VXS DSP FMC Carrier
Project description
The VXS DSP FMC Carrier is an FMC carrier that can hold two FMC cards. The FMC mezzanine slot uses a high-pin count connector (as opposed to the OHR developments Simple PCIe FMC carrier, FMC PCIe Carrier (PFC) and the VME FMC carrier.
This board is optimised for the functionality required by RF applications and will be usable with most of the FMC cards designed within the OHR project (e.g. ADC cards, Fine Delay).
Other FMC projects and the FMC standard are described in FMC Projects.
Main Features
to be revised*
- 2 Spartan6 FPGA
o One dedicated to system tasks (S-FPGA)
o One fully available for the user applications (A-FPGA) - 1 Analog Devices Sharc DSP
- 2 HPC (High Pin Count) FMC slots
- 40 user defined single ended (20 LVDS) connections from the A-FPGA to P2 available for rear plug-in units (transition modules)
- flexible clocking resources
o 1 Voltage Controlled Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillator (VCTCXO)
o 1 any rate I2C programmable crystal oscillator
o 1 Direct Digital Synthesizer (DDS)
o 3 Phase Locked Loop (PLL) chips for clock cleaning and redistribution to the FPGAs and the pluggable modules - Large amount of on board memory
o 2 completely independent 72Mbit ZBT SRAMS
o A 2Gbit DDR3
o 2 SPI 128Mbit flash proms for multiboot S-FPGA powerup configuration, storage of the A-FPGA firmware or of critical data - Front panel connectivity
o 2 Small Formfactor Pluggable (SFP)
o 4 lemos configurable in all possible input/output combinations
o 1 e-SATA (to be confirmed)
Detailed project information
Status
Date | Event |
13-09-2010 | Start of project. Design will partially be based on the VME FMC carrier. |
John Molendijk, Erik van der Bij - 13 September 2010