IXA4-RP Curtiss-Wright Rear Panel Module

The Curtiss-Wright / DY-4 / Ixthos Compact CHAMP-AV Series High Performance Digital Signal Processing (DSP) are the latest Dy4 Systems offering in the growing line of high-performance Digital Signal Processing (DSP) solutions. The Compact CHAMP-AV provides over 16 GFLOPS of floating point performance in a single Compact PCI slot. Supporting various high speed/high performance versions of the PowerPC G4 (with AltiVec) microprocessors from Motorola, the Compact CHAMP-AV is ideal for a diverse range of realtime signal processing applications. The Compact CHAMP-AV architecture supports two industry-standard PCIbased Mezzanine Cards (PMCs) providing a flexible and powerful I/O architecture that enables very high throughput.

The heart of the Compact CHAMP-AV is its advanced, optimized data flow architecture. The Compact CHAMP-AV board is segmented into three isolated 32-bit, 33MHz PCI bus sections allowing the PowerPC processor (MPC8240) access to the Compact PCI bus concurrently with I/O data transfer operations between each dual 7400/7410 G4 Signal Processing Element (SPE) and its associated PMC site. The internal 32-bit/33 MHz PCI bridges allow concurrent and efficient data transfers between the independent DSP Signal Processing Elements (SPEs) and the PCI bus sections. The embedded MPC8240 Control Processing Element (CPE) has access to the Compact PCI bus, PMC I/O sites, and each SPE's local memory, allowing for flexible, free data flow and real-time control path implementations.

Every real time system requires a high bandwidth, low latency I/O mechanism to move data on and off the board. The Compact CHAMP-AV can accomplish this with it's included I/O ports via the rear panel connectors, and also through the use of industry standard PMC modules. Connectivity through the backplane includes three 10/100 Mbps Ethernet interfaces, two EIA-232 serial ports and PMC routing for a standard 2.5 Gbps Switched Fabric interface. Additionally there is an optional ECTF H.110 Computer Telephony interface which can handle up to 4096 simultaneous voice channels. The PMC sites can also be used to support Fibre channel, digital radio, Gigabit Ethernet, and A/D or D/A interfaces. The PMC I/O is accessible through a front panel connection or through the 64 user I/O pins provided on the J3/J5 connectors, all of which are routed to the rear panel. By leveraging PMC technology, the Compact CHAMP-AV is ideally suited for highly reliable, demanding, high data throughput telecommunications, multimedia broadband server/router, smart antenna, Voice-over-IP, Radar and Sonar applications.