Overview
The SigC641x-PTMC board achieves a new mark in high-density DSP resources, providing the highest
level of general-purpose, programmable MIPS per square mm of any board on the market, in any
form-factor. Previous generation boards provided single, dual, or quad C64xx processing; the
new generation SigC64xx series scales from single to octal C64xx.
Targeted at voice, video, and
wireless applications, C64xx series DSP devices excel at a new
generation of " convergence applications", sometimes referred to as "triple play", that require a
high-performance fixed-point processing architecture with high amount of memory and multiple paths
of high-speed I/O. The SigC641x-PTMC is a flexible, programmable number crunching machine that excels equally well at video codec processing, base-station processing, software radio, and VoIP.
The SigC641x-PTMC board is a PMC form-factor board 1. It includes all
necessary onboard power generation. The board is compliant with IEEE
P1386.1 (PMC) and PICMG 2.15 (PTMC) standards, usable with a wide range of
cPCI, ATCA, VME, and other host platforms, including:
cPCI (compact PCI) carrier board
ATCA (Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture) board
VME carrier board
desktop PCI, using PMC-to-PCI adapter
stand-alone, with 5V and 3.3V power
The HW400c/M board from One Stop System is an example of a PTMC-compatible, PowerPC-based cPCI carrier board. When combined with a
T3 interface daughtercard, a complete, single-slot "Triple Play Server on a Blade" solution is possible.
The SigC641x-PTMC fully supports Texas Instruments tools for developing
real-time, C code based algorithms, including Code Composer Studio (CCS)
software, XDS 510 and XDS 560 based JTAG emulators, DSP/BIOS operating
systems, and CSL (chip support library) for C64xx devices.
Host software support includes WinXP and Linux drivers, and DirectDSP
software API. Host platform software options include:
Linux -- PowerPC or desktop
WinXP, Win2k, Win9x
self-managed unit, with no host software communication
SigC641x-PTMC highlights include:
PMC form-factor board, compliant with PICMG 2.15 (PTMC) electrical
specifications and IEEE 1386.1 (PMC) mechanical specification
DSP Farm with up to eight (8) 6414, 6415 or 6416 DSPs, with 600 or 720 MHz, 1 GHz
speed options
4, 8, or 16M x 32 dedicated SDRAM per processor
supports PTMC configurations 2, 3, and 5
high-performance PCI-to-HPI32 interface allows host communication direct to DSP memory
while real-time applications continue to run
TDM interface with up to 4096 time-slots
GbE interface, with network switch connection to DSP Farm
10/100 front-panel interface
high capacity, low-noise onboard power generation
