- 300MHz/1800 MFLOP peak performance with 300Mhz C6713, 32 bit floating/fixed
point precision
- Up to 256MB SDRAM, using conventional PC133 SDRAM SO-DIMM format
- Expansion connectors for prototyping, analog & digital I/O daughtercards
- 16 DSP DMA channels, 2 dedicated for host<->DSP transfers
- 66Mhz EMIF bus, direct link to MPC
- Up to 256MB, standard 3.3V, PC100/133 SDRAM in SODIMM format
- One 14 pin header for JTAG port
- Freescale MPC8313 communications controller, with 333Mhz e300 PPC core running
embedded Linux
- 66Mhz Local bus, direct link to DSP
- Up to 1GB, standard 1.8V, PC2-5300 DDR2 in SODIMM format
- Up to 256MB onboard Flash for Embedded Linux & file system
- PCI bus with Host/Arbiter and Agent/Slave modes, 32 bit DMA chaining bus master,
133MB/sec peak transfer rate
- Intelligent 10/100/1000 Mb Ethernet port
- 400Mb High Speed USB 2.0 port
- Legacy RS-232 port
- Up to 256MB NAND Flash memory for embedded Linux & virtual disk, expandable with
microSD flash card.
The SI-MPC-C6713DSP
card from Sheldon Instruments is a powerful dual
processor card equipped with a DSP for general
purpose development, and a communications controller
to service data transfers across a variety of ports.
The main 32 bit floating point processor for DSP
development is Texas Instruments' 300Mhz
TMS320C6713, while the controller is Freescale's
versatile PowerPC based MPC8313 controller that
integrates a 32 bit PCI bus, intelligent
10/100/1000Mb Ethernet port, as well as a 400Mb High
Speed USB 2.0 port.
With the Ethernet/USB high speed serial busses, the
card can operate in stand-alone mode with a seamless
communications link to any system, or be inserted
into a PC as an expansion card. A full line of
software development tools are available from
Sheldon Instruments, TI, and Freescale which include
compilers, assemblers, linkers, and debuggers.
A PowerPC MPC8313 microcontroller has an onboard e300 PowerPC core, tri-speed
10/100/1000Mb Ethernet, 400Mb USB, RS-232, and PCI ports for communicating with
the outside world, as well as a dedicated local bus reserved exclusively for
interfacing to the DSP. The e300 PowerPC core runs open-source embedded Linux
from a Flash disk and dedicated DDR2 memory, thus freeing the DSP for its
intended data processing tasks.
The intelligent tri-speed 10/100/1000Mb ethernet port seamlessly communicates
with any Ethernet ready system, coupled with the large onboard Flash, make it
ideal for stand-alone operation, internet monitoring, or to simply daisy chain
multiple DSP cards together over a remote connection for super high speed data
exchange. All major protocols, including TCP/IP and UDP, are supported in
embedded Linux. The PowerPC also has sufficient speed to sustain uninterrupted
sustained data transfer rates of up to 600Mbit/sec!
Similarly, also available is a 400Mb High Speed USB 2.0 port with a UTMI
interface (USB Transceiver Macrocell Interface) with Host/Device support, as
well a legacy RS232 serial port.
The MPC8313 acts as a bridge device between the DSP, interfaced to the MPC's
local bus, and all other onboard ports, namely the PCI bus and Ethernet/USB
serial links. As such, the MPC8313 effectively makes the host to DSP interface
appear as a transparent link, irrespective of the physical bus connection itself.
The MPC8313 can operate as either an agent/target plugged into a host's PCI bus,
or as a standalone unit connected to a host PC over one of the high speed serial
links, with its own PCI bus configured as a host/arbiter for further expansion
with other PCI adapter cards.
An onboard FPGA arbitrates the appropriate timing between the DSP's EMIF bus and
the MPC8313's local bus, with support for a myriad of data transfer schemes
involving programmed IO or DMA
The SI-MPC-C6713DSP is configured with ample memory resources.
For the DSP running its EMIF bus at 66Mhz, a conventional 144 pin SO-DIMM socket
is used to accommodate standard, 3.3V non-buffered PC100/PC133 SDRAM modules,
with up to 256MB capacity.
For the MPC running its dedicated DDR2 bus at 266Mhz, a conventional 200 pin
SO-DIMM socket is used to accommodate standard, 1.8V non-buffered, minimum speed
PC2-5300 DDR2 modules with up to 1GB capacity. An onboard NAND flash with up to
256MB of capacity is used to store embedded Linux, with plenty of storage for
any file type making it ideal for stand-alone operation. Storage is further
expandable with a microSD socket.
The SI-MPC-C6713DSP implements onboard glue logic with a
Xilinx Spartan 3E XC3S250E FPGA, which may be upgraded
with a pin compatible XC3S1200E with far more resources
available for custom development.
Separately, DSP expansion connectors allow for custom
designs, or for attaching 'off the shelf' multifunction
I/O modules from Sheldon Instruments. Sheldon
Instruments offers several expansion modules for
multichannel analog and digital I/O, including 4 to 64
channels of 16 bit ADCs and DACs.
The SI-MPC-C6713DSP is available with
extensive development tools from Sheldon Instruments,
TI, and Freescale.
For quick turnkey development, Sheldon Instruments
offers QuVIEW and QuBASE, which are a set of
DSP-resident libraries for real time performance that
greatly accelerate data acquisition, signal processing,
and control applications. QuVIEW is a real time
accelerator for LabVIEW, and QuBASE a real time
accelerator for Visual Basic. A full range of examples
and tutors are provided to demonstrate their ease of use
and breadth of functionality and capabilities. QuBASE
runs under Windows, while QuVIEW also runs under Linux.
When purchased as a development board, Sheldon
Instruments also includes comprehensive support with
extensive projects, utilities, and related source for
compiling applications and drivers for the host PC under
Windows and Linux, TI's CCS, and Freescale's board
support package.
Technical Specifications
