## BittWare T2-6U-cPCI Octal ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC CompactPCI Board Technical Overview
The BittWare T2-6U-cPCI is a high-performance 6U CompactPCI board engineered for demanding computational tasks. It integrates eight Analog Devices ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC processors, each capable of operating at up to 600 MHz, delivering significant floating-point and fixed-point processing power. The architecture is further enhanced by two Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs, which provide extensive flexibility for I/O routing, protocol translation, and algorithm implementation. This board is designed to offer high-bandwidth, low-latency off-board I/O capabilities and high-speed interprocessor communications, making it suitable for applications such as radar and sonar processing.
## Technical Specifications
### Processors
* **Digital Signal Processors (DSPs):** Eight Analog Devices ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC processors.
* **Clock Speed:** Up to 600 MHz per processor.
* **Peak Processing Power (Floating-Point):** 3.6 GFLOPS per DSP.
* **Peak Processing Power (16-bit Fixed-Point):** 14.4 BOPS per DSP.
* **Total Processing Power (Floating-Point):** 28.8 GFLOPS (8 x 3.6 GFLOPS).
* **Total Processing Power (16-bit Fixed-Point):** 115.2 BOPS (8 x 14.4 BOPS).
* **On-chip RAM:** 24 Mbits per DSP.
* **Architecture:** Static superscalar with dual computation blocks.
* **Data Formats:** Single-precision IEEE 32-bit, extended-precision 40-bit floating-point, and 8-, 16-, 32-, 64-bit fixed-point.
* **FPGAs:** Two Xilinx Virtex-II Pro (XC2VP30) FPGAs.
* **Functionality:** Routing communications, protocol translation, algorithm implementation, I/O interfacing.
### Memory
* **SDRAM:** Up to 512 MBytes of on-board SDRAM. The board features two large on-board banks of SDRAM.
* **Flash Memory:** Two 8 MByte banks of Flash memory for hostless boot.
### Interconnects and Communications
* **DSP Clusters:** Processors are arranged in two clusters of four.
* **Cluster Bus:** 64-bit, 83.3 MHz bus shared by the four processors in each cluster.
* **LVDS Link Ports:** Each DSP has four high-speed LVDS link ports.
* **Throughput:** Up to 500 MBytes/s per channel (4-bit transmit and 4-bit receive) for a total maximum throughput of 1 GByte/s per link port.
* **Interprocessor Communication:** Two link ports per DSP are used to form an interprocessor communications ring.
* **FPGA Connection:** Remaining two link ports per DSP are routed to the ATLANTiS FPGA, operating at 250 MBytes/s (125 MBytes/s per channel).
* **SharcFIN PCI-DSP Bridge:** Two SharcFIN chips, one per DSP cluster.
* **Functionality:** Provides low-overhead access to the host via the PCI interface, and access to peripherals like Flash and FPGA control registers.
* **Interface:** 64-bit, 66 MHz PCI interface.
* **ATLANTiS Architecture:** BittWare’s architecture combining TigerSHARC processing with Xilinx FPGAs for high performance and I/O bandwidth.
* **RocketIO Transceivers:** Eight RocketIO high-speed serial transceivers.
### Interfaces
* **CompactPCI (cPCI) Interface:** 6U CompactPCI form factor.
* **PCI Interface:** 64-bit, 66 MHz PCI interface via SharcFIN bridge.
* **PMC Sites:** Two PMC sites.
* **PMC+ Extensions:** Support BittWare’s PMC+ I/O extensions for adding additional processors and I/O capabilities.
* **Off-Board I/O:** High-bandwidth, low-latency, reconfigurable I/O capabilities.
* **Total Potential I/O Bandwidth:** Greater than 6 GBytes/s.
* **FPGA to Off-Board:** Each FPGA can communicate off-board at greater than 3 GBytes/s using its eight RocketIO transceivers and digital I/O blocks.
### Software and Development Tools
* **BittWorks II Toolkit:** Provides drivers, libraries, utilities, and example projects for software and FPGA development.
* **Supported Platforms:** 64-bit Windows and Linux.
* **API:** Consistent, intuitive API for system integration.
* **Utilities:** Includes BwHIL, BmcLib, BwConfig, BwServer, BwShell, BwMonitor for board control and monitoring.
* **Development Environments:** Support for Analog Devices VisualDSP++ and potentially third-party tools like SDL’s DSPdeveloper with MATLAB integration.
* **Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS):** Support for Analog Devices’ VisualDSP Kernel (VDK) and Enea’s OSEck RTOS.
### Physical
* **Form Factor:** 6U CompactPCI.
Why Choose Aumictech for the BittWare T2-6U-cPCI Octal ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC CompactPCI Board?
At Aumictech, we specialize in supplying high-end signal processing and embedded computing equipment. Whether you need robust TigerSHARC processing for complex algorithms, flexible FPGA-based I/O for diverse applications, or scalable interprocessor communications for high-performance computing, our team ensures the BittWare T2-6U-cPCI delivers maximum performance for your radar, sonar, or other demanding applications.
