Spectrum Signal Processing Monaco Technical Reference
Introduction
Part Number 500-00191 1
Revision 2.00
1 Introduction
This manual describes the features, architecture, and specifications of the Monaco Quad
'C6x VME64 Board. You can use this information to program the board at a driver level,
extend the standard hardware functionality, or develop custom configurations.

1.1. Features

Spectrum’s Monaco VME64 board consists of four TMS320C6x processing nodes. It is
available with either fixed-point or floating-point TMS320C6x processors.
Product Operation Processors Processor Clock Speed
Monaco Fixed-point TMS320C6201 200 MHz
Monaco67 Floating-point TMS320C6701 167 MHz
Both the Monaco and the Monaco67 are referred to as “Monaco” in this manual unless
otherwise noted.
Monaco has the following features:
Up to four TMS320C6201 or TMS320C6701 processing nodes
128K x 32-bit of SBSRAM per processing node
4M x 32-bit of SDRAM per processing node
Shared access to a 132 MBytes/s PMC module site via the Spectrum Hurricane chip
512K x 32-bit of fast, globally shared SRAM accessible to the processor nodes, PCI
interface, and VME64 interface.
VME64 master/slave interface provided by Tundra Semiconductor’s SCV64 chip
VME A24 slave interface access to the ‘C6x Host Port Interfaces (HPIs)
JTAG debugging support
Two PEM (Processor Expansion Module) sites
DSP~LINK3 I/O interface supporting IndustryPack™ modules