UNCLASSIFIED Hi, The team I am part of is currently researching the possibly of a standard signal processing development platform for a government research department.
An initial review of your documents has shown that OpenCPI seems to meet our requirements for a middleware. The platforms we are targeting are your i7/ML605 reference platform for development and a uTCA platform for field trials. The field trial platform will consist of the follow or similar: - i7 quad core CPU, 8G RAM, PCIe Gen II x8 : http://www.gocct.com/sheets/AM/am31xx0x.htm - Xilinx V6 FPGA AMC, PCIe Gen II x8 : http://www.lyrtech.com/products/perseus_601x.php - One of these FMC o 8 x 250 Msam/sec ADC : http://www.4dsp.com/FMC108.php o 4/2/1 x 1.25/2.5/5 Gsam/sec ADC : http://www.4dsp.com/FMC125.php o 2 x 1 Gsam ADC, 2 x 1 Gsam DAC : http://www.4dsp.com/FMC110.php o RF Transceiver : http://www.lyrtech.com/products/radio420x.php Or preference for time synchronisation is Precision Time Protocol (IEEE 1588) for CPUs and 10MHz/PPS for FPGAs provided by the following or similar: - Meinberg LANTIME PTP - http://www.meinberg.de/english/products/lantime-m600-mrs-ptpv2.htm The use of PTP requires a recent version of the Linux kernel and we prefer a distribution which has all pre-requisites available as packages. Thus our preferred Linux distribution is Ubuntu 10.11. It appears that Ubuntu and PCIe Gen II x8 are not currently supported by OpenCPI. So some initial questions we have are: - When is the next stable release due? - How much of the specification documents will be implemented for the next release? - Are there any technical issues when selecting a platform that we need to be aware of? - How trivial is it to update OpenCPI to support the field trial platform? - Is there a roadmap available for platform support (OS, FPGA cards, FMC cards, Fabrics)? - The bug tracking tool at opencpi.org seems unused, is there an alternative being used? - The forum at opencpi.prg appears to be broken Any help will be much appreciated. Cheers, Troy IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. _______________________________________________ opencpi_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencpi.org/listinfo.cgi/opencpi_dev-opencpi.org
