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News Release from: Mistral Solutions | Subject: XMC-442
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 29 October 2007
Module suits image processing
The XMC-442 provides systems integrators with a powerful FPGA-based computing engine for I/O or sensor processing or algorithm acceleration.
Mistral Solutions has released the XMC-442, the first Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA-based XMC module (VITA 42) compute engine from Curtiss Wright The XMC-442 is designed for demanding signal and image processing applications including radar, sonar and signal intelligence
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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It features the Virtex-5 SXT, the largest, highest-performance DSP-focused FPGA available from Xilinx.
The XMC-442 provides systems integrators with a powerful FPGA-based computing engine for I/O or sensor processing or algorithm acceleration.
Combining the Virtex-5 SXT processor with an array of memory and I/O, the XMC-442 offers designers an easy to use module for a wide range of applications in both benign and rugged environments.
It significantly speeds the integration of high-performance FPGA-based custom calculation blocks onto embedded platforms that feature on-board XMC sites and enable system designers to get custom FPGA-based applications to market faster.
Curtiss-Wright's Continuum FXtools developer's kit provides the XMC-442 with a comprehensive software and IP development suite.
This FPGA toolkit provides the software and IP blocks necessary to quickly develop a custom FPGA design and to deploy it on a range of Curtiss-Wright Continuum Software Architecture-compatible base cards.
The Continuum FXtools software includes FPGA-specific function libraries for FPGA configuration, DMA control and other XMC-442-specific utility functions, including temperature and power sensors, command bus mappings and diagnostics.
In addition, Curtiss-Wright's Continuum IPC communications middleware package has been extended to directly support transfers between the XMC-442's FPGA and other FPGAs or processor nodes within the system.
The XMC-442 is designed to operate in rugged environments and is available in both air and conduction-cooled formats.
Innovative cooling techniques are employed to handle high-performance FPGA implementations.
This XMC daughtercard is optimised for deployment on a Curtiss-Wright CHAMP-FX2 FPGA VPX engine, but may also be used on a CHAMP-AV6, SVME-184, or VPX6-185 single-board computers.
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