Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of FPGA Board

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Jan 9, 2014, 8:56:32 AM (10 years ago)

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murphpo

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+'''This page describes the first generation WARP FPGA Board - Please refer to the [wiki:HardwarePlatform Hardware Platform User Guides] for documentation on current WARP hardware'''
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 = WARP FPGA Board =
 The main board in the platform is the FPGA board. At the heart of this design is a Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA. This family of FPGAs is very well suited for the kinds of DSP-intensive operations required by wireless algorithms. For example, the FPGA provides dedicated multipliers, hardware blocks which implement efficient and fast multiplication, a critical operation in signal processing designs. The FPGAs also provide flexible and fast interconnect options for interfacing peripherals and creating multi-processor systems, two primary requirements of the platform design. The Virtex-II Pro also includes embedded PowerPC processor cores, providing an ideal resource for implementing higher layer algorithms better suited for general purpose processors than programmable logic.