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News Release from: Sundance Multiprocessor Technology | Subject: SMT351T
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 13 May 2008
FPGA module drops in to upgrade DSP
The SMT351T features the Virtex-5 SX95T device that includes 640 Xilinx XtremeDSP slices capable of delivering up to 352GMACs of DSP performance.
New from Sundance, the SMT351T is billed as the company's highest-performing FPGA-based module The SMT351T is pin compatible and functionally identical to predecessor Sundance modules stretching back more than a decade
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Oct 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Designed to be integrated into a wide range of modular systems the SMT351T features the Virtex-5 SX95T device that includes 640 Xilinx XtremeDSP slices capable of delivering up to 352GMACs of DSP performance.
The FPGA has direct access to 2Gbyte of DDR2 RAM and a configuration PROM enables the module to be used stand-alone.
FPGA configuration can be made from a connected DSP module.
It is supported by an array of connectors and interfaces including four RSL (Rocket to Serial Link) connectors for data transfer rates of up to 2.5Gbyte/s, LVDS connections for high speed parallel connections, LVTTL and three 20-way SLB connectors.
"The Virtex-5 SX95T device gives developers a high-performance FPGA optimised to deliver significant levels of DSP performance and system integration capabilities", says Tim Erjavec, Director of Embedded and DSP Marketing at Xilinx.
"Because the Sundance solution is compatible with previous Virtex generations, customers can easily migrate their designs to the latest FPGA devices from Xilinx".
Mounted onto a carrier card, the SMT351T is ideal for applications such as software defined radio (SDR), MIMO and very complex video and signal processing.
It is available immediately from Sundance and provides maximum flexibility and field upgradability to a range of FPGA and DSP systems.
Commenting on the strategy of forward and backwards compatibility, Flemming Christensen, Managing Director of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology says: "In the early 90s we pioneered the use of FPGAs in a multiprocessor, heterogeneous environment and succession planning was a corner stone of our design philosophy".
"Today this approach is paying dividends for partners and customers who not only benefit from an assured migration path to new technology, but also an IP environment that is rich in legacy and new IP".
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