| Modular AMC Form Factor DSP Resource Board for Carrier Grade Applications |
Main Features
- AdvancedMC form-factor DSP farm, pre-integrated with leading ATCA carrier boards and MicroTCA chassis
- Complete media processing package for audio, video, modem and fax
- Flexible and scalable modular design supporting up to 8 TI C64x DSPs on board
- Carrier-grade, field-proven and cost-effective solution saving resources and reducing R&D efforts
- Dedicated customer service, ensuring fastest time-to-market
- Built-in diagnostics, providing easier troubleshooting and better application control
- Can be provided as hardware-only solution for DSP-intensive applications
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Cost-effective Processing in Powerful Yet Flexible Computing Environment
The SurfRider/AMC is a fully-integrated RoHS-compliant AMC DSP resource board providing flexible yet heavy-duty multimedia processing capabilities. Featuring Surf's revolutionary patent-pending modular design and Open Framework approach, which allows seamless integration of user-defined and proprietary algorithms, the SurfRider/AMC meets IMS requirements and is the ideal choice for development of a wide range of carrier-grade telecom applications. It is field-proven, having already been implemented by a number of Tier-1 TEMs.
The SurfRider/AMC features the SurfDocker™, a modular plug-in that is designed to carry pairs of DSPs, including the latest and future members of Texas Instruments' C64x series. This paradigm allows population of different types of DSPs on each AMC carrier without modifying the application. Up to four SurfDocker modules can be plugged into a single SurfRider/AMC, for a total of eight DSPs per AMC board for maximum flexibility.
SurfRider/AMC is provided with SurfWare-Media, Surf's telecom-ready media processing software that allows proprietary applications to be embedded directly into the DSP framework. The SurfRider/AMC supports the standards-based PICMG® SFP I-TDM protocol over Gigabit Ethernet for transporting audio, video, fax and modem traffic. This makes the SurfRider/AMC the perfect solution for ATCA and MicroTCA platforms in various types of systems.
Texas Instruments' C64x series of DSP devices are specifically designed to handle converged applications that require a high-performance fixed-point processing architecture with significant memory and multiple high-speed I/O paths, such as audio, video, and wireless applications.
In addition to telephony applications, the SurfRider/AMC DSP resource board can serve as a flexible, high-capacity, programmable platform for other processing-intense applications such as video processing, VoIP, cryptography, and medical imaging.
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Optimized for IMS and Other Carrier-Grade Applications
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Typical network topology illustrating how the SurfRider/AMC DSP resource card integrates into network infrastructure equipment to enable convergence of Voice + Video + Data across Wireline and Wireless networks.
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System Highlights
- Simple, high-level API provides access and control over DSP interfaces
- Audio and Video Streaming
- Play/record of audio and video streams from Host file system to IP, TDM, or 3G networks
- Content adaptation; real-time audio-video transcoding
- Voice and Video Conferencing
- N-Way conferencing on a single DSP
- Up to 96 participants when using inter DSP communication
- Dynamic dominant speaker recognition
- Addition/removal of participants during conference
- Distributed solution
- Video Display Capabilities
- User-defined/pre-defined screen layout defining size and location for each picture component
- Background and foreground setting in run-time
- Picture overlap support (picture-in-picture)
- Dynamic text overlay (Unicode)
- Advanced Video Toolbox
- Configurable frame rate
- Bit rate change
- Resize to any resolution
- Video codec change
- Logo insertion
- Text overlay
- Supports Linux and Windows Host OS
- Reliable Host-DSP communication over UDP
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Software Specifications
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System Software Architecture Diagram
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Board Architecture: Unique Flexible Design
The SurfRider/AMC has been designed to support application development from prototype through production: the same board can be used for all stages of the development cycle.
With this innovative, modular approach, hardware design decisions can be made in parallel to application development, such as:
- the interfaces to be used in the final AMC solution
- the specific type of DSPs to be used in the final system
- the number of DSPs per board needed to achieve the required channel density
- the types of DSPs to be integrated on the same board simultaneously
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The SurfRider/AMC is a fully integrated mezzanine card that has been designed as per the PICMG AMC standards. It has been pre-integrated with a number of leading carrier manufacturers’ products and can be mounted on various platforms, as follows:
Surf's SurfRider/AMC solution is comprised of a main board and plug-in modules, as follows:
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Main Board
- Supports AMC.2 configuration
- Supported external interfaces include:
- 2 Gbit Ethernet (AMC.2 Type E2)
- iTDM (PICMG SFP.1 R1.0 iTDM)
- RS-232 serial interface (UART)
- 1x Serial RapidIO directly from the AMC connector to each DSP (optional)
- PowerPC 405 implemented within the Interface FPGA for board management
- Hosts up to eight DSPs using 1-4 SurfDocker plug-in modules, with two DSPs on each module (i.e., flexible support for 2, 4, 6, or 8 DSPs)
- Supports different types of DSPs on the same AMC board, using different SurfDocker plug-in modules
- Configurable direct DSP interface to AMC via FPGAs; distributed switching architecture
- All data and controls are passed to the DSPs via Surf's proprietary high-speed interface
- Supports single IP for entire board or individual DSP IP for maximum resource management flexibility
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SurfDocker Plug-in Module (module differs per DSP type)
- Two DSPs from the TI C64x™ family, including:
- TMS320C6412™ - SurfDocker-212™
- TMS320C6424™ - SurfDocker-224™
- TMS320TCI6482™ - SurfDocker-282™
- Private memory per DSP (SDRAM, DDR, DDR2; based on the DSP)
- FPGA*: handles the interface between the main board and the specific DSP
* A different FPGA is used for each DSP type.
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Hardware Specifications
- Power Requirements
- Up to 35W per fully-populated TCI6482 board
- Operating Conditions
- Temperature: 0°C - 50°C (32°F - 122°F)
- Humidity: 20% to 80% (non-condensing)
- Storage Conditions
- Temperature: -25°C - 85°C (-13°F - 185°F)
- JTAG
- DSP JTAG connector for DSP emulation
- FPGA JTAG connector for FPGA booting and programming
- Boundary-Scan JTAG
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Regulatory Compliance
The SurfRider/AMC complies with the following Regulation Standards (Electromagnetic, Safety, and Environmental):
- EMC
- US: FCC part 15 Class A with shielded telecom cables and STP Ethernet cables
- Canada: IECS-003 with shielded telecom cables and STP Ethernet cables
- EU: EN55024:1998 A1: 2001/A2:2003; EM55022:1998 A1:2000/A2:2003 Class B with shielded telecom cables and STP Ethernet cables
- Safety
- US: UL Std No 60950-1
- Canada: CAN/CSA-22.2 Number 60950-1-03
- EN: 60950-1: 2001
- Environmental
- IEC 60068-2-1/2 High & Low Temperature
- IEC 60068-2-14 Temperature cycle
- IEC 60068-2-30 Humidity 90-100%, +25+55C
- IEC 60068-2-64 Random vibration
- IEC 60068-2-27 Shock
- IEC 60068-2-32 Free fall
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| Typical Channel Densities |
| Application |
8xC6482 @1GHz |
Features |
| IP-TDM G.711 |
1024 |
- Full duplex
- Block size 20ms
- Echo canceller (32ms)
- VAD
- Adaptive jitter buffer
- Full tone detection enabled
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| IP-TDM LBR G.729 |
688 |
| N-way G.711 voice conference |
1360 |
- Full duplex
- 3 dominant speakers
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| Audio/Video conferencing server |
4 participants on 16 bridges |
- 4 Decoders H.263 @CIF, 20fps
- 4 VoIP G.711 front ends
- Video mixing & resizing
- 1 Encoder H.263 @CIF 20fps
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| IP to 3G-324M video gateway |
40 |
- 15fps, CIF ‹–› 10fps QCIF
- Bi-directional
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| Video transcoding gateway |
224 |
- H.263 –› MPEG-4, 10fps, QCIF
- Uni-directional
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