PM432: Stratix II GX FPGA PMC Module with four HSSDC2 connectors and 90Mb ZBT RAM

The PM432 is a single PMC module that leverages on ALTERA® Stratix® II GX FPGA technology to provide a high-speed, high-bandwidth processing platform, ideally suited for Software Defined Radio (SDR), WiMAX, Radar, Video, as well as other computation and bandwidth intensive applications.

An EP2SGX90 Stratix II GX FPGA implements a processing node with an unprecedented combination of serial I/O bandwidth, logic and memory resources and DSP performance. Four Stratix II GX transceiver channels each provide up to 3.125 Gbps full-duplex bandwidth via HSSDC2 front panel connectors. Five 512Kx36 (18Mb) ZBT® memories individually connect to the Processing FPGA, yielding 2.66 GBytes/sec of memory bandwidth.

An ALTERA® EP1S10 Stratix® FPGA implements a PCI-to-Local-Bus bridge with a 64-bit 66MHz PCI bus interface, supporting maximum PCI bandwidth to and from the Processing FPGA via separate 64-bit Target and DMA busses. From Pn4, 64 PMC user I/Os connect to the Processing FPGA.  The EP2SGX90 configuration data is stored in on-board Flash memory that is programmable via the PCI bus.

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