested in 0.3 second!
• Layout uses state of the art techniques to control the signal integrity and EMC.

The board is part of a standard compact PCI rack, with up to 7 DSP boards and one Pentium Controllerboard in one subsystem. The Controllerboard runs the realtime operating system VxWorks.

Developtime: 5 Man Months

Power: 6 Giga floating point operations per second - 1 Million FFT in 56us!!