Introduction

The micro-line family of embedded DSP and FPGA boards provide a range of TMS320C6000 DSP processor, and FPGA capabilities for commercial and industrial applications. They can be utilized as stand-alone embedded DSP or FPGA systems, or integrated as mezzanine plug-in modules with customer or application-specific hardware designs.

The boards provide extensive access to the many device level interfaces supported natively by the DSP and FPGA resources. To complement this, a variety of hardware and software options are available for configuring and tailoring complete systems to application-specific needs. Options include support for analog and digital I/O, Ethernet, FireWire, video framecapture, and non-volative data storage using hard drives or CompactFLASH devices.

Benefits of micro-line Compact, high-quality designs Advanced connectivity solutions Open Architecture: - Design your own peripherals - Add 3rd Party Analog I/O options Extended temperature options ISO9001:2000 accredited production & CE certification for DSP boards Design-Integration Services

DSP processors, FPGAs, or a combination of both?

With micro-line, developers can pursue a strategy of utilizing DSP processors, user-programmable FPGAs, or a combination of both. A broad range of configurations allows developers to optimize for cost, flexibility, resource density, and overall system performance:

Integer DSP processor boards
C641xCPU	400/500MHz TMS320C6410/6413/6418 DSP + 400k/1MGate Spartan-3E FPGA
C6412Compact	720MHz TMS320C6412 DSP + 1M/1.5M/4MGate Spartan-3 FPGA + USB 2.0 Interface + 10/100Base-T Ethernet Interface + IEEE 1394a FireWire Interface

Floating-point DSP processor boards
C6713CPU	300MHz TMS320C6713 DSP + 400k/1MGate Spartan-3 FPGA
C6713Compact	300MHz TMS320C6713 DSP + 250k/500k/1MGate Virtex-II FPGA + IEEE 1394a FireWire Interface

Options for extending functionality

The following hardware and software options allow indivdual boards or complete systems to be configured and tailored to application-specific needs:

Analog Interface Boards
ORS-112	4ch 16-bit A/D/A with Spartan-IIE or Virtex-II FPGA - ADC sample rates up to 2.5MSPS/ch
ORS-114	2ch 14-bit A/D/A with Virtex-II FPGA - ADC sample rates up to 65MSPS/ch
ORS-116	12ch 16-bit A/D/A with Spartan-IIE FPGA - ADC sample rates up to 250kSPS/ch

Communications & Networking

Off-the-shelf support for Ethernet and IEEE 1394a FireWire provides developers with a wide range of communications and networking options when using embedded micro-line hardware:

10/100Base-T Ethernet communications is either either a standard feature or can be added to most micro-line DSP processor based configurations, with support from the Windmill Innovations RFC and eXpressDSP compliant bf3Net TCP/IP protocol stack, optional bf3Web embedded webserver, and additional application protocols.

IEEE 1394a FireWire communications is either a standard feature or an option for most micro-line DSP based configurations. Operating at 100, 200, or 400MBit/sec, it provides guaranteed bandwidth for mission critical applications, live connect/disconnect, and many other impressing features.

USB communications is either a standard feature or an option for most micro-line DSP based configurations, being typically used for enabling communications with a PC.

Storing Data to Compact FLASH and Hard Drives Mass storage with FAT32 filesystem support is available for selected micro-line DSP boards, for utilizing FireWire enabled hard drives and CompactFlash memory.

Imaging and Framecapture Imaging and framecapture configurations are easily realized, with support for IIDC IEEE 1394a FireWire Digital Cameras which can be added to most micro-line DSP configurations.

Development Tools & Software

A range of development tools & software provides support for code generation, source level debugging, pre-emptive multi-tasking, as well as downloading and managing FLASH ROM resident application software on the DSP boards, and FireWire support.