Date: 08/10/2012

BittWare’s Stratix V 6U OpenVPX COTS FPGA board is now available

BittWare has announced the availability of the 6U VPX board powered by Altera's 28-nm Stratix V FPGAs. The S5-6U-VPX (S56X) is a rugged VITA 65 6U VPX card offering a configurable 48-port multi-gigabit transceiver interface supporting a variety of protocols, including Serial RapidIO, PCI Express, and 10GigE, and two VITA 57 FMC sites for enhancing the board's I/O and processing capabilities. When combined with the optional BittWare Anemone floating-point co-processors, the board provides for those applications requiring flexible FPGA processing in a rugged form factor.

"The Stratix V is an extremely powerful FPGA, providing a tremendous amount of logic, memory, and multipliers, coupled with a large number of multi-gigabit transceivers," stated Ron Huizen, VP of Technology at BittWare. "Providing two of these FPGAs on a proven, fully-validated, VITA 65 OpenVPX COTS platform, with each Stratix V having access to a full FMC site for adaptable I/O and an Anemone co-processor for floating point, as well as the ARM for overall board control, makes for an extremely powerful board ready for deployment."

"BittWare and Altera have a long history of working closely together to provide high-performance, reconfigurable FPGA-based COTS boards to the industry," said David Gamba, director of Altera's military and computing business unit. "By leveraging the Stratix V GS FPGA's floating point DSP blocks, which deliver up to one TeraFLOP of computing performance, combined with the FPGA's low-power, multi-gigabit transceivers and a high-density, high-performance architecture, BittWare's S56X board delivers a rugged and completely flexible signal processing solution capable of driving innovative new capabilities previously unseen in military applications."

Overview of S5-6U-VPX:
1. Two high density Stratix V GX/GS FPGAs
2. Two VITA 57 FMC sites for processing and I/O expansion
3. 800 MHz ARM Cortex-A8 control processor
4. Two Anemone floating point co-processors (optional)
5. 48 multi-gigabit transceivers
6. Up to 8 GBytes on-board DDR3 memory
7. Misc. I/O includes: GigE, SerDes, LVDS, RS-232

BittWare's S56X is available now.

Source: BittWare