[ PRO-3500 ]

The PRO-3500 is a signal processing engine with two PowerPC G4 processors, and support for two ePMC modules.

Up to two additional G4s or additional I/O can be supported via additional ePMC modules.

The PRO-3500 contains a user-programmable embedded PowerPC 405GP controller to provide networking support,

and to offload system control from the PowerPC G4 processors, which can then be dedicated to signal processing.

The following summarizes the external interfaces on the PRO-3500 board:

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flexFabric interface – supporting up to two 320 MB/s full-duplex switched fabric links

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PICMG 2.16 compliant switched Ethernet

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66 MHz, 32-bit PCI via cPCI backplane

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ePMC module sites: ePMC modules are PMC modules that are equipped with Solano~link ports to move high-speed data to the

PRO-3500 via an additional connector. Four dedicated, full-duplex 200 MB/s data paths between the PRO-3500 and the ePMC

module are supported. For more information on the PRO-3500, please see the PRO-3500 datasheet. Spectrum’s ePMC-PPC and

ePMC-8311 (‘C64X) modules are currently supported.

[ TM1-3300 ]

The TM1-3300 is a cPCI transition module supporting four 80 MHz ADCs and four 160 MHz DACs, for interfacing to any

commercial RF front-end unit with an analog IF, or a baseband signal interface.

For more information on the TM1-3300, please see the TM1-3300 datasheet.

[ TM1-3350 ]

The TM1-3350 is a cPCI transition module supporting two 212 MHz ADCs and two 212 MHz DACs, for interfacing to any

commercial RF front-end unit with an analog IF, or a baseband signal interface.

For more information on the TM1-3350, please see the TM1-3350 datasheet.

[ TM1-3902 ]

The TM1-3902 is both a reference design that facilitates the design of custom I/O as well as a high performance digital I/O

solution for SDR-3000 systems.

For more information on the TM1-3902, please see the TM1-3902 datasheet.

[ flexFabric ]

All signal processing devices, including FPGAs, G4’s and ‘C64X’s, are connected via flexFabric, a serial RapidIO-based switched

fabric that allows virtually any dataflow to be achieved when working with high-data rate front-end processing. flexFabric

supports the following specific features:

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flexFabric - Serial RapidIO-based switched fabric connects all boards with deterministic, low-latency data paths that can

sustain payload data rates of 320 MB/s (full-duplex). A wide variety of application-specific topologies can be created using

different backplanes and backplane overlays.

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Packet switches are built into the PRO-3100. This allows use of passive backplanes, eliminating the backplane as a single point

of failure in high availability systems.

[ Ethernet ]

Both the PRO-3100 and PRO-3500 support 100 Mbps Ethernet via either of:

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PICMG 2.16 compliant CompactPCI Backplane

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