RIOC 4065 Creative Electronic Systems PowerPC-Based CompactPCI Twin PCI Bus Real-Time Processor Board

The RIOC 4065 has been designed to provide a function-level compatibility with the RIOC 4064. It offers two onboard PMC slots as well as a PMC extension system. Compared to the RIOC 4064, it provides a massive speed improvement (by a factor of four), due to an extremely fast global memory and a bandwidth control logic, which allocates the throughput between the CPU, CompactPCI and the two 64-bit PCI buses. It also features FPGA-based CES-designed PowerPC-to-PCI and PowerPC-to-CompactPCI interfaces to reduce the risk of long-term maintenance.

This machine uses the latest CPU, CompactPCI and PCI technological features, including a 1 MByte L2 cache, direct CompactPCI-to-memory interface and two independent PCI buses with one directly available on the J3 connector.

It also follows all of the recommendations of the telecom requirement: Hot-Swap, High Availability, JTAG test bus and incorporates a comprehensive set of software maintenance tools.

The RIOC 4065 combines a sustained 100 MBytes/s bandwidth on CompactPCI with a 400 MBytes/s global memory bandwidth shared between the different buses. All of these features are equipped with an advanced API, which make the RIOC the ideal platform for large, computing intensive applications such as aircraft simulation, test and validation, high-speed data-acquisition systems, as well as large ATM switch controllers and base stations.

The integration risk for strategic applications has been significantly reduced by the use of FPGA-based PowerPC-to-PCI and PowerPC-to-CompactPCI bridges, where all of the missing functions in existing commercial bridges have been added and fine-tuning of the application has been made possible.