Model 5560 FPGA co-processing board is powered by AMD Xilinx Versal
Powered by the AMD Xilinx Versal HBM series FPGAs, the Model 5560 is a 3U OpenVPX SOSA co-processing board, developed by Mercury Systems.
Electronic warfare and spectrum processing applications used by land, air, and sea-based platforms must capture input signals, process them, and deliver output signals on extremely short timelines for split-second information.
Many existing defence systems use FPGAs as co-processers to accelerate data processing at the edge but they run into bottlenecks when data is transferred to memory that is positioned elsewhere on the board, delaying decision making. Mercury’s Model 5560 is directly integrated with the on-chip high bandwidth memory (HBM) via the Versal programmable network on chip, resulting in up to an eight fold increase in bandwidth and 63 per cent lower power compared to a system using external memory. Gbytes of HBM is directly accessible by the Versal HBM adaptable engines to “significantly” increase the overall amount of data that can be pushed through the system.
It has four 100 GigE high-speed optical data pipes for an aggregate data throughput rate of 50GByte per second.
“The combined power of high capacity on-chip high bandwidth memory, using our unique 2.5D packaging technology, coupled with our advanced programmable network on chip technology, which is integrated into the highly specialised Model 5560 architecture, results in solution that is purpose-built for extremely demanding customer requirements,” said Manuel Uhm, director of silicon marketing, AMD.
A Navigator FPGA design kit and board support package is available for operational control and IP development.
Mercury Systems serves the global aerospace and defence industry with data to decision, silicon to systems, products, services and technologies.
