Texas Instruments’ DSP:

• TMS320C5502 16-bits fixed point DSP @ 300 MHz
• 32 Kwords of on-chip DARAM

Xilinx’s Spartan-3 FPGA:

• XS3S400 FPGA @ 150 MHz
• 400,000 gates
• 56 Kbits distributed RAM, 288 Kbits block RAM
• 16 dedicated 18 x 18 multipliers
• 4 DCMs
• Provides 63 user-configurable I/Os

Memory:

• 64 Kbytes on-chip (DSP) double-access RAM, mapped in data program spaces
• 4 Mbytes external 75 MHz Synchronous Dynamic RAM, mapped in data and program space
• 2 Mbytes external Flash ROM, mapped in data program space

I/O Interfaces:

• 63 digital I/Os through the FPGA
• Universal Asynchrounous Receiver/Transmitter (UART)
• USB 2.0 PC connection. Average data throughput: 20 Mb/s. Stand-alone USB controller requires no management from the DSP software
• JTAG connector
• 2 McBSPs (multi-channel buffered serial ports) for interfacing Analog Interface ICs

Power Supply

Signal Ranger MK2 is self-powered using an external 5V (±5%) power pack.

Development Tools

• Driver for Win2K and WinXP
• Full-featured symbolic debugger
• Access library and LabVIEW interface
• Self-test application
• Flash driver and example codes
• Initial FPGA configuration

Dimensions

17.5 cm x 7.3 cm