CHAMP-AV6 VPX Quad PowerPC 8641 Integrated Circuits

• Quad PowerPC 8641/8641D processors at up to 1.0GHz
• Up to 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM with ECC per processor
• Each processor has dual 64-bit memory banks
• VPX-REDI format (1" pitch)  with 4  Serial RapidIO  ports on P1 connector and option for one PCI Express port
• 512Mbytes Flash with write-protection
• 128 Kbytes NVRAM
• One XMC site supporting PCI Express
• Gigabit Ethernet to all processors with on-board switch
• VxWorks 6.x BSP and Driver Suite supporting Workbench 2.x IDE
• IPC inter-processor communications library
• Continuum Vector DSP function library with VSIPL support
• Continuum Software Architecture (CSA) firmware providing a comprehensive suite of system debug, exerciser, and update functions, BIT, and non-volatile memory sanitization function
  Designed for military harsh-environment applications, both air- and conduction-cooled

Features

The visualization and instrumentation tools improve software development efficiency with system management and multi-processor real-time analysis.

The  provides a comprehensive set of DSP functions optimized for the Altivec floating point vector processor.

The provides applications with hardware abstraction, allowing all task-to-task communications to have a consistent interface, removing dependencies on operating system, local architectures, and interconnect technology.

Supporting VxWorks 6.3 and future releases, the  provides a complete set of functions to control the AV6 hardware features. Employing the Continuum Software Architecture standard, the BSP has common and portable APIs with all the latest generation Curtiss-Wright products

The CHAMP-AV6 is supported with the Continuum suite of software development tools including board support packages, communications middleware, DSP libraries and multi-processor instrumentation and analysis tools.

Software Development for the CHAMP-AV6

The CHAMP-AV6 utilizes the VPX-REDI format to unleash the tremendous I/O bandwidth of its eight FreeScale PowerPC 8641 processor cores (Four 8641D dual-core processors). The local and off-board Serial RapidIO interfaces provide up to 10X the communications bandwidth that was achievable with the VME format. Signal processing applications with streaming dataflows will benefit greatly from the dual 64-bit DDR2 memory subsystem associated with each 8641.