VPF2 PowerPC MPC8641D, Dual User Programmable Virtex-5 FPGA VXS Digital Signal Processor

The VPF2 is a high performance hybrid processing engine coupling a dual Power Architecture MPC8641D with two latest generation Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs. With its combination of high performance CPU and latest generation twin FPGAs, this DSP product provides leading edge performance with flexible high-bandwidth I/O. This VXS board is available in both air-cooled or conduction cooled versions with VxWorks or Linux board support packages. The VPF2 also supports the Transcomm toolkit of FPGA HDL blocks for implementing the communication fabric needed in applications running on systems of interconnected FPGAs.

Architecturally, the VPF2 is a quad processor Digital Signal Processing engine for VME/VXS (VITA-41). Two of these processor elements are combined into a single, highly integrated Freescale Power Architecture MPC8641D CPU. The other two processors are the two Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA devices. It is this CPU/FPGA combination that makes the VPF2 so powerful by leveraging the advantages of each technology. The FPGAs also maintain the VXS/VITA 41 multi-gigabit serial communications. Both FPGAs are user programmable and VMETRO provides tools, examples and utilities to simplify code development.

Input/output is provided through a number of channels including copper or fiber Ethernet ports, XMC/PMC for a wide choice of I/O options, RS232 ports or VXS serial I/O for interboard communications along with a VME64 bus. Direct FPGA I/O is also provided through a parallel backplane-connected port for very high I/O speed.