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March 7, 2014

NAMC-STM1/4

Both the NAMC-STM1 and the NAMC-STM4 are telecommunications interface boards in AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) form factor.

The NAMC-STM1/4 is targeted at telecom applications dealing with Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH), such as SS7, ISDN or 3G/3.5G mobile applications in optical OC-12/STM-4 and SONET environments.

Being equipped with an add/drop multiplexer/
demultiplexer chipset the NAMC-STM1/4 is an ideal single board platform to interface between the frame oriented STM-4/SDH networks and classic TDM (Time Division Multiplex) standards as E1/T1/J1 or E3/T3/J3. Possible applications are i.e. add/drop or terminal mulitplexers.

March 7, 2014

NAMC-QorIQ-P40

High-End Communications Processor AdvancedMC® Board based on multi-core Freescale QorIQ P4080 and Virtex-6 FPGA.

N.A.T. presents the market’s most powerful single-width AdvancedMC® (AMC) processor board designed around the new octal-core Freescale QorIQ P4080 and Xilinx® Virtex-6 FPGA.

The single-width AMC board, NAMC-QorIQ-P40, combines the best of two worlds: Freescale’s octal PowerPC cores (e500mc) and Xilinx®’s Virtex-6 FPGA satisfying the constantly growing demand for high bandwidth and high performance in today’s protocol processing applications.

With up to 1,5GHz frequency, the NAMC-QorIQ-P40 delivers industry leading performance for MicroTCATM and AdvancedTCA® platforms in medical, aerospace and telecommunication market. The powerful communication processor is dedicated in particular for applications like long term evolution (LTE) equipment or Voice over IP (VoIP) applications requiring combined control and data plane processing enabling high-performance Layer 2-7 processing. Due to its performance and scalability the board also suits time critical data processing applications, i.e. for imaging and control.

The on-board Xilinx® Virtex®-6 FPGA, being one of today’s most sophisticated programmable devices, offers maximum flexibility for the implementation of custom specific requirements.

Besides a large portion of the FPGA being available for customer applications, N.A.T. provides a set of IP cores supporting ITDM, RTP / IEE1588 or PTP protocols. Any system clock can be derived from the internally processed protocols and provided to the system architecture by the standard AMC clocks.

N.A.T.’s NAMC-QorIQ-P40 provides two banks of 64-bit DDR3 DRAM Memory with up to 4GB each operating at 1.3 GHz data frequency.

At the front panel this AMC offers a XAUI at SFP+, GbE and USB 2.0 interface. A further distinctive feature of this AMC is the combination of two of the different fat pipe options (ports 4-7/8-11) like PCIexpress (PCIe), Serial Rapid IO (SRIO) or XAUI. In addition, the dual GbE (ports 0+1) and dual SATA (port 2+3) lanes offers highest flexibility in user designs and applications. The NAMC-QorIQ supports the key advantages of MTCA systems as full hot-swap capability and IPMI support for monitoring and controlling the module.

The NAMC-QorIQ-P40 is the latest processor board of N.A.T.’s QorIQ based product family offering next to the single-core P1011 and the dual-core P2020 now the advanced octal-core P4080.

March 7, 2014

NAMC-8569-xE1/T1

The NAMC-8569-xE1/T1 is an AMC board with a powerful Freescale Power QUICCIII MPC8569 processor providing access to multiple E1/T1 interfaces in next generation systems based on MTCA and ATCA standards. The TDM-to-I-TDM converter connects the on-board E1/T1 interfaces with a Gigabit Ethernet port for system interconnect (I-TDM).

The NAMC-8569-xE1/T1 is dedicated for (tele-)communication applications with extensive need for a high aggregation of multiple E1/T1 interfaces combined with access to switched networks based on high bandwidth Ethernet.

The NAMC-8569-8E1/T1 base board offers 8-1/T1 interfaces at the front panel and two 1GbE interfaces at the common options region of the AMC connector (ports 0/1). The optional mezzanine provides additional 8E1/T1 interfaces and expands the board to 16E1/T1, the NAMC-8569-16E1/T1.

The NAMC-8569-xE1/T1 is optimized to process standard telecom signaling protocols as well as special payload handling algorithms in next generation’s systems based on the MTCA
or ATCA standards. Extensive software support makes the NAMC-8569-xE1/T1 an ideal choice for any voice/data application in ISDN, SS7, ATM, VoIP or 3G environments.

– System Processor and Memory
– Freescale Power QUICCIII MPC8569
– e500 PowerPC core
– dedicated interface hardware
– 4 RISC cores
– core frequencies of 800, 1000 or 1333 MHz
– 128-1024 MB DDR2 SDRAM and 128 MB FLASH memory

– E1/T1 Access
– onboard DS 26518 framer
– access to 8/16-E1/T1 lines
– standard framing formats
– T1 Super Frame (SF)
– T1 Extended Super Frame (ESF),
– T1 Digital Multiplexer (DM)
– T1 Switch Line Carrier -96 (SLC-96)
– E1 G.704 and G.706 (CRC-4 multiframe)
– signal attenuation of up to -36db

– TDM and I-TDM Interface
– E1/T1 framer interfaces to on-board TSI chipset
– TSI and TDM-to-ITDM bridge (in ECP3 FPGA from Lattice)
– flexible routing
– multicasting of 64kbps timeslots
– TDM-to-ITDM bridge: converts TDM oriented bit stream into Ethernet packets and vice versa
– TSI: optional 32MHz clocked H.110-alike TDM backplane interface

-Fabric Support
-Fat Pipe
– 4 bidirectional serial lanes that can be operated either as PCIe, SRIO or a combination of both.

-Base Fabric
– two 1000BaseX interfaces at port 0 and 1

-Extender Mezzanines
– NAMC-8569-16E1/T1 with 8 additional E1/T1 lines at the front panel
– NAMC-8569-DS3/E with 4 DS3/E3 interfaces accessible via four RJ45 at the front panel