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Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) with Freescale quad core QorIQ® P3041

The NAMC-QorIQ-P3041 is a powerful single-width mid- or full-size AdvancedMC (AMC) processor board designed around the high-performance Freescale quad core P3041 with SATA, PCIe, SRIO and XAUI interface.

The NAMC-QorIQ-P3041 is designated for today’s packet oriented telecom applications such as LTE or VoIP. Additionally the NAMC-QorIQ-P3041 can be used as general purpose CPU in medical, industrial automation, defence & aerospace applications demanding high data throughput and multi-core processing power combined with dual SATA interfaces.

P3041
The P3041 is a multi-core packet processor offering four 32-bit e500mc cores with up to 1.5 GHz. It provides security and pattern match engines, sophisticated buffer and queue management hardware, and additionally various high speed serial data links.

The P3041’s e500mc cores can be combined as a fully-symmetric or as fully asymmetric multi-processing, system-on-a-chip. The ability of the cores to run different operating systems, or run OS-less, provides the user with significant flexibility in partitioning between control, datapath, and applications processing.

The P3041 packet processor is accompanied by a set of supporting hardware blocks for time keeping/tracking as well as for external protocol processing/conversion and acceleration. Dual SATA ports provide high-speed, low-cost storage options for statistics or large databases.

The combinations of storage interface, fat pipe combinations of PCIexpress, SRIO and XAUI address the need of applications of a cost-efficient solution compared to the P40 and P50 family members. The P3041 is designed for combined control and dataplane processing enabling high-performance Layer 2-7 processing.

The rich feature list of the P3041 CPU turns the NAMC-QorIQ-P3041 into a state-of-the-art packet processing board.

Thus, the board is ideally suited for applications in ATCA and MTCA environments.

Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) with Freescale QorIQ® P204x

The NAMC-QorIQ-P204x is a multi-service quad-core CPU board featuring various Ethernet interfaces, PCIe Gen2 and SRIO connectivity. If equipped with a P2041 CPU it even offers a 10Gbit/s Ethernet interface.
It is equipped with both software-based processing resources in the form of the Freescale QorIQ P2041/2040 CPU and hardware-based resources featured by a Lattice ECP3-17 FPGA.
The board offers a low power and a low cost Power PC based multi-core computing platform with extension options for adaptation to the particular application needs.
Form factor for this board is the Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) standard, offering access to the flexible and powerful system standards ATCA and μTCA.

Form Factor
– AMC: mid or full size

CPU Core
Freescale QorIQ P2040 or P2041
– Packet processor featuring 4x e500mc PowerPC Cores @ up to 1.5 GHz
– 10x SerDes
– 128 kb/core L2 cache
– 10 GbE-Interface (XAUI, P2041 only) via backplane

FPGA
– Lattice ECP3-17
Memory
– 1024 – 4096 MB DDR3 DRAM – 64 bit wide, ECC as option
– 128 – 1024 MB NAND Flash memory
– 32 – 128 MB NOR Flash memory
– 512 kB MRAM
– Micro SD-Card Slot

Backplane Interfaces
– XAUI (P2041 only), SRIO and PCIe to AMC fat pipe region
– 2x Gigabit Ethernet to AMC Ports 0/1
– 2x SATA to AMC Ports 2/3

Front Panel Interfaces
– 2x Gigabit Ethernet via RJ45 or SFP (assembly option)
– USB
– RS232

NAMC-ADSP

Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) CPU Board with either 8 or 16 Blackfin DSPs

The NAMC-ADSP is a multi-purpose (tele-)communication resource board in AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) form factor, being equipped with either 8 or 16 Blackfin DSPs from Analog Devices.

The NAMC-ADSP is targeted at applications in communication environments with extensive need for voice or data computation. The module is designed to process standard telecom algorithms like voice and data compression and decompression or DTMF detection and generation. The NAMC-ADSP is suitable for any voice/data application in any signalling or VoP solution such as in ISDN, SS7, ATM, VoIP or 3G environments are suitable.

The module is capable of handling individual timeslots transmitted via I-TDM protocol over backplane Gigabit-Ethernet. The design is optimized for handling in parallel as many timeslots (TDM data) as possible. The TDM data streams are supplied by a standard I-TDM backplane interface located on port 0 and port 1 (redundant configuration) or port 8 of the AMC connector.

AMC-Interface
– NAMC-16ADSP: single-width, mid- or full-size AMC module
– directly connection of the local bus and the on-board devices to the backplane via PCIe-X1 lane

Backplane I-TDM Access
– TSI (Time Slot Interchanger) and TDM-to-I-TDM bridge are incorporated in a ECP2M50 FPGA from Lattice
– flexible routing and multi-casting of 64kbps timeslots between the various DSPs (TSI)
– conversion of TDM oriented bit stream into Ethernet packets and vice versa via TDM-to-iTDM bridge
– sending and receiving of ethernet packets via a 1000BaseT-BX Ethernet interface
Each DSP handles up to 256 bidirectional TDM channels.
– up to 4096 timeslots of 64kbps bandwidth

DSP Resources
– NAMC-ADSP-8: eight ADSP-BF535P Blackfin CPUs from Analog Devices
– NAMC-ADSP-16: sixteen ADSP-BF535P Blackfin CPUs
– 32MB individual SDRAM
– 1MB individual FLASH
– Blackfin DSP core frequency: 350MHz
– Blackfin DSP: 700 MMACs (max.) and 3.5MIPS per TDM channel