Tews Technologies has introduced the standard single Mid-Size or Full-Size AMC.1 module TAMC631 with a user-programmable XC6SLX25T-2 or XC6SLX75T-2 Spartan-6 FPGA. Designed for industrial, COTS, and transportation applications, where specialised I/O or long-term availability is required, the module provides a number of advantages including a customisable interface for specific applications and a FPGA-based design to extend product lifecycle.
For flexible front I/O solutions, the module provides a VITA 57 FMC Module slot with a low-pin count connector, allowing active and passive signal conditioning. All FMC I/O lines are directly connected to the FPGA, which maintains the flexibility of the Select I/O technology of the Spartan-6 FPGA. The low-pin count interface includes one multi-gigabit link. In addition the FPGA is connected to two banks of 128Mbytes, 16bit wide DDR3 SDRAM. The FPGA is configured by a platform Flash device, which is programmable via a JTAG header. The JTAG header also supports readback and real-time debugging of the FPGA design using Xilinx ChipScope.
A programmable clock generator provides up to three different clock output frequencies between 5kHz and 200MHz. The clock generator settings are programmable via JTAG and are stored in an EEPROM. In addition, two differential reference clocks are available from the FMC slot to the FPGA. User applications can be developed using the design software ISE WebPACK. Software support for major operating systems such as Windows, LynxOS, Linux, Integrity, VxWorks, and QNX is available.
