Digital Signal Processing Solutions Tools: Development Boards

Product Name: SPIRIT-40 PCI
Company Name: RadiSys Corp., DSP Division
Features & Benefits:
  • PCI Bus Master
  • Up to 16 MBytes of zero wait-state SRAM
  • RS-232 serial interface
  • 10 external C40 Comm Port interface connectors
  • C40 and host interrupt support
Platforms Supported: PCI PC
Host Platforms Supported: Windows 3.1 Windows 95 Windows NT
TMS320 Devices Supported: C40
CPU: 2
Clock Speeds Available (MHz): 50-, 60
Board Size: Full Card
Memory (DRAM/SRAM): SRAM
Expansion Options:
Software Included: Libraries
Technical Support/Training Available: YES
Overview: Plugging into a single PCI slot, the SPIRIT-40 is compatible with PCI 2.1-compliant systems. The board uses two TI TMS320C40 DSPs and has six bi-directional 20 MByte/sec Comm Ports, each with their own DMA controller, providing high bandwidth I/O capability. The two C40 buses provide transfer rates of 80 or 100 Mbytes/sec. each, for a total I/O capability of 400 Mbytes/sec. The board is expandable to 16 MBytes from a base memory configuration of 768 kBytes of SRAM. A comprehensive suite of development tools is available for application development on the SPIRIT-40 PCI, including the highly-optimized SPIRIT run-time library driver, several operating systems for parallel processing, a high-level language debugger, and general-purpose and optimized DSP libraries. The PCI host has full 32-bit access to the SPIRIT-40 PCI via memory-mapped address space. Either C40 processor may operate as a PCI master performing transfers at 50 MBytes/sec. The supplied run-time library provides a convenient software interface which eliminates the need to program the card at the register level. Designed for parallel processing architectures, the six Comm Ports on each C40 (one set connected on the SPIRIT-40 PCI, the others brought to individual connectors) allow creation of architectures such as rings, lattices and hypercubes.
Company Information: RadiSys Corp., DSP Division
2 Wells Avenue
Newton MA 02159-3208 USA
Tel: 800 628 6502
Fax: 617 235 2531
e-mail: info@radisys.com
www: http://www.radisys.com
RadiSys designs and manufactures a wide range of standard and custom embedded and stand-alone products, including TI DSP-based data and signal processing solutions.

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