DSP220

The DSP220 is a 6U VXS (VITA 41.2) quad 8641/8640D multicomputer. Featuring four single- or dual core Freescale™ PowerPC® 8641 system-on-chip nodes and a VITA 42.2-compliant XMC slot, the DSP220 is available in six ruggedization levels including air-, spray- and conduction-cooled for extended temperature operation as well as resistance to shock and vibration.

Designed for a broad range of applications such as land-mobile, airborne fixed- and rotary wing, and naval surface- and underwater platforms that require high performance COTS multiprocessors, and providing the optimum platform for GE Intelligent Platforms’ AXIS (Advanced Multiprocessor Integrated Software) environment, DSP220-based solutions can be scaled up to eighty 8641 nodes per chassis for the most demanding environments.

The DSP220 derives its high performance from a number of key features. Each PowerPC e600 core is clocked at 1 GHz, and each 8641 node supports two banks of DDR2 SDRAM with 256 MBytes per bank, 2 Gigabytes total per card, as standard. Up to 8 GBytes SDRAM per board is optionally available. PowerPC AltiVec™ support for advanced vector and floating point operations is provided by each processor core. The multi fabric data plane interfaces include Tundra Serial RapidIO to all 8641 nodes, XMC site and the system backplane along with two Gigabit Ethernet ports to all nodes and off board for optimum system throughput. System management and additional data movement options are supported over the VME64 2eSST interface.

Four Freescale MPC8641D processors
Freescale 8640/8640D ready
Eight banks DDR2 SDRAM, up to 8 GBytes total
Tundra Serial RapidIO fabric to all nodes
Eight serial ports
One XMC site with sRIO support
VME 2eSST interface
Node management controller
Rugged 6U VITA 41.2 form factor for air, spray and conduction cooled systems
AXIS Advanced Multiprocessor Integrated software
GE Intelligent Platforms Built-In-Test (BIT) for PowerPC®
BSPs for VxWorks and LynxOS
For Ruggedization Levels, please see the configuration guide under the downloads tab
DSP220 Press Release

Article - Advances in Radar Processing (Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2008)

	Type	Title
	Data Sheet	DSP220 Quad Freescale MPC864xx Dual Fabric 6U VXS Multiprocessor
	Data Sheet	Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
	User Manual	SRIO Device Driver User Guide 2nd Edition
	Brochures	AXIS Advanced Integrated Multiprocessor Software AXIS Software Overview
	Brochures	Sonar Solutions Brochure 8-page Sonar Solutions Brochure
	White Papers	Advances in Radar Processing (GFT-727A) Advances in Radar Processing white paper addresses multi-functional radar systems and how they need to perform much more sophisticated, computationally intensive algorithms - and to do so within limited space & constraints on power & heat dissipation.
	White Papers	AXIS - Taking the Sting out of Multiprocessor DSP Application Development (GFT-687A) This white paper will show how a modern tool-chain might address different issues when configuring and programming a complex, heterogeneous multiprocessor system for a Mil & Aero application and result in a much reduced time to solution.
	White Papers	Software Strategies for Leveraging VXS Technology (GFT-679A) This paper looks at developing applications for systems with switched fabric interconnects
	White Papers	VPX: VMEbus For the 21st Century (GFT-645A) This paper looks at VPX for rugged environments and embedded military applications.
	Application Notes	Flash Programming on the DSP220/DSP230 Application Note
	BIT Guide	BIT on DSP220/DSP230 Software Reference Manual 3rd Edition
	Configuration Guide	RUGGEDIZATION LEVELS
	Hardware Manual	DSP220 Hardware Reference Manual 2nd Edition
	Hardware Manual	DSP220RTM Hardware Reference Manual 1st Edition
	Hardware Manual	SIOX600 Breakout Panel Manual
	Software Reference	SRIO Device Driver User API Software Reference Manual

Customer support contact info for this product is listed below by global region. All related documentation and software for this product are listed under the "Downloads" tab of this product page.

Primary Support

Towcester, UK
Tove Valley Business Park
Towcester, Northamptonshire, -- NN12 6PF

Support Phone: +44 (0) 1327 322760
Support E-mail: support.towcester.ip@ge.com
RMA E-mail: repairs.towcester.ip@ge.com

RMA: Download Request Form

Europe, Middle East, Africa Support

Augsburg, Germany
Memminger Str. 14 D-86159
Augsburg,

Support Phone: +49 821 5034-170
Hour: Monday - Thrusday, excluding holidays from 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET; Friday 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Support E-mail: support.augsburg.ip@ge.com

Asia Pacific, Oceana Support

Beijing, China
Tower A, Longsheng Building
#A5 Rongchang East Road, BDA
Beijing, 100176

Support Phone: (8610) 8722-6352
Support E-mail: support-apo.embeddedsystems.ip@ge.com

AXISLib-x86 - AXISLib-x86 is a set of Signal and Vector Processing Libraries providing over 600 high performance digital signal processing and vector mathematical functions targeting Intel processors.
DSP230 - The DSP230 quad Freescale MPC8641D/8640D Multi Fabric 6U VPX system blade sets the standard for deployed COTS multi-processors aimed at rugged defense and aerospace applications such as deployed radar, sonar, SIGINT & image processing.
XMCV5 - XMCV5 – rugged XMC Virtex-5 processor with QDR2 & DDR2 memory harness' the power and flexibility of the Virtex-5 FXT with build options for SXT and LXT addressing the performance requirements for demanding defense and aerospace applications.
CRX800 - The CRX800 is the world’s first rugged COTS 23-port VITA 41.2 Serial RapidIO Switch. Designed for use with VITA 41.2 (sRIO) payload boards such as the DSP220 quad 8641/8641D multi-core multiprocessor, it is available in six build levels.
AXISView - A suite of integrated graphical tools designed for multiprocessor systems. It provides system visualization with the ability to configure, download, run, debug and monitor a multiprocessor application from an integrated, intuitive GUI environment.
AXISPro - AXISPro combines two key elements of our AXIS Advanced Multiprocessor Integrated Software capability, as a single package. AXISPro comprises AXISFlow Interprocessor Communications libraries, with AXISView, a suite of integrated graphics tools.
AXISLib-VSIPL - Performance optimized vector signal image processing library compliant with VSIPL Core 1.0 profile, & implementing over 512 vector, signal and image processing functions. Operates in a standalone mode or as an integral software module within AXIS.
AXISLib-RSPL - AXISLib-RSPL - Performance optimized signal processing. The Signal & Vector Processing Library is a high performance AXIS software module with over 400 DSP & mathematical functions created to help developers maximize system and application performance.
AXISFlow - AXISFlow is a high performance inter-processor communication software providing high throughput, low latency, reconfigurable interconnects that facilitate data transport between tasks, processors, boards and systems.
AXISLib-CL - AXISLib-CL Signal and Vector Processing Library providing digital signal processing & mathematical functions. Provides a C implementation of the AXISLib products to allow algorithm development and modelling without the need for embedded hardware.

DSP220RTM-11 - 6U rear transition module for lab development systems
DSP220EMU-11 - JTAG emulator plug-on adaptor (also used on DSP230)