Innovative Solutions Newsletter April 2010
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Easily add I/O or processing to your VPX and MicroTCA designs...
Enabling support of an extremely broad range of applications | FMC provides an industry standard for expanding processing or I/O via mezzanine cards that connect to FPGA(s) on the carrier card. Electrically, the FMC connector supports high-speed serial (SerDes) ports, LVDS, clocks, and single ended signaling, providing a wide range of options and flexibility to the user. Similarly, the mechanical format of the FMC supports a variety of standard carrier board formats including AdvancedMC (AMC), VME, VXS, and VPX, and can be air-cooled or conduction-cooled.
The addition of an FMC site on BittWare's S4 family of FPGA boards, based on Altera Corporation's 40-nm Stratix® IV FPGAs, allows customers to support an extremely broad range of applications simply by adding specific I/O or processing via various FMCs. Coupled with BittWare's ATLANTiS™ FrameWork (AFW) for FPGAs, the FMCs also facilitate design reuse of FPGA implementations that will decrease time-to-market, while also lowering costs across multiple programs.
"Flexibility is one of the most important features of a COTS board, and our adoption of VITA 57/FMC, greatly improves the flexibility of our next generation of products. When using FPGAs in signal processing applications, it can be challenging to add additional processing and I/O that may be required to implement a complete solution - FMCs solve that problem on our S4 family of boards."
Jeff Milrod, BittWare President & CEO
BittWare S4 Family of FPGA boards
VITA Members Form FMC Marketing Alliance
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Inaugural product in family of Stratix IV FPGA-computing boards with VITA 57-compliant FMC site providing enhanced flexibility...
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Altera® Stratix® IV GX FPGA-Based Reconfigurable AMC |
The S4AM features a high-density, low-power Altera Stratix IV GX FPGA designed specifically for serial I/O-based applications, creating a completely flexible, reconfigurable AMC. BittWare's ATLANTiS FrameWork, in conjunction with the FINe III Host/Control Bridge, greatly simplifies application development and integration of this powerful board.
The board also provides an IPMI system management interface, a configurable 15-port AMC SerDes interface supporting a variety of protocols, and a front panel 4x SerDes interface supporting CPRI and OBSAI. Additionally, the board features 10/100 Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, two banks of DDR3 SDRAM, two banks of QDRII+ SRAM, and Flash memory for booting the FPGAs and FINe. Providing enhanced flexibility is the VITA 57-compliant FMC site which has an additional eight SerDes, 60 LVDS pairs, and six clocks.
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Two Decades of Signal Processing Leadership
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Two Decades of Signal Processing Leadership
For two decades, BittWare has been the leading designer and manufacturer of ruggedizable and commercial, FPGA-computing and hybrid (FPGA+DSP) digital signal processing board-level solutions based on the Altera® Stratix® FPGA technology and Analog Devices' TigerSHARC® technology. BittWare's Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) and application-specific solutions for high-performance, real-time signal processing and I/O applications provide the essential building blocks required by OEMs for developing and deploying their innovative systems in defense, communications, instrumentation, and life sciences applications. Needs are addressed from prototype-to-production and span a variety of platforms, including AdvancedMC, VPX, VME, CompactPCI, PMC, PCI, and standalone.
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