FM481 Virtex-4 PMC/XMC

Description

The FM481 is a high performance PMC/XMC module dedicated to high bandwidth communication. In addition to 4x 2.5Gbps optical transceivers for Fiber Channel and Gigabit Ethernet, the FM481 offers fast on-board memory resources and one Virtex-4 FX20/60 FPGA. The FM481 is based on the success of the FM482.

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FPGA
• XC4VFX20 or XC4VFX60 with embedded PowerPC RISC processor
• FPGA configuration on-board storage
• Off-the-shelf IP cores
• FPGA firmware design services available upon request

Memory
• 2 x 32M x 16 DDR2 SDRAM default (up to 256MB)
• 128Mbit flash device

PCI interface
• PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz, 3.3V
• PCI-X/PCI 64/32-bit 66MHz, 3.3V
• PCI 64/32-bit 33MHz, 3.3V
• PCI express 4 lanes

Measured sustained bandwidth
64-bit 133MHz = 760Mbytes/s
64-bit 66MHz = 450Mbytes/s
32-bit 33MHz = 120Mbytes/s

I/O and Front Panel Interface
• 4x 2.5Gbps optical transceivers for Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet and Infiniband applications
• PMC connector Pn4 64 user I/Os

Software Support
• FPGA reference design
• Software GUI for card control
• Software utility to program on-board Flash with FPGA configuration data
• Device driver for Windows 2000/XP, Linux and VxWorks
• Test /demonstration application
• Custom FPGA firmware /application /driver development available upon request

Application examples
• Real-time DSP functions (e.g. Floating Point FFT, FIR, Polyphase filterbanks, DDC, etc...)
• Data Storage with over 1.2GBytes/s bandwidth to RAID or JBOD
• Embedded processors
• ASIC prototyping

Ordering information

Request more information or purchase this module by sending an email to sales@4dsp.com