Sundance unveils PC/104 embedded module of 40 GFLOPS DSP processor performance

Sundance Multiprocessor Technology unveiled the new SMT6657, the high performance PC/104 embedded processing module of small form factor of 90mm x 96mm. SMT6657 is sleected by the new Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) currently being constructed in Darmstadt, Germany to power its SIS100 Proton Accelerator. The SMT6657 features two on-board, dual-core TMS320C6657 floating-point DSPs from Texas Instruments based on the TI Keystone multicore architecture. It clocks at 1.25GHz and generates a raw floating-point performance of 40 GFLOPS (20 GFLOPS per core). The DSPs are closely coupled to an on-board Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale KU35 FPGA used for filtering and post-processing and which also provides the I/O brain of the board, controlling a PC/104 interface, the new PCIe/104 OneBank for high-speed connection to a growing range of compatible boards from the ecosystem. The SMT6657 also has a VITA 57.1 FMC module enabling high-speed ADC/DACs, vision interfaces, sensors, and fibre interfaces, etc to be easily added. Using the dual-lanes of the SerialRapid I/O interfaces found on the DSP and the FPGA as a switch on the PC/104 OneBank connector, it is possible to interface an infinite number of SMT6657 boards together in a system to create a truly embedded stackable supercomputer. Sundace says "the SMT6657 complements and supersedes Sundance’s original PC/104 board with ...