AdvancedTCA/MicroTCA Summit, Santa Clara, CA — CommAgility has announced the AMC-3C87F, a single width Advanced Mezzanine Card, which provides a mix of multicore DSP and FPGA processing power together with flexible, high bandwidth I/O connectivity. This makes it ideal for wireless baseband, test and other processing-intensive applications such as WiMAX and Long Term Evolution of 3GPP (LTE).
For use in MicroTCA or AdvancedTCA systems, the module includes three Texas Instruments TCI6487 multi-core DSPs running at 1 GHz to provide a high-performance DSP resource. It also provides a Xilinx Virtex-5 SX95T FPGA for interfacing and DSP co-processing.
Dual front-panel optical SFP sockets are provided for industry-standard CPRI and OBSAI links to wireless radio heads, units under test or other optical data links such as Ethernet backhaul. Flexible sync options include a GPS or other reference clock, or the optical links themselves.
CommAgility and its software partners enable customers to obtain a complete basestation WiMAX PHY layer solution based on the new AMC-3C87F module. Alternatively, extensive software and firmware library support, along with available DSP software and FPGA IP cores, provides a fast route for customers to application code porting for both WiMAX and LTE.
As well as Gigabit Ethernet, the module incorporates a full 10 Gbps RapidIO infrastructure with an on-board switch from Tundra Semiconductor, providing dependable on and off card interconnects at up to 10 Gbps per link. A range of build options are available and further customization is possible in volume.
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