HPE720-S02 Curtiss-Wright 6U VPX NXP Power Architecture MPC8640D and Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA Processor Card

The Curtiss-Wright HPE720 6U VPX NXP Power Architecture MPC8640D and Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA Processor Card is a high-performance hybrid processing engine, blending the benefits of the largest Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs with a Freescale Power Architecture MPC8640D (dual-core AltiVec) processor. Demanding applications can use the dense FPGA resources of the HPE720 to process tasks that can take advantage of high-performance algorithms partitioned across the FPGAs and dual-core processor. When complex algorithms are partitioned into FPGAs, an increase in performance leads to a dramatic reduction in slot count and system cost. The HPE720 includes an MPC8640D processor to handle floating-point calculations, additional processing, data analysis, decision making, and system control. It is this combination of processing resources that allows the HPE720 to function as a standalone board or as an integrated part.

The HPE720 combines dense processing resources with robust I/O to the front panel, mezzanines, and backplane to maximize the effectiveness of these resources. Mezzanine support includes an FMC site (VITA 57) and a PMC/XMC/FMC site. FMC is a standard to allow designers to take advantage of advances in the latest I/O (ADCs, DACs, etc.) and couples this I/O directly to FPGAs. This allows users to take advantage of the low latency and high-bandwidth supported by FPGAs, while the inherent flexibility of FMC eases design for multiple I/Os and allows for dissipating heat more effectively.