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News Release from: Dy 4 Systems | Subject: Champ-AV III
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 September 2003
PowerPC board boasts top DSP performance
The Champ-AV III quad-MPC7447 PowerPC DSP board offers increased bandwidth and support for next-generation switch fabric PMC modules.
The Champ-AV III quad-MPC7447 PowerPC DSP board offers increased bandwidth and support for next-generation switch fabric PMC modules The AltiVec-based Champ-AV III features the QuadFlow architecture first introduced on the highly successful Champ-AV II
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Jul 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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With gigahertz processing and high-bandwidth subsystems, the Champ-AV III maintains Dy 4's position as provider of the fastest DSP board for military and aerospace signal processing applications.
The Champ-AV III, Dy 4's third-generation PowerPC DSP board, provides 32GFLOPS of peak computational power.
Based on the latest PowerPC from Motorola, each of the four processing nodes consists of a 1GHz 7447 processor, 256Mbyte DDR-250 SDRAM (2Gbyte/s) and dual 100MHz 64bit PCI-X interfaces.
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The QuadFlow architecture supports four simultaneous node-to-node transfers, resulting in a total data flow of 3.2Gbyte/s peak.
Each node can transfer to adjacent nodes at up to 1.6Gbyte/s peak.
The additional bandwidth capacity provided by Dy 4's QuadFlow architecture gives users increased multiprocessing application performance.
The Champ-AV III embodies Dy 4's vision to build hardware platforms that simplify software development.
The QuadFlow architecture is both fast and versatile, enabling software developers to focus on algorithms rather than dealing with architecture limitations.
Dy 4 is offering its IPC interprocessor communications library for use with the AVIII.
IPC-based applications developed on the AVII (with or without StarFabric interconnect) will easily port to the AVIII, providing customers with a seamless upgrade solution.
The Champ-AV III has two PMC sites that support the latest PCI-X interface specification, offering 64bit/100MHz operation, while retaining compatibility with legacy 33 and 66MHz PMC modules.
With a total 1.6Gbyte/s peak of I/O bandwidth, the AVIII has throughput to match the power of the four 7447s.
Both PMC sites support low voltage differential signalling (LVDS) to the backplane connectors, supporting the use of high-speed serial switched interconnect technologies such as Dy 4's StarFabric-based StarLink PMC and Fibre Channel PMC-643 modules.
Supporting high-speed connections to the backplane allows customers to avoid the use of front-panel wiring harnesses, resulting in improved system maintainability.
For connection to command and control networks, the Champ-AV III is equipped with two Ethernet interfaces, one supporting Gigabit Ethernet and the other supporting 100BaseT operation.
Operating system support is available or planned for Wind River VxWorks/Tornado, Green Hills Integrity and Timesys Linux.
The Dy 4 software suite also includes a run-time library supporting applications compiled to run without any RTOS.
Dy 4's proven IXLIBS-AV DSP function library has been ported to the 7447 family of processors.
The Champ-AV III is available in a range of air-cooled and conduction-cooled configurations and is also available in a dual-processor version.
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