AMC565

The MicroTCA SOFI Carrier board with Kintex Ultrascale+ FPGA allows extremely flexible solutions by combining a high performance  FPGA for high-speed digital processing and a SOFI connector for attaching specialized I/O mezzanine cards, mainly ADCs and DACs.

The main parts are:

• FPGA: performs real-time processing, control, filtering, triggering, data conversion, or protocol handling.
• GPU: Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier for AI applications
• SOFI interface: accepts a SOFI module such as an ADC or DAC board.
• MicroTCA backplane connection: carries data through PCIe, Ethernet, Serial RapidIO, JESD204, or other high-speed links, depending on the design.
• Clocking and management: receives reference clocks and is monitored through the MicroTCA management system.

As a standardized platform of PICMG MicroTCA systems are typically used in medical applications, telecommunications, defense as well as in measurement systems for industrial and scientific applications (e.g. particle physics).

Description:

AMC565 has an integrated NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier, a Xilinx Kintex UltraScale+™ XCKU11P FPGA with an SOFI (Serial Optimized FPGA Interface) slot. The AMC is compliant to AMC.1, AMC.2 and AMC.4 PICMG open standard specifications.

The unit has an onboard, re-configurable Xilinx Kintex UltraScale+™ XCKU11P FPGA with 2,928 DSP Slices and 653K logic cells. It interfaces directly to the backplane clock lanes FCLKA and TCLKA-D, to the backplane dual x4 SERDES or single x8 SERDES lanes per ordering option F (AMC.1 and AMC.4), as well as 32 lanes of SERDES to the SOFI. The FPGA has an interface to 8 GB of DDR4 memory (dual 2x 32-bit wide). This allows for a large buffer size to be stored during processing as well as for queuing the data to the host. The FPGA is linked to the Jetson via PCIe x8 lanes at Gen3 speed.

The Jetson AGX Xavier has a 32 TeraOPS (TOPS) of peak compute, 512-Core NVIDIA Volta GPU with 64 Tensor cores, 8-core NVIDIA Carmel Arm V.8.2 64-bit CPU and 32GB of LPDDR4. It has a link to an SDHC Socket for 64GB of additional memory (per ordering option D) as well as to an M.2 NVMe for mass storage.

The backplane dual GbE link (AMC.2) can be routed either to the FPGA or to the NVIDIA GbE via onboard MUX.

Key Features:

• Xilinx Kintex UltraScale+™ XCKU11P FPGA
• NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier
• SOFI site
• 8 GB of dual 2x 32-bit wide DDR4 Memory to FPGA
• Double module, Full-size

AMC565 Datasheet