Multicore Developer Platform Touts 12 DSP Cores

Sundance has announced the first product from its new family of Multicore Developer Platforms (MDP), the EVP6472-941, which is targeted at the new breed of high intensity processing applications where performance and energy efficiency are critical.

The EVP6472-941 features two Texas Instruments (TI) TMS320C6472 multicore DSPs with twelve TMS320C64x+ processor cores clocked at 500MHz for real time processing tasks. A Xilinx Virtex-5 FX30T FPGA provides the co-processor, with an embedded PowerPC440 processor core and a quad channel 14-bit ADC sampling at up to 250 MSPS. The EVP6472-941 offers two DDR2 SDRAM memory banks of 256MB assessable by each C6472 processor.

"The advantages of multicore architectures are being increasingly embraced by the design community and TI's C6472 delivers important improvements in performance, integration and density, along with efficiencies in power, cost and board space," said Sandeep Kumar, Business Manager with Texas Instruments' multicore and media infrastructure business. "As a member of our Developer Network, the new Sundance range of Multicore Developer Platforms makes it easier for developers and OEMs building the very highest performance applications to tap into the potential of the C6472."

The EVP6472-941 is supplied with a complete board support package including the USB drivers, software functions and API for Windows. Essential tools are TI's Code Composer Studio 4.x that is supplied free of charge with the XDS100 USB JTAG Emulator for the C6472 DSP processor. Xilinx ISE development software can be downloaded from xilinx.com to target the Virtex-5 FX30T FPGA.

A range of third party design tools for TI DSP and Xilinx's FPGA also support the EVP6472-941; including 3L's Diamond Multiprocessor Tool-Suite, RTW-EC and HDLCoder from The MathWorks™, comprehensive VHDL and Verilog support from EDA vendors, and Co-Developer and a growing range of IP-Cores from Impulse.

Extensive general purpose input/output (GPIO) connectors are available with the EVP6472-941. Sundance Local Bus (SLB) interface to customize input/output (I/O) signals, four RS-232 ports, Gigabit Ethernet connection, LVTTL lines for synchronization, MicroSD Flash socket as an extension of the on-board Flash memories and JTAG headers to enable DSP and FPGA debugging.

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