TORNADO-A6678/FMC AdvancedMC (AMC) module with DSP, FPGA and FMC site (TA6678/FMC)

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TORNADO-A6678/FMC®
AdvancedMC (AMC) module/controller with TI TMS320C6678 DSP, Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA and FMC-site

Key features

Industry first unique ultra-high performance single-width AdvancedMC (AMC) module with multi-core DSP, high-capacity FPGA and FMC-site for modular MicroTCA® and AdvancedTCA® systems and stand-alone embedded applications
Installs into MicroTCA® chassis and AdvancedTCA® mainboards
FMC site for user application adopted I/O (AD/DA, SFP+, QSFP+, SDR, RF, etc.) using FMC submodule
In-chassis AMC-to-AMC high-speed real-time data transfer via AMC interface using 10GbE/40GbE, Serial RapidIO and PCIe protocols
High-speed multi-channel DSP-to-FPGA communication
Remote control from host PC and Android® devices and in-chassis AMC-to-AMC communication via AMC 1GbE ports
Unified TASDK® tools for application development and system control
Complies with PICMG® 3.0 Rev.3.0, MicroTCA.0 R1.0, AMC.0 R2.0, IPMI 1.5, VITA® 57.1-2008 specifications
Stand-alone operation from +12V power supply for user embedded applications

Details

8-core Texas Instruments TMS320C6678 DSP (1.4GHz/1.25GHz, 359/320GMAC, 180/160GFLOPS)
Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA XC7VX690T(, XC7VX415T, XC7VX330T)
VITA® 57.1 FMC HPC site for FMC submodule (160 I/O, 8 GBTs)
AMC Fabric-D/E/F/G ports 4-7 and 8-11 with FPGA transceivers comply AMC.2 10GbE/40GbE, AMC.4 4x Serial RapidIO (39.4Gbps) and AMC.1 4x PCIe (32Gbps) protocols
AMC Fabric-A ports 0-1 (AMC.2 1GbE) from DSP for AMC remote control and in-chassis AMC-to-AMC control communication
DSP-to-FPGA communication via 4x 5Gbps Serial RapidIO ports (40Gbps bidirectional bandwidth), DSP EMIF-16 interface and DSP GPIO/IRQ
Up to 8GB of on-board DSP DDR3 memory
2Gb NOR FLASH for DSP bootloader, system monitor, applications, data arrays and FPGA bitstreams with file system support
Nonvolatile high-speed 128KB MRAM memory for critical user DSP application data
Hardware write protection for FLASH (full, sectors area)
Hardware write protection for MRAM (full)
x64 (up to 8GB) and x32 (up to 4GB) FPGA DDR3 banks
8-bit FPGA XGPIO port for external I/O
Optional clock synthesizer (or oscillator) of reference clock for FPGA transceivers for AMC ports 4-7/8-11
DSP and MMC UART ports for remote control and management
Front-panel DSP and FPGA user application controlled LEDs
JTAG ports for DSP, FPGA and FMC site
High-performance MMC controller with proprietary TAMMC® high-speed MMC-kernel from MicroLAB Systems, monitoring of power/temperature, and status indication for reliable and safe device operation
Available in Mid-size (M/S) and Full-size (F/S) single-width AdvancedMC (AMC) module form-factors

Development Tools

Unified TASDK® tools for TORNADO AMC modules with high-level API for quick development of DSP applications, FPGA bitstreams and host PC Windows/Linux and Android® remote control applications
TI RTOS/NDK and "bare-metal" API for DSP core #0 applications
TASDK/ThreadX toolkit with pre-certified Microsoft Azure ThreadX® RTOS for high-performance demanding applications
Demo projects for device tests and user projects startup
TI Code Composer Studio tools and MicroLAB Systems MIRAGE-NE1/NC2 JTAG emulators to compile and debug user DSP applications
Xilinx ISE/Vivado tools and high-performance MIRAGE-UXF USB JTAG emulator to compile and debug user FPGA firmware

Applications

Telecommunication and cell telephony
RF and digital radio
Image processing
Radars and astrophysics
Industrial, instrumentation and medical
General stand-alone and distributed DSP applications

** Notes

MicroLAB Systems can modify this product to meet special customer requirements. MOQ may apply. Contact MicroLAB Systems for more details.

TORNADO-A6678/FMC® mid-size AMC-module (click to enlarge)

TORNADO-A6678/FMC® AdvancedMC (AMC) module (M/S)
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TORNADO-A6678/FMC® Block Diagram
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TORNADO-mMTCA® modular DSP mini system with TORNADO-A6678/FMC® AMC-module, FMC A/D mezzanine module, and T/AX-DSFPX network AMC-modules in 2-slot MicroTCA® mini-chassis with passive backplane
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TORNADO-RxMTCA® modular radio-monitoring system with high-performance DSP comprising two F/S TORNADO-ARX1® radio-processing AMC-modules, M/S TORNADO-A6678® AMC-module and T/AX-DSFPX network AMC-module in 19" 1U 6-slot MicroTCA® chassis with 10GbE backplane switch
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Ordering information

	*TA6678FMC2B/X690T2C/1.4G/D4/F2/E512/M128/F1D4/F2D2/AS/FI/FC/FB/SA/FS*
		TORNADO-A6678/FMC rev.2B AdvancedMC (AMC) module, Xilinx Virtex-7 XC7VX690T-2FFG1157C FPGA (*X690T2C), 1.4GHz DSP cores frequency (1.4G), 4GB (512Mx64) DSP DDR3 memory (D4), 2Gb (128Mx16) DSP FLASH memory (F1), 128KB nonvolatile DSP MRAM memory (M128), 512Kb (64Kx8) DSP SEEPROM memory (E512), 4GB (512Mx64) FPGA DDR3 memory bank #1 (F1D4), 2GB (512Mx32) FPGA DDR3 memory bank #2 (F2D2*), programmable RefClk/AUX clock synthesizer for FPGA GTH transceivers for AMC ports 4-7/8-11 (any protocol) (AS), 8-bit FPGA XGPIO external I/O port (FI), FMC/HPC connector installed (FC), FPGA BBRAM (bitstream decryption key) battery (FB), stand-alone controller capability (SA), single-width full-size AdvancedMC (AMC) module dimensions (FS), standard 10mm FMC mezzanine module stacking. Commercial ambient temperature range 0°С..+55°С.

	*TA6678FMC2B/X415T2C/1.25G/D2/F2/E512/M128/F1D2/F2D1/A100.000M/FI/FC/FB/SA/MS*
		TORNADO-A6678/FMC rev.2B AdvancedMC (AMC) module, Xilinx Virtex-7 XC7VX415T-2FFG1157C FPGA (*X415T2C), 1.25GHz DSP cores frequency (1.25G), 2GB (256Mx64) DSP DDR3 memory (D2), 2Gb (128Mx16) DSP FLASH memory (F2), 128KB nonvolatile DSP MRAM memory (M128), 512Kb (64Kx8) DSP SEEPROM memory (E512), 2GB (256Mx64) FPGA DDR3 memory bank #1 (F1D2), 1GB (256Mx32) FPGA DDR3 memory bank #2 (F2D1), 100.000MHz fixed-frequency RefClk/AUX clock oscillator for FPGA GTH transceivers for AMC ports 4-7/8-11 (PCIe protocol) (A100.000M*), 8-bit FPGA XGPIO external I/O port (FI), FMC/HPC connector installed (FC), FPGA BBRAM (bitstream decryption key) battery (FB), stand-alone controller capability (SA), single-width mid-size AdvancedMC (AMC) module dimensions (MS), standard 10mm FMC mezzanine module stacking. Commercial ambient temperature range 0°С..+55°С.

Datasheets and Application Materials

		TORNADO-A6678/FMC® rev.1B AMC-module datasheet
		Presentation "New Devices for TORNADO-MTCA® MicroTCA Modular DSP Systems" (Rus)
		Presentation "RTOS Selection for TORNADO-MTCA® MicroTCA DSP Systems, Controllers and IoT" (Rus)
		Presentation "Comparing RTOS Performance" (Rus)
		Presentation "PICMG® MicroTCA Standard and its Specifics for DSP Applications" (Rus)
		Presentation "TORNADO-MTCA DSP Systems in MicroTCA Standard" (Rus)
		Presentation "TASDK® Software Development Tools for TORNADO-MTCA DSP Systems" (Rus)
		Paper in Russian 'Components and Technologies' magazine (Jan-2015): "TORNADO-A6678 AMC-module Applications in MicroTCA DSP Systems" (Rus)
		Paper in Russian 'Telecommunications' magazine (Jan-2015): "TORNADO-A6678 AMC-module Applications in MicroTCA DSP Systems" (Rus)
		Application note AN-TARxMTCA-1A (2016-01) (Rus): O.A.Vasiliev, P.A.Semyonov: "Distributed Multichannel Radiomonitoring Systems TORNADO-RxMTCA®"
		Paper in 'Information Security - Inside' magazine (Jan-2016): "Rubic's Radiocube: Building a Multichannel Radio Monitoring System"

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