Spectrum Signal Processing Monaco Technical Reference
Processor Nodes
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Revision 2.00
2 Processor Nodes
The Monaco board supports one, two or four embedded ‘C6X processor nodes shared
across the Global Shared Bus. The three possible processor configurations are described
in the following figure.
Table 3 Processor Configurations
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Configuration Node A Node B Node C Node D
One Node Y
Two Nodes Y Y
Four Nodes YYYY
Each DSP node consists of:
One TMS320C6201 DSP operating at 200 MHz for Monaco, or one TMS320C6701
DSP operating at 167 MHz for Monaco67
128K of 32-bit Synchronous burst SRAM (SBSRAM)
4M of 32-bit Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM)
Processor Expansion Module (PEM) interface
A slave Host Port Interface to VME A24 bus
Two serial ports
A DSP~LINK3 interface (DSP node A only)