Spectrum Signal Processing

Monaco Technical Reference

 

Introduction

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

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Spectrum Brands C6x VME64 manual Introduction, Features, Product Operation Processors