Board applications include:

• Evaluation systems based on Stratix FPGAs and DSP processors;

• DSP applications;

• Imaging, machine vision & image recognition;

• System hardware acceleration;

• Cellular base station equipment;

• Test equipment;

• Digital imaging, medical imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, satellite imaging;

• Aerospace and military systems;

• Rapid protoryping;

• Algorithm design and verification;

Technology

• ALTERA STRATIX 40 and Cyclone 12 FPGA packages and TI TMS320C6414(600) DSP processors.

• PCI standard interface using Altera's PCI core, implemented on an additional device.

Key features

• Up to four Altera STRATIX 40, one Altera Cyclone 12 and up to four TI TMS320C6414(600) devices on a single board for custom user logic implementations.

• Supported by Gidel PROC Developer's Kit .

• Standard PCI interface using Altera PCI IP 32/64 bit 33/66MHz (realized on additional device).

• 8 DMA channels maintaining up to 420 MHz transfer rate.

• Six-leveled memory structure:

1. Up to 1536 M512 RAM blocks (32 x 18 bits).

2. Up to 784 M4K RAM blocks (128 x 36 bits).

3. Up to 16 MegaRAM blocks (4K x 144 bits).

4. Up to four 64MB DDR blocks (1M x 64bits) with innovative controller, enabling parallel access to up to 64 ports, at 7.2 GB/s sustain rate.

5. Two DDR SODIMMS, supporting up to 1 GB of external memory each. These SODIMMS can also be accessed via the innovative MultiPort controller.

6. Up to four DSP-private SDRAMs (64 MB each)

• CameraLink in+out for machine vision, supporting base, medium and full modes.

• Up to 140 additional I/O connections.

• Up to 12 RS422 transmitters / receivers.

• RS232 interface.

• Five MICTOR debug connectors.

• Flexible clocking system for various on-board clocks: main clock, local bus clock, clk2 (internal or external), a clock for each memory bank and direct clocks between the daughter cards and the STRATIX devices.

The PROC DSP architecture, with Gidel’s powerful PROC Developer's Kit, offers an incredible improvement of time-to-market, as it eliminates the need for board design, the PCI application driver, board constrains (such as pin-outs) and a memory controller. This enables designers to focus on their proprietary value-added design instead of spending their valuable effort on re-creating standard design components.

Supported operation systems

• Microsoft Windows;

• Linux.

Re-Configuration

• PROC_DSP boards can be easily re-configured by user's software. The re-configuration is accomplished simply by closing the current class object and opening a new application driver object. The board can alternatively be re-configured by calling the Load_IC method or using the PROCWizard development tool in order to merely replace a specific device.

• The application drivers are automatically generated by PROCWizard.
• The rapid parallel access to on-board DRAM and DDR II memories can also be reconfigured using the PROC Multiport controller.

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