Ensemble BCE-100 FPGA AdvancedTCA Compute Blade

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The Ensemble™ BCE-100 FPGA AdvancedTCA® Compute Blade combines 10 field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) with AdvancedTCA technology to deliver massive, continuous, and reliable compute density for the most demanding applications. Leveraging Mercury’s unique expertise in signal processing system design optimization and FPGA communications infrastructure, the innovative StreamFDK on the BCE-100 FPGA Compute Blade facilitates the distribution of application data among the FPGAs through a series of processing stages, and manages the data paths to and from the application.

The BCE-100 is ideal for various beamforming applications, in satellite communications, radar, base stations, and signal processing applications that require massive compute density. In a fully configured system, 12 BCE-100 FPGA Compute Blades in an AdvancedTCA chassis can interconnect more than 100 of Xilinx’s latest generation FPGAs, delivering one of the highest performing FPGA compute platforms in existence.

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	Features		Benefits		Specifications

Features

10 Xilinx® FPGAs onboard
Supports up to a 12-slot configuration
Integrated QowerQUICC™ III processor
StreamSDK coordinates processing resources
Fiber-optic rear transition module feeds and offloads data
MPC8548 host controller
IPMI peripheral manager

Specifications

FPGA infrastructure
Five Xilinx Virtex FX60 at 400 MHz FPGAs for I/O and compute
Four Xilinx Virtex SX55 at 400 MHz FPGAs for compute
SelectMAP interface wired to MPC8548 for reprogramming the FPGAs (FX12 interface)
Configuration ring-bus mastered by MPC8548 for loading data to FPGA (FX12)

MPC8548 host controller
400-MHz platform clock, 1000-MHz e500 core clock
Unbuffered SO-DIMM DDR2 Socket (x64) 1 GB, 200 MHz
32 Mx32 flash
Front-panel RS-232 debug serial port
Front-panel 10/100/1000 Ethernet port
Dual 10/100/1000 Ethernet to base specification backplane connector
Front-panel USB interface
12 user-definable bi-colored LEDs
32-bit local bus interface to FX12 configuration FPGA

Front-panel interface
One 1-Gigabit Ethernet port to the MPC8548
One USB port to the MPC8548 via its local bus
RS-232 port to the MPC8548
Shared RS-232 port to the IPMI controller and FX12 configuration FPGA
Board-level push button reset
25 LED indicators

Base interface
Two 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet channels connected to MPC8548 host processor

Fabric interface
Eleven fabric 4x channels at 3.125 Gbaud
Fabric endpoints implemented within the FX60/100 FPGAs

Zone 3 interface
Ten 4x fabric channels at 3.125 Gbaud
Fabric endpoints implemented within the FX60/100 FPGAs

Front-panel USB
High-speed USB interface
AdvancedTCA Revision 2.0 compliant
1.5 Mbps, 12 Mbps, and 480 Mbps data transfer rates

IPMI peripheral manager
Voltage monitor
Geographical address monitor
Temperature monitors
Power/reset controller

Environmental
Temperature
    Operating: 0°C to 45°C (system inlet air temperature)
    Storage: -40°C to +70°C (system inlet air temperature)
Humidity
    Operating: 5-90% non-condensing
    Non-operating: 5-95% non-condensing
Altitude
    Operating: 0-10,000 ft (3048 m) above sea level
    Storage: 0-16,404 ft (5000 m) above sea level
Vibration
    Random: 0.003g2/Hz, 20-2000 Hz, 1 hr/axis
    Shock: x/y axes: 32g; z axis: 20g; 11 ms, half-sine pulse; 3-positive and 3-negative

Electrical
Power
    Distribution: Dual -48V supplied to the blade from the AdvancedTCA backplane
    Consumption: Up to 250W at -48V (inclusive of FOM)
    Power consumption is dependent on complexity of calculations performed within FPGAs.

Specification compliance
AdvancedTCA Base Revision 2.0 (PICMG® 3.0) compliant