Embedded Parallel Architectures

ByRichard A. Goodrum

24 March 2005

Introduction

● Hardware● Operating System

Hardware

● DNA Computing Solutions– VQG4– Eagle

● Spectrum Signal– PRO1900/1901 with Multiple ePMC-PPCs

DNA-CS VQG4

Memory and Bus Controller

PPC

Level 2 Cache

PPC

Level 2 Cache

Memory Unit

PPC

Level 2 Cache

PPC

Level 2 Cache

PPC Bus

Peripheral Busses (PCI - 2)

Serial Ports VME Bus Other I/O Other I/O ...

PRO1900 with Multiple ePMC-PPCs

Memory and Bus Controller

ePMC-PPCePMC-PPC

Memory Unit

ePMC-PPC ePMC-PPCPP

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us

Peri

pher

al B

us (

PCI)

Serial Ports VME Bus Other I/O Other I/O ...

PPC

High Bandwidth Data Link

ePMC-PPC

Memory and Bus Controller Memory Unit

PPC

PPC Bus

Peripheral Bus (PCI) to Mainboard PCI Bus

PPCLevel 2 Cache Level 2 Cache

High Bandwidth Data Link

DNA-CS Eagle

PPCLevel 2 Cache PPC Level 2 Cache

MemoryUnit

MemoryUnit

MemoryUnit

MemoryUnit

FPGA FPGA

Ping-PongMemory

Controller

Ping-PongMemory

Controller

Data FlowController

Operating System

● Non Real-Time OS– Unix– Linux

● Real-Time OS– VxWorks (uniprocessor)– RT Linux (multiprocessor)– LynxOS (uniprocessor)– MC/OS (multiprocessor)

VxWorks View of Memory

● One Private Region per PPC● One Unmanaged Shared Region per board ● One Managed Shared Region per boardset

Photos

DNA-CS VQG4

DNA-CS Eagle

Spectrum Signal Processing

PRO-1900 Intelligent ePMC Carrier Board

Spectrum Signal Processing

ePMC-PPC Single or Dual G4 MPC7410 PowerPC™ Processing Module

Spectrum Signal Processing

ePMC-FPGA Multi-Purpose I/O Processing Engine

Spectrum Signal Processing

Board Configuration

Acknowledgements

● Technical Details and Photos of VQG4 and Eagle provided by:– DNA Computing Solutions

● www.dna-cs.com

● Technical Details and Photos of PRO-1900, ePMC-PPC, and ePMC-FPGA provided by:– Spectrum Signal Processing

● www.spectrumsignal.com