3G prototyping and high-speed data acquisition development platform
22 September 2004
Computer/Embedded Technology
Sundance's advanced signal processing and wireless technologies research and engineering group has revealed a cutting-edge development and experimental platform for the wireless and telecommunication markets. The SMT8090 is the result of the company's strong R&D heritage and multidisciplinary engineering group. It provides telecommunication designers with a highly integrated solution blending state-of-the-art digital signal processing (DSP) processors, FPGA, and high throughput converters in a single, compact, and integrated environment.
Comments Dr Nory Nakhaee, CEO of Sundance: "With the SMT 8090, Sundance is providing wireless and telecommunication system developers a pre-production prototype system platform that gives a unique cost cutting advantage. It helps reduce their development and time window by allowing them to immediately and rapidly test their 3G wireless designs without fumbling through long learning curves."
The SMT8090 is an integration feat where two daughter-cards (SMT338-VP and SMT390) are sandwiched together on a carrier board that ensures PCI connectivity. For signal, and reconfigurable processing, the system integrates two Texas Instruments floating-point 225 MHz TMS320C6713 processors harmonised in a well-balanced architecture with a powerful Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA that integrates two 400 MHz IBM PowerPC processors, and eight 3,125 Gbps full duplex serial transceivers.
Supported by 256 MB of SDRAM for the TI DSP and 128 MB for the Xilinx FPGA, the SMT8090 sports an 8 MB Flash ROM for boot code FPGA configuration and 'standalone' application, while I/O are articulated around two high-speed and high bandwidth Sundance high-speed buses (SHB). Leveraging LVDS signals built into the Virtex-II Pro FPGA, Sundance's R&D engineering developed a novel interface approach that separates control functions from noise-sensitive digital acquisition semiconductors. Two 12-bit, high speed ADCs sampling up to 210 MHz are integrated on the daughterboards, and are optimised for dynamic performance in wide and broadband systems.
The SMT8090 was designed to meet the needs of OEMs who require a long-lasting, flexible, and well integrated development platform to be used in a variety of embedded communication applications. Sundance says it has carefully chosen the processing components and architecture, ensuring that OEMs can cost-effectively leverage the SMT8090 flexibility in more than one implementation.
For more information contact Hendri Veldman, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology, 0944 1494 793194, [email protected]
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