BittWare has announced the S5-PCI Express, a PCI Express x8 card based on Altera's Stratix V FPGA. The card provides two VITA-57 FMC (FPGA mezzanine card) sites for additional I/O and processing, and two optional QSFP+ (quad small form-factor pluggable plus) cages for serial I/O. When combined with the company's value-added products for FPGA - the Anemone FPGA co-processor and the ATLANTiS FrameWork for FPGA integration and development - the card creates a good solution for signal processing and data acquisition.
The card board features either an Altera Stratix V GX FPGA or a Stratix V GS FPGA, which offers additional DSP resources. The board provides up to 32Gbyte of DDR3 SDRAM with error-correcting code.
The FPGAs are optimised for high-bandwidth applications with integrated 14.1Gbit/s transceivers supporting backplanes and optical modules. The FPGAs support 1.6Tbit/s of serial switching capability, 2.5TMACS (trillion multiply accumulates per second) of signal-processing performance, and 6x72 DDR3 memory interfaces at 1,066MHz. The FPGA implements the company's ATLANTiS FrameWork and provides seamless routing of all on-board data, I/O, and memory.
The card features up to two FMC sites, which provide SerDes and LVDS, along with clocks, I2C, JTAG and reset connected to the Stratix V FPGA. In addition to the FMC I/O, the card provides many interfaces for high-speed serial I/O as well as debug support. Two QSFP+ cages are optional available on the front panel, providing support for virtually any serial communication standard, including: fibre channel, 40, 10GbE, synchronous optical networking, common public radio interface, open base station architecture initiative, Serial RapidIO, and SerialLite. The eight QSFP+ SerDes channels are connected directly to the Stratix V FPGA.
The card interface provides eight SerDes lanes to the Stratix V FPGA. USB 2.0, RS-232, and JTAG interfaces are available for debug programming support.
