Home > Products > C Based Products > RC Computing Platform > RC2000
RC2000
Modular PCI-card solution for co-processor acceleration functions
The RC2000 provides an environment for the development of high performance FPGA based applications or co-processing acceleration functions. Supplied with a complete ESL design tool suite, it is an ideal platform for algorithm acceleration.
Hardware features include a reconfigurable PMC (PCI Mezzanine Card) based on the Xilinx Virtex-II, or Virtex-4 4VLX160 and 4VSX55 range of Platform FPGAs providing a high speed PCI interface, external memory, high density I/O, programmable clocks, temperature monitoring, battery backed encryption and flash boot facilities. For use in a standard PC/PCI environment, the PMC card is supported by a dual PMC to PCI carrier card providing 64-bit 66MHz primary and secondary PCI via an Intel 21154 PCI-PCI bridge device. PMC Pn4 user I/O connections can be routed between the PMC sites or can be connected to an on-board I/O header.
Software features include a PAL (Platform Abstraction Layer) implementation allowing hardware developers to access board features using the portable PAL API (Application Programming Interface). Supporting the PAL implementation is a Platform Support Library (PSL) - a set of board specific hardware device drivers allowing lower level access to board features. A DSM (Data Stream Manager) library allows for simple implementation of applications involving co-processing between a Windows based host and hardware applications on the RC2000. A set of utilities and drivers provides support for Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP, Linux and VxWorks.
Enabling High Performance Computing
Rapid design starts
- Identify and port bottleneck algorithms to FPGA implementations using C
- Full examples and project templates for use with DK and Agility Compiler
- Drivers for board configuration and control over PCI (MSWindows 2000/XP)
Simplify hardware acceleration applications
- Familiar and consistent HW-SW design framework
- Use DSM for host to FPGA communications
- Comprehensive board support libraries and software drivers
- Access board features using the PAL portable API
BENEFITS
- High performance development and deployment platform for FPGA and MicroBlaze softcore applications
- Easy to use in combination with Celoxica's DK Design Suite, PAL and DSM technologies
- Flexible hardware format and options offer simple configuration and upgrade
Key Features
- Xilinx Virtex II FPGA
- 6 banks of ZBT SRAM
- PMC Carrier Card
- Dual PMC to PCI adaptor for use with one or two RC2000 PMC mezzanine cards
- Supports 64 or 32 bit primary or secondary PCI slots.
- PCI 2.2 compliant
- Flexible PMC site interconnection or I/O options
- 80 way I/O header
- Module options
- IO 146 - 146 I/O connections using mictor connector
- *IO 34 - 34 I/O connections using SCSI connector
- *ZBT16 - additional 16Mb ZBT RAM in 2 banks plus two serial ports
- *DDR128 - 128Mb DDR SDRAM plus 34 I/O connection