Military Embedded Systems - Fall 2005 - Volume 1 Number 2

New Products
www.mil-embedded.com/products
Carrier board: PMC 56
Chips & Cores: FPGA 56
Connector: Other 56
Data acquisition 56
DSP resource boards: PCI-X 56
DSP resource boards: PCI/ISA 58
DSP resource boards: PMC 58
Fabrics: Fibre Channel 58
Fabrics: PICMG 2.16 Ethernet 58
Generators: Function/waveform 58
MIL-STD-1553 58
PCMCIA/PC Card 59
Processor: PowerPC 59
Routers/Switches 60
Server 60
Software-defined radio 60
Software: Modeling tool 60
Turnkey system 61
Video: Frame grabber 61
Carrier board: PMC
N.A.T. GmbH
Website: www.nateurope.com
Model: NcPCI-PMC RSC No: 21630
Chips & Cores: FPGA
SBS Technologies, Inc.
Website: www.sbs.com
Model: TS-CPCI-8001 RSC No: 21058
High-performance, FPGA-based computing platform
for demanding signal and image processing
applications • Suitable for SDR, sonar, and other
high-performance signal processing applications
• Dual Stratix EP1S80 FPGAs onboard • Two PMC
sites with 1 GBps high-speed data paths to each
FPGA • 8 GBps connection between FPGAs for a
common processor fabric • Windows XP/2000,
Linux, and Integrity software support
Connector: Other
Molex, Inc.
Website: www.molex.com
Model: Optical Military Cables RSC No: 21189
By Sharon Schnakenburg
Data acquisition
Great River Technology, Inc.
Website: www.greatrivertech.com
Model: Gravity 64/32 HOTlink II Data RSC No: 21376
Flexible, off-the-shelf solutions for high-speed,
point-to-point data transfer using HOTLink II Fibre
Channel • Supports baud rates from 200 Mbps to
1.5 GBps • Variety of uses includes engineering
development and factory test of HOTLink based
interfaces • Can be used with almost any customerdefined
HOTLink protocol, with data rates of 160
Mbps to 1.5 GBps • Flexible connector options
• Fiber option single or dual channel, FCN single or
dual channel, or SMA • Flexible protocols • Users
can select one of three modes: 4 byte packets,
variable length packets, or fixed length packets
DSP resource boards: PCI-X
Signatec, Inc.
Website: www.signatec.com
Model: PMP1000 RSC No: 21253
PCI interface and compliance: Intel i21555 PCI-to-
PCI bridge (66 MHz, 64-bit), PCI Rev. 2.2 • H.110
bus: Agere T8110 TSI, H.110 on CompactPCI
J4 connector, SCbus on PMC P14 connector •
PMC slots: two 64-bit/66 MHz PCI Rev.2.2 IEEE
P1386.1/Draft 2.4a compliant PMC slots on the
PCI internal bus, I/O P14 connector used as SCSA
bus connected to the T8110 TSI H.110 device •
Full hot swap capability • Power consumption:
3.3 V, 0.5 A (typical), 5 V, 0.1 A (typical) • 0 °C to
+60 °C operating temperature range, with forced
air cooling • Standard compliance: PCI Rev. 2.2,
PICMG 2.1 R2.0, PICMG 2.5 R1.0, IEEE P1386.1/
Draft 2.4a
Military-style connector solutions available with
fiber optic MIL-T-19504 approved termini, coupled
with COTS cabling and fiber optic connectors
• Suitable for a variety of military, avionics, flight
control, mobile tactical field command platforms,
EMI-sensitive, and security applications • Utilizes
ruggedized connectors designed for harsh environments
• Various finish types offered with plug,
jam-nut, and wall-mount receptacle options • Can
be terminated to both single-fiber and ribbon cable,
available in 2- to 29-pin configurations to meet
MIL-STD-1560 requirements • Custom lengths for
COTS cabling and fiber routing options
Parallel DSP Board • 72 GIPS peak processing
power • Continuous input data processing up to
1000 MBps (depending on application) • Up to
nine TI C6414 DSPs • 64 MB memory in each
of eight main processing DSPs, totaling more
than 512 MB DSP memory • Unique program
execution processor for dynamic thread allocation
• Advanced parallel DSP OS simplifies user
programming • Customizable external interface
for accommodating any type of user data channels
• 2.5 GBps of total external I/O via three
interfaces • 2600 MBps internal I/O via switching
network • 64-bit PCI-X local bus full-length board
• Designed to create true high-speed, real-time
systems in otherwise non-real-time environments
(such as PCs)
56 / October 2005 Military EMBEDDED SYSTEMS