Sundance SMT166 dual-FPGA development platform

Sundance Multiprocessor Technology has launched the SMT166 dual-FPGA platform for R&D into the use of large FPGAs for high-performance reconfigurable computing and large-scale embedded systems applications, as well as system-on-chip (SoC) simulation.

The device, which can be integrated into a 19″ rack, is designed around two Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs. Each FPGA is responsible for routing data to and from half the Sundance Local Bus (SLB) connections on the board. In addition, parallel and serial connections are available for inter-FPGA communications.

The product supports up to four SLB mezzanine modules with a wide range of options available from Sundance, such as a multi-ADC system with 16 channels of 14-bit, 250 MHz ADC inputs; an octal channel SDR platform; or a complete MIMO 8 x 8 RF transceiver set-up. The unit supports the company’s 12-core DSP module, which provides over 10,000 MIPS of fixed-point DSP processing power.

An optional interface to FMC modules allows users to select from a range of add-on modules to suit a wide variety of applications. Each FPGA on the product is coupled with two banks of DDR3 memory and also supports an identical set of peripheral interfaces, including gigabit ethernet, dual SATA 3.1, one lane PCIe cable, four lane PCIe cable and RS232. A single USB 2.0 interface facilitates FPGA programming during development phases.