Serial RapidIO Product Selection Guide



As an innovator, VMETRO began product development using (parallel) RapidIO in 2003. After several years of developing products utilizing serial and parallel RapidIO, VMETRO now offers a variety of Xilinx FPGA and Freescale MPC8641D PowerPC based products.

6U VPX and VPX-REDI Products
 HPE720 VPX Hybrid PowerPC MPC8641D and Virtex-5 FPGA Processor Board Block Diagram HPE720 Hybrid Processing Engine with a MPC8641D and Dual Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs
  • Single or Dual-core Freescale MPC8641D processor at 1.0/1.25/1.33 GHz
  • Dual Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs (LX110/220/330T, SX240T or FX200T options)
  • Dual FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC/VITA 57) sites OR 1 FMC and 1 XMC/PMC site
  • Serial RapidIO connectivity
  • 6U VPX/VPX-REDI form factor
  • Supports FusionIPC Software Suite


VPX-REDI
MPE730 Block Diagram MPE730 Quad-Core PowerPC Multi-Processing Engine
  • Dual Freescale MPC8641D Processors with support for 1.0, 1.33 and 1.5GHz clock rate
  • Dual PMC/XMC Mezzanine sites with support for PCIe x8, PCI/PCI-X & Serial RapidIO x4
  • Up to 2GB of DDR2 memory per processor, or 4GB of memory per board
  • Full Serial RapidIO fabric connectivity
  • Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA System Control Node for chassis management
  • Supports FusionIPC Software Suite
MPE730
VPX-REDI
 SBC731 Block Diagram SBC731 Single Board Computer
  • Freescale MPC8641D Processor with support for 1.0, 1.33 and 1.5 GHz clock rate
  • Dual PMC/XMC Mezzanine sites with support for PCIe x8, PCI/PCI-X & Serial RapidIO x4
  • Up to 2GB of DDR2 memory
  • Full Serial RapidIO fabric connectivity
  • Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA System Control Node for chassis management
  • Supports FusionIPC Software Suite
 SBC731
VPX-REDI
 MFC700 6U VPX Buffer Memory Node block diagram

MFC700 Buffer Memory Node

  • Up to 32GB DDR2 memory in a single slot (4-16GB baseboard, with two 2-8GB XMC Mezzanine sites)
  • Four x4 high-speed Serial RapidIO™ links to the P1 VPX connector and low-speed I/Os to the backplane
  • On-board 8 port Serial RapidIO switch
  • Dual Xilinx® Virtex®-5 FPGA memory controllers
  • DDR2 SDRAM with ECC
  • Additional RocketIO connections between FPGAs and the backplane
  • System Control Node FPGA
  • Air and conduction cooled options

MFC700 6U VPX Buffer Memory Node 

VPX-REDI
MM-16x0 Block Diagram MM-16x0 Intelligent IO Carrier
  • 2x CoSine 2VP100 System-on-Chips
  • 2x Xilinx Virtex-4 SX55 or LX160 CoSine Companion Devices
  • 2x PMC/XMC sites
  • 14 Independent memory arrays with total bandwidth of over 40GBps
  • 4x Embedded PowerPC processors
  • Complete Serial RapidIO x4 connectivity
  • 6U VPX (VITA-46) form factor
  • Rugged air-cooled and conduction-cooled variants
MM-1600 Intelligent IO Carrier
MM-1200 Block Diagram MM-1200 Intelligent IO Carrier
  • 2x CoSine 2VP100 System-on-Chips
  • 2x PMC/XMC sites
  • 6 Independent memory arrays with total bandwidth of over 6GBps
  • 4x Embedded PowerPC processors
  • Complete Serial RapidIO x4 connectivity
  • 6U VPX (VITA-46) form factor
  • Rugged air-cooled and conduction-cooled variants
MM-1200 Intelligent Carrier for sRIO
VPX/VITA 46

3U VPX Products

FPE320 3U VPX Virtex-5 FPGA Processor Board Block Diagram

FPE320 Xilinx Virtex-5 3U VPX Processor with FMC Site

  • Supports Xilinx Virtex-5 SXT, LXT and FXT FPGAs
  • FMC (VITA 57) mezzanine site for I/O
  • DDR2 SDRAM and QDRII SRAM memory resources
  • Four x4 high-speed serial interconnects to the backplane for PCI Express, Aurora or Serial RapidIO
  • Additional low-speed I/Os to the backplane
  • FusionXF Development Kit for HDL development
  • 3U VPX with .8” Pitch
  • Air and conduction cooled options

FPE320 3U VPX FPGA Processor Board

VPX technology

Software
  FusionIPC Inter-Processor Communications Software Suite
  • Developed for real-time, Distributed Multi-Processing (DMP) Applications
  • Designed for low overhead and close control of hardware resources
  • Based on scalable fabric endpoints, Shared Memory Buffers (SMBs), POSIX or Linux standards, and open platforms
  • Utilizes DMA, Zero Copy implementation – avoids excessive data copying
  • Dynamic and Abstract Configuration Management as opposed to Static and Geographical
  • Well defined User API provides Distributed DMA and Distributed Name Service
FusionIPC

6U VXS Products
MM-15x0 Block Diagram

MM-15x0 Intelligent Carrier for sRIO & Dual Virtex-4 FPGA Processing Engine

  • Processors
    • Dual CoSine 2VP100 System-on-Chips with Quad Embedded PowerPCs
    • Dual Virtex-4 SX55 or LX160 Companion Devices for UPL
  • Complete sRIO x4 connectivity
  • Dual XMC/PMC sites
  • Air & conduction-cooled
MM-15x0 Intelligent Carrier
VXS

XMC Modules
MM-6171 Block Diagram MM-6171 2-4GB DDR2 SDRAM Buffer Memory XMC
  • 2-4 GB High-speed DDR2 SDRAM
  • x4 Serial RapidIO® or x8 PCI Express® interfaces
  • Full-featured DMA engine
  • Rugged convection and conduction-cooled versions
MM-6171 Buffer Memory XMC