Embedded DSP Board Offers Superb Price to Performance Ratio
TMS320C6712 board offers low cost, high performance for OEM Developers

ITHACA, NY, February 4, 2002: Traquair Data Systems, Inc. introduced the micro-line C6712CPU Embedded DSP Board, offering an outstanding price to performance ratio for OEM developers desiring cost effective floating-point DSP processing.

The C6712CPU combines a TMS320C6712 DSP Processor providing up to 600 MFLOPS at 100 MHz, with up to 32 MBytes of external SDRAM and 512 KBytes FLASH ROM in a small 98mm x 67mm form factor. Users also have access to two TMS320C6000™ McBSP ports, a programmable digital I/O interface, and a FLASH file system that allows the user to store and handle FLASH application programs easily via RS232 from the PC.

The flexible micro-line bus allows OEM developers to easily integrate their own board designs into the micro-line stackable architecture. Several off-the-shelf peripheral options such as data acquisition and 1394 FireWire communications are available as well. Up to seven peripheral boards can accompany each C6712CPU board in a micro-line stack. The additional boards are controlled and accessed by the DSP processor, via its 20-bit address and 32-bit data busses - propagated vertically through the boards, mounted as a single stack, one board on top of the other.

C6712CPU DSP Board

micro-line systems can be completely stand-alone, with the C6712CPU utilizing the DSPs FLASH ROM for booting application code. Integration with computers, if required, can be achieved at up to 230kbaud via RS-232, up to 400Mbits/sec using the optional IEEE 1394 FireWire interface, or via JTAG for debugging.

OEM developers have the option of mounting the C6712CPU and interface boards onto hardware of their own design, or onto optionally available power supply/carrier boards.

“The C6712CPU was designed with the OEM developer in mind,” commented Steve Bradshaw, President and Technical Director of Traquair. “The C6712’s superb price to performance ratio, combined with the open micro-line bus architecture, will considerably reduce time to market for many embedded real-time systems, communications, imaging, and multi-media application designs”.