Chinook
Introducing the Chinook, General Purpose Processor and FPGA Board. This 24-Layer densely populated, low Size, Weight, And Power (SWAP) board was originally designed and produced under a Navy Phase II SBIR program to perform Fault Detection/Fault Isolation (FDFI) and Data Acquisition functions over hundreds of microprocessors across the AN/SPY-1 Radar backplane. In addition to its original FD/FI and Data Acquisition purpose the Chinook board also lends itself to a variety of other functions such as general purpose Digital Signal Processing, Embedded system testing, Pattern generation, and Distributed timing and control. Chinook is also extremely capable of full system and individual component Anti-Tamper and Information Assurance applications. (Back to Hardware Products)
Chinook, Multi-Purpose Processor and FPGA Board
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Description: Chinook is a flexible, compact, general purpose board providing both PowerPC and FPGA processing capability. Systems can deploy Chinook cards in a standard 3U PXI chassis/backplane* or as stand-alone modules with no need for a backplane infrastructure. In the latter configuration, Chinook receives its power from an external AC adapter (included). Chinook supports a limited set of PXI triggers (without the PXI local control bus) when configured for PXI systems.
The Chinook board has two 1Gbit Ethernet interfaces to support standard system connectivity. Multiple cards networked together can serve as a distributed processor or control system, for example.
Daughter card connectors provide access to 240 I/O pins from the FPGA. A standard daughter card is available,the Chinook-DC1, which provides buffered 5V tolerant I/O to the FPGA with cable interconnects. This daughter card supports distributed logic analysis applications where hundreds of nodes – each with 240 I/Os – can be simultaneously sampled throughout a large or small platform. Please contact CEI for more details on this Logic State Analyzer (LSA) application of Chinook.
Applications:
Reconfigurable computing
Distributed fault detection and fault isolation
Embedded system testing
Anti-tamper, Information assurance, and insider threat protection
Distributed control and data acquisition
Pattern generation
Digital control and status
General purpose / Digital Signal Processing
Features:
Versatile General Purpose & FPGA-based processing combined on one small board
Features AMCC PowerPC PPC440GX integrated with an Altera Stratix II FPGA
Flexible deployment options enable operation without a backplane or insertion into PXI systems
Supports a variety of standard interfaces such as Gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, and PCI-X
Embedded TCP/IP acceleration hardware frees CPU core cycles fro other application demands
Offers 240 pins of user defined FPGA I/O capable of signal acquisition and generation
Real time clock with battery backup
Compatible with Power PC application code (Book E architecture)
Runs Linux O/S (2.6 Kernel)
High quality PCB material and manufacturing process increases reliability
Compatible with CEI's off-the-shelf general data acquisition / data generation daughter card
