Mistral announces availability of new rugged low-power quad-core VME DSP engine from Curtiss-Wright
(Product News, 12 Feb 2008 )
Mistral Solutions has announced the availability of the first P.A. Semi -1682 Power Architecture -based DSP VME compute engine from Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing.
The CHAMP-AV5 quad core multi-processing board brings the highest performance Power Architecture processor to the VME64x form factor standard. It provides 64 GFLOPs of processing and FPGA-based algorithm acceleration for signal processing applications. Based on a pair of 2GHz dual-core 1682 processors from P.A. Semi, the CHAMP-AV5 doubles the performance of the previous generation. With over 50% greater performance per watt than previous generation 7448 designs, the CHAMP-AV5 will enable systems integrators to upgrade existing systems without the typical concern of increased power consumption. The CHAMP-AV5 is pin-compatible with the 7447/7448-based CHAMP-AV4 allowing for performance upgrades without changing chassis, backplane, power supplies of existing qualified systems.
The CHAMP-AV5 provides high memory and inter-processor bandwidth to complement the processors, each is equipped with two banks of DDR2 SDRAM with a peak bandwidth over 8GB/s. The CHAMP-AV5 QuadFlow Express architecture provides each processor with an 8-lane, 4GB/s PCIe connection. Two PMC/XMC sites are available, served with 4-lane 2GB/s PCIe connections. The CHAMP-AV5 is supported with Curtiss-Wright’s Continuum Software Architecture with state of the art firmware and VxWorks Board Support Package support. Curtiss-Wright provides Continuum Vector signal processing libraries and Continuum IPC, a high performance Inter-Processor Communications Library, for message passing and bulk data transfers.
