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hardware	Hybrid	VME	Ruggedizable Hybrid Signal Processing 6U VME/VXS (VITA 41) Board	GT-6U-VME	BittWare’s GT-6U-VME (GTV6) is a rugged 6U VME/VXS (VITA 41) board, designed for demanding multiprocessor-based applications. The hybrid processing architecture takes advantage of both FPGA and DSP technology to provide a complete solution for applications requiring flexibility and adaptability along with high-end signal processing. The board features two high-density Altera Stratix II GX FPGAs, two clusters of two ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC processors from Analog Devices, a front panel interface supplying four channels of high-speed SerDes tranceivers, and an extensive back panel interface including VXS. Simultaneous on- and off-board data transfers can be achieved at a rate of 5 GBytes/s via two BittWare ATLANTiS FrameWorks implemented in the Altera Stratix II GX FPGAs. The board also provides a large amount of on-board memory with up to 3 GBytes of DDR2 SDRAM, as well as 128 MBytes of flash memory for booting both the FPGAs and DSPs.
hardware	Hybrid	cPCI	Ruggedized Hybrid Signal Processing 3U CompactPCI Board	CT-3U-cPCI	BittWare’s GT-3U-cPCI (GT3U) is a ruggedized 3U CompactPCI board that has been designed for demanding multi-processor based applications requiring complete flexibility and adaptability. The GT3U features a large Altera Stratix II GX FPGA, one cluster of four ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC processors from Analog Devices, a front panel interface supplying four channels of high-speed SerDes tranceivers, and a back panel interface providing RS232/RS422 and 10/100 ethernet. Simultaneous on-board and off-board data transfers can be achieved at a rate of 2 GB/s via BittWare’s ATLANTiS FrameWork implemented in the Stratix II GX FPGA. The board also provides a large amount of on-board memory including 1 GB of DDR2 SDRAM or 64 MB of QDR SDRAM, as well as 64 MB of flash memory for booting the FPGA and DSPs.
hardware	Hybrid	AMC	Hybrid Signal Processing Advanced Mezzanine Card	B2-AMC	Featuring a hybrid signal processing architecture that couples an Altera® Stratix® II FPGA with four ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC® processors, BittWare's B2-AMC (B2AM) is an AdvancedMC that supports universal baseband processing for wireless communications infrastructure such as 2G, 2.5G, 3G, WiMAX and SDR. A full-height, single wide AMC, the B2AM attaches to AdvancedTCA (Advanced Telecom Compute Architecture) carriers or other cards equipped with AMC bays and is completely hot-swappable. The B2AM combines an Altera Stratix II FPGA, four TigerSHARCs, a variety of front and back panel I/O interfaces, and a configurable 4x network interface supporting a variety of protocols. It also provides a 10/100 Ethernet interface and a Gigabit Ethernet interface for command, control, and reprogramming, as well as Flash memory for booting the DSPs and FPGAs.
hardware	FPGA	AMC	Altera® Stratix® IV GX Reconfigureable AMC	S4-AMC	Based on Altera’s Stratix IV GX FPGA, BittWare’s S4-AMC (S4AM) is a mid-size, single wide AdvancedMC that can be attached to AdvancedTCA (Advanced Telecom Compute Architecture) carriers or other cards equipped with AMC bays, and used in MicroTCA systems. The S4AM features a high-density, low-power Altera Stratix IV GX FPGA designed specifically for serial I/O-based applications, creating a completely flexible, reconfigurable AMC. BittWare’s ATLANTiS FrameWork, in conjunction with the FINe Host/Control Bridge, greatly simplifies application development and integration of this powerful board. The board also provides an IPMI system management interface, a configurable 15 port AMC SerDes interface supporting a variety of protocols, and a front panel 4x SerDes interface supporting CPRI and OBSAI. Additionally, the board features 10/100 Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, two banks of DDR3 SDRAM, two banks of QDRII+ SRAM, and Flash memory for booting the FPGAs and FINe. Providing enhanced flexibility is the VITA 57-compliant FMC site which has an additional eight SerDes, 60 LVDS pairs, and six clocks.
hardware	FPGA	AMC	Altera® Stratix® II GX AdvancedMC with four SFP/SFP+	SF/GX-AMC	Based on Altera’s Stratix II GX FPGA, BittWare’s SF/GX-AMC (SF/GXAM) is a full-size, single wide AdvancedMC that can be attached to AdvancedTCA (Advanced Telecom Compute Architecture) carriers or other cards equipped with AMC bays, and used in MicroTCA systems. The SF/GXAM features four small form-factor pluggable-plus (SFP/SFP+) compact optical transceiver connectors, a high-density Altera Stratix II GX FPGA, BittWare’s ATLANTiS FrameWork, a front panel I/O interface, a control plane interface via BittWare’s FINe Host/Control Bridge, an IPMI system management interface, and a configurable 11x SerDes AMC interface supporting a variety of protocols. It also provides 10/100 Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, two banks of DDR2 SDRAM, one bank of QDR2 SRAM, and Flash memory for booting the FPGA and FINe.
hardware	FPGA	AMC	Altera Stratix II GX AdvancedMC	GX-AMC	Based on Altera’s Stratix II GX FPGA, BittWare’s GX-AMC (GXAM) is a mid-size, single wide AdvancedMC that can be attached to AdvancedTCA (Advanced Telecom Compute Architecture) carriers or other cards equipped with AMC bays, and used in MicroTCA systems. The GXAM features a high-density Altera Stratix II GX FPGA, BittWare’s ATLANTiS FrameWork, a front panel I/O interface, a control plane interface via BittWare’s FINe Host/Control Bridge, an IPMI system management interface, and a configurable 11x SerDes interface supporting a variety of protocols. It also provides 10/100 Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, two banks of DDR2 SDRAM, one bank of QDR2 SRAM, and Flash memory for booting the FPGA and FINe.
hardware	DSP		Octal ADSP-TS201 TigerSHARC 6U VME Board	T2-6U-VME	The T2-6U-VME (T2V6) is a 6U VME board featuring eight ADSP-TS201 TigerSHARC DSPs from Analog Devices. To take full advantage of the high-performance TigerSHARC, the T2V6 implements BittWare’s ATLANTiS, which combines robust TigerSHARC processing with the versatile Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA to offer ultra high performance and unprecedented I/O bandwidth. The board also provides two large on-board banks of SDRAM, flash memory for hostless boot, and a PrPMC site for adding additional processors or I/O capabilities.
hardware	DSP		Quad ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC PMC Board	T2-PMC	BittWare’s T2-PMC (T2PM) DSP board features the ADSP-TS201 TigerSHARC processor from Analog Devices. To take full advantage of this high-performance DSP, this multiprocessor PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) implements BittWare's ATLANTiS, which combines robust TigerSHARC processing with the versatile Virtex-II Pro FPGA from Xilinx to offer ultra high performance and unprecedented I/O bandwidth. The board also provides a large on-board bank of SDRAM and flash memory for hostless boot.The T2-6U-cPCI (T26U) is a 6U CompactPCI board featuring eight ADSP-TS201 TigerSHARC DSPs from Analog Devices. To take full advantage of the high performance TigerSHARC, the T26U implements BittWare’s ATLANTiS, which combines robust TigerSHARC processing with the versatile Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA to offer ultra high performance and unprecedented I/O bandwidth. The board also provides two large on-board banks of SDRAM, flash memory for hostless boot, and two PMC sites for adding additional processors and I/O capabilities.
hardware	DSP		Octal ADSP-TS201 TigerSHARC 6U cPCI Board	T2-6U-cPCI	The T2-6U-cPCI (T26U) is a 6U CompactPCI board featuring eight ADSP-TS201 TigerSHARC DSPs from Analog Devices. To take full advantage of the high performance TigerSHARC, the T26U implements BittWare’s ATLANTiS, which combines robust TigerSHARC processing with the versatile Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA to offer ultra high performance and unprecedented I/O bandwidth. The board also provides two large on-board banks of SDRAM, flash memory for hostless boot, and two PMC sites for adding additional processors and I/O capabilities.
hardware	DSP		Quad ADSP-TS201 TigerSHARC PCI-X Board	T2-PCI	BittWare’s T2-PCI (T2PC) DSP board features the ADSP-TS201 TigerSHARC processor from Analog Devices. To take full advantage of this high-performance DSP, this multiprocessor PCI-X board implements BittWare’s ATLANTiS, which combines robust TigerSHARC processing with the versatile Virtex-II Pro FPGA from Xilinx to offer ultra high performance and unprecedented I/O bandwidth. The board also provides a large on-board bank of SDRAM, flash memory for hostless boot, and a PMC site for adding additional processors or I/O capabilities.
hardware	IO		High-Speed A/D I/O Card with Reconfigurable FPGA and TigerSHARC Link Ports	Tetra-PMC+	BittWare’s Tetra-PMC+ (TRPM) board is a high-speed analog input board that provides data capture for four 14-bit A/D channels running at up to 105 MHz. The board streams the data directly to an Altera Cyclone II FPGA, which provides A/D control, data distribution, and front-end processing capabilities. A 32-bit, 66 MHz PCI interface and four TigerSHARC link ports make the captured data available to the host board.
hardware	IO		High-Speed A/D Card with Reconfigurable FPGA, 64/66 PCI and SHARC Link Prots	Barracude-PMC+	BittWare’s Barracuda-PMC+ (BCPM) board is a high-speed analog input board that provides data capture for two 14-bit, up to 105 MHz A/D channels and streams the data directly to a Xilinx Virtex-II FPGA, which provides A/D control and data distribution and front-end processing capabilities. A 64-bit, 66 MHz PCI interface and four SHARC link ports make the captured data available to the host board, and a bank of up to 512 MB of SDRAM is available for snapshot acquisitions.
hardware	IO		Reconfigurable Virtex-II PCI Mezzanine Card	Remora-PMC+	BittWare’s Remora-PMC+ (RMPM) is a reconfigurable FPGA board featuring the power of the XILINX Virtex-II FPGA. A PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) providing BittWare’s PMC+ I/O extensions, the RMPM allows system designers to add the flexibility of a reconfigurable FPGA to their PMC or PMC+ compatible host boards. Configurable for nearly any application, the Virtex-II features up to 1 million system gates, a flexible digital I/O interface, and reconfigurable computing blocks. Rounding out the RMPM’s feature set are a 64/66 PCI interface and a 64-512 MB bank of SDRAM.
hardware	IO		Reconfigurable FPGA Card with ADSP-21160	Reef-PMC+	BittWare’s Reef-PMC+ (RFPM) is a reconfigurable FPGA board combining the power of the XILINX Virtex-II FPGA and the Analog Devices ADSP-21160 SHARC® DSP. Configurable for nearly any application, the RFPM allows system designers to take advantage of both the flexibility of a reconfigurable FPGA and the processing power of a general-purpose DSP. The Virtex-II features up to 1 million system gates, a flexible digital I/O interface, and reconfigurable computing blocks. And the ADSP-21160 DSP provides additional I/O and processing power for the board. Rounding out the RFPM’s feature set are a 64/66 PCI interface, a 64-512 MB bank of SDRAM, and 2 MB of Flash memory.
hardware	IO		Reconfigurable Virtex-II BittWare Mezzanin Card	Remora-BMC+	BittWare’s Remora-BMC+ (RMBM) is a reconfigurable FPGA board featuring the power of the XILINX Virtex-II FPGA. A BittWare Mezzanine Card (BMC+), the RMBM allows system designers to add the flexibility of a reconfigurable FPGA to their BittWare Tiger (ADSP-TS101S) and Hammerhead (ADSP-21160) 6U CompactPCI DSP boards. Configurable for nearly any application, the Virtex-II features up to 1 million system gates, a flexible digital I/O interface, and reconfigurable computing blocks. Rounding out the RMBM’s feature set are a 64/66 PCI interface and a 64-512 MB bank of SDRAM.
software			Code Developmebt Tools		BittWare offers a variety of code development tools to help get designers started developing their DSP systems. VisualDSP++ from Analog Devices provides a C++ compiler, simulator, multiprocessor source-level debugger, and advanced plotting tools. The TS-Lib & SpeedDSP libraries provide extensive libraries of routines optimized for the TigerSHARC and SHARC processors, helping to cut development time and costs. For users developing applications for the Altera FPGAs, BittWare offers the Altera Quartus II software.
software			Test and Debug Tools		For testing and debugging the code, BittWare offers a variety of tools, including the BittWare Target, a software debugger target for VisualDSP++; hardware emulators from Analog Devices; and the many diagnostic tools included with the DSP21k Toolkit.
software			Host Interface Tools		For interfacing host applications with BittWare hardware, BittWare offers the DSP21k Toolkit, which includes a variety of utilities, diagnostics, and libraries.
IP			ATLANTiS™ Framework		To successfully include FPGAs as part of the signal processing chain, board architectures must also include an FPGA framework: ATLANTiS™. ATLANTiS provides fully validated board-level interfaces for I/O, communications, and memory; an internal dataflow interconnect fabric that allows the ATLANTiS modules to be easily connected; and a control fabric that allows them to be easily coordinated and controlled. This framework creates a stable, high performance signal processing platform that frees the designer to focus on application development rather than reinventing board-level infrastructure.
IP			FINe™ Control Bridge		BittWare's FINe™ is a control plane and GigE interface/bridge supporting a variety of processing units including ADI TigerSHARC DSPs and Altera's FPGAs. The BittWare FINe™ control bridge gives the processing unit low-overhead access to the host via a 32-bit, 66 MHz PCI interface. The FINe also provides a general purpose peripheral bus that allows the processing unit to access on-board perhipherals such as Flash, 10/100 ethernet, and RS232/RS422 UART interfaces.