Unitronix FPE320 3U VPX FPGA processor board

The FPE320 is a 3U VPX FPGA processor board that incorporates the largest Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs available with an FMC mezzanine site. Providing big resources in a small, rugged form factor, the board is a suitable FPGA platform for 3U systems that need to acquire analog and other high-speed I/O or need a large FPGA processor.

FPGAs have been adopted for their processing capability, as well as their ability to fit this capability in reduced size, weight and power (SWaP) constraints.

The inherent parallelism of FPGAs makes them suitable for a variety of image and signal processing applications that have historically been satisfied with a large array of general-purpose processors. When complex algorithms are partitioned into FPGAs, users can see increases in performance that can lead to a reduction in slot count and system cost.