Ace – PCIE Processor Card

The Ace board offers the most advanced video and image processing in the smallest form factor available today. Ace is perfect for application development and prototyping to deployment. The module can fit into the tightest Cost, Size, Weight and Power (C-SWaP) applications or work with larger systems with 1, 4, 8, 16 or more channels of video inputs.

Description

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  • Two hard PCI Express Gen3 intellectual property (IP) blocks
  • 96 integrated transceivers with short reach rates up to 17.4 Gbps
  • 1,708,800 registers, 1150K LEs, 2713 M20K memory blocks
  • 1,366 GFLOPs with OpenCLâ„¢ support

Ace is perfect for application development, and prototyping to deployment. The module can fit into the tightest Cost, Size, Weight and Power (C-SWaP) applications or be a part of larger systems with 1, 4, 8, 16 or more channels of video inputs.

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Features

Key Features

  • H.264 Part 10 video encoding & streaming
  • Fully integrated in Qsys
  • All VHDL & Verilog wrappers included
  • Altera Arria 10 FPGA
  • 2 x 8 Gen3 PCIe
  • DisplayPort input & output
  • Two USB 3.0 host inputs
  • Gigabit Ethernet
  • Self-health monitoring
  • Altera Enpirion and Intersil power supplies

Configurations

  • Stand-alone
  • I/O module—stack down
  • 1 to N stack

Altera Video and Image Processing (VIP) Suite

  • Frame reader
  • Control synchronizer
  • Switch
  • Color space converter
  • Chroma resampler
  • 2D FIR filter
  • Alpha blending mixer
  • Scaler II: edge adaptive
  • Scaler
  • Broadcast deinterlacer
  • Deinterlacer II
  • Clipper
  • Color plane sequencer
  • Frame buffer
  • 2D median filter
  • Gamma corrector
  • Clocked video input and output
  • Deinterlacer
  • Test pattern generator
  • Avalon-ST video monitor
  • Trace system

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Applications

  • Video capture
  • Video recording
  • Video downlinking
  • Image processing
  • Machine vision
  • Robotics
  • Industrial inspection
  • Arria 10 development
  • HPEC with OpenCLâ„¢ research & development

Specifications

Stacking Connectors (Top and Bottom)

  • Two x8 PCIe Gen 3 Links
  • SMBus
  • 12V power

Additional Connectors (Top and Bottom)

  • 24 FPGA LVDS lanes
  • 4 16.0 Gbps FPGA transceiver lanes

FPGA

  • Altera Arria 10 (10AX115U3F45)
  • 1150 KLE
  • Up to 800MHz core fabric clock speed

Flash Memory

  • 1 Gb Serial Flash memory for FPGA configuration images
  • 2 Gb Parallel NOR Flash memory for FPGA configuration images or user application memory

MCU

  • Freescale Kinetis K61 (K61P144M120SF3)
  • Up to 120MHz ARM Cortex-M4 core
  • System configuration
  • Power sequencing
  • Power monitoring
  • User-defined functions

PCI Express Switch

  • Performs PCI-Express traffic forwarding so that a PC/104 stack host can communicate with several ACE modules over the 2×8 PCIe links

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