Micro Memory Introduces CoSine FPGA PMC Compute Nodes

Based on the Xilinx V-4 LX200, LX160, and SX55 devices, the new MM-71xx series of Compute Nodes provide the most FPGA Processing Resources ever to be offered on a PMC form factor.

CHATSWORTH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Combining CoSine™, the industry’s most powerful preconfigured FPGA infrastructure, with the largest Xilinx® V-4® devices on the flexible, modular PMC form factor, Micro Memory® (www.micromemory.com) today introduced the MM-7105, MM-7110, and MM-7115 CoSine FPGA PMC Compute Nodes. These ground-breaking products include significant industry firsts including:

the first PMCs to offer over 89K FPGA Slices, with certain configurations exceeding 156K FPGA Slices,

the first PMCs to include over 600 Xtreme® DSP Slices,

the shortest possible customer development cycles based on the optional CoSine preconfigured FPGA infrastructure,

Each FPGA is equipped with additional Platform Flash to store secondary bitstreams for Reconfigurable Processing, and

Rugged Convection Cooled and Rugged Conduction Cooled models are readily available.
Targeting applications such as Synthetic Aperture and Phased Array Radar, Software Defined Radio, Signal Intelligence, and semiconductor and medical imaging, the MM-7105, MM-7110, and MM-7115 utilize V-4 FPGAs for DSP operations such as FFTs, filters, and image or data compression to provide significant performance benefits over conventional DSPs or general purpose embedded RISC processors.

“We’ve had the MM-7105 running successfully at a customer beta site since September. With the PMCs massive FPGA resources, our customer has been able to increase total processing performance for their image compression application while replacing several General Purpose Processing nodes, reducing board slot count, overall cost and power consumption. This is a major win for our customers who are often in highly space and power constrained embedded environments,” said Jason Beauvais, Eastern Regional Sales & Application Engineer.

The MM-7105 is the first rugged PMC to include the powerful V-4 LX200 FPGA from Xilinx, while the MM-7110 is the first PMC to combine the LX200 with a SX55, and the MM-7115 is the first PMC to combine the LX200 with a LX160. These configurations provide customers with the optimal platforms for logic or DSP intensive applications in the flexible, modular PMC (PCI Mezzanine Card) form factor.

The MM-71xx PMCs can be utilized on PowerPC® and x86 Single Board Computers, Altivec® DSP boards, A/D converters, graphic engines or any carrier that has a PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) site.

CoSine IP

The optional CoSine bitsream consists of a PCI/PCI-X bus interface, specialized PCI DMA engine, UPL DMA engine, and multi-ported DDR II memory controller with ECC. Unlike other solutions which only provide IP in the form of individual cores that require customers to perform complicated integration, the CoSine IP is optionally offered as a totally preconfigured solution with fixed IP placement and timing constraints to minimize customer development efforts.

The CoSine Development Kit includes a VHDL wrapper with well defined interfaces, extensive VHDL test benches and host system diagnostics in C for complete verification of custom User Programmable Logic (UPL) implementations. A demo program with a fully functional 1K FFT implementation is also provided with VHDL source code to the glue logic and wrapper interface that can serve as a working baseline and reference design. Extensive documentation such as the CoSine UPL Developer’s Guide is also included in the CoSine Development Kit.

Rugged Conduction and Convection Cooled Models

The MM-71xx series are offered in rugged convection cooled “DR” models and rugged conduction cooled “DT” models that each operate at temperatures of -40° C to +71° C. Both versions have been designed for optimal heat dissipation and deployment in environments that undergo severe shock and vibration. When fully configured with heat sinks, board stiffeners, and rugged mechanical components, each model is within the space constraints provided by the CMC/PMC draft standard, ANSI/VITA 20-2001 (R2005) for conduction cooled PMCs.

Pricing and Availability

Quantity one list pricing for the MM-71xx series is (US) $16,000. Models are currently available with six week lead times.

About Micro Memory

Micro Memory is a leading provider of board-level products for streaming signal and image processing, real-time data acquisition, and enterprise network storage. Headquartered in Chatsworth, Calif., the company’s innovative products solve challenging problems for industry-leading OEMs, Mil/Aero Defense Primes, and system solution providers. Additional information is available at www.micromemory.com or contact sales@micromemory.com or (US) 818.998.0070.