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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.

Processor AMC based on Freescale QorIQ P4080

Data Plane Processor AMC module

The AM4140 is a data plane CPU board implemented as Single Mid-Size Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) for MicroTCA applications. The design is based on the Freescale QorIQ P4080 8-Core processor, with cores based on the e500 Power Architecture®. Due to the P4080 processor, the AM4140 meets highest demands in multi-threaded processing: in combination with high-speed fabrics and frame handlers, the multi-core architecture allows high throughputs, as well as low latencies. To match demands on high-performance, the AM4140 provides a high-speed dual-channel memory with up to 8 GB ECC-RAM. In order to grant reliability of the application, the AM4140 features redundant U-Boot.

– Freescale QorIQ P4080 – 8-core CPU @ 1.5GHz
– Serial Rapid IO, PCIe and 1/10GbE fabrics
– Fast dual-channel memory (up to 8 GB RAM with ECC)
– Useable in managed (with MCH) and unmanaged (without MCH) systems
– Long life cycle beyond 7 years

The AMC-4201 is a single-width, mid-size AMC based on the Freescale P4080 processor. It combines eight Power Architecture® e500-mc Cores operating at frequencies up to
1.5 GHz with high-performance, datapath acceleration logic, extensive networking I/O, and peripheral bus interfaces. It combines powerful multi-Core Power Architecture performance
with network processing capabilities, and builds on the communications ubiquity of Freescale’s QorIQ® product family. AMC-4201 provides 4 and 8 GB build options for onboard
DDR3 memory at 1333 MHz with ECC support. One front-panel 10GbE SFP+ connector provides network access in addition to a front panel console and debug port.
The unique SERDES design supports up to four different AMC port configurations for a mix of SRIO, PCIe, XAUI and SGMII channels. This makes the AMC extremely versatile and
caters to a wider range of MicroTCA or ATCA Carrier topologies beyond just telecom applications. 4 MB SPI Flash and 2 GB NAND Flash provide onboard options for software and
storage. The AMC also provides 8 KHz and 19.44 MHz telecom clock synchronization support.