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News Release from: IDT | Subject: AMC70K2000
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 27 November 2006
Platform jumpstarts basestation
development
IDT and TI have developed a robust 3G basestation development platform that speeds customer time to market by jumpstarting mission critical software programming and enabling rapid early prototyping.
Integrated Device Technology has announced the achievement of full interoperability between its preprocessing switch (PPS) and the highest performance digital signal processors (DSP) from Texas Instruments Through this strong collaboration, both IDT and TI developed a robust 3G basestation development platform that speeds customer time to market by jumpstarting mission critical software programming and enabling rapid early prototyping
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The development platform integrates the IDT PPS with four TI DSPs on an advanced mezzanine card (AMC), which simply plugs into a PC.
The AMC70K2000 development platform - jointly created by IDT and TI - offers a diverse mix of hardware options and software tailored for baseband processing demonstrations and development.
The offering includes an AMC and all of the software necessary for rapid setup, initialisation, and on-site evaluation of the PPS capabilities.
The platform enables realistic case studies for moving tasks and operations from the DSPs to the PPS and observing the system responses.
The AMC deploys four fabric-connected TI DSPs (TMS320C6455/6482) and the IDT PPS (70K2000) offering a RapidIO interface of 40 lanes and 22 ports and accelerating each DSP in a cluster by up to 20%.
It has a 3Gbit/s Ethernet backplane, one line I/O; DDR2 DRAM up to 128Mbyte per DSP; Flash storage (serial high speed) and I2C; JTAG for system boot master, MMC; MMC control for IPMI with additional applications; and a local-power option for stand-alone operation.
A built-in expansion port offers the ready addition of a daughter card supporting other Serial RapidIO endpoints, including the new IDT 10G serial buffer.
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