CHAMP-XD4
The CHAMP-XD4 6U OpenVPX™ rugged processor card is designed for use in very compute-intensive industrial, and aerospace and defense applications, enabling developers of High-Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) systems to take full advantage of the unmatched performance of today’s leading-edge Intel Ice Lake D architecture
Overview
The CHAMP-XD4 6U OpenVPX™ rugged processor card is designed for use in very compute-intensive industrial, and aerospace and defense applications, enabling developers of High-Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) systems to take full advantage of the unmatched performance of today’s leading-edge Intel Ice Lake D architecture. The CHAMP-XD4 6U OpenVPX rugged processor card provides more than twice the processing capacity and bandwidth than prior generation products. Paired with our CHAMP-FX7 for front-end sensor ingest, the card-set enables a powerful back-end/front-end processing solution for the highest-performance radar and other sensor processing systems.
The CHAMP-XD4 combines the high core count and floating-point performance of the Intel 10th Gen “Ice Lake” Xeon D-2700 processors with the substantial bandwidth and system-enabling features of the VITA 6U OpenVPX form factor. Providing dual extended temperature Intel Xeon D-2700 processors, which can support 12, 16, or 20 cores per device, the CHAMP-XD4 brings Intel’s new AVX512 floating-point capability to the rugged embedded marketplace. This is coupled with 128 GB of high-capacity DDR4-2400 with a bandwidth of >19 GBps per channel with four channels per processor. With additional memory channels and enhanced speed, these modules provide over twice the memory bandwidth of their predecessors, eliminating memory access bottlenecks.
Aligned with the SOSA Technical Standard, the CHAMP-XD4 supports a 100GbE Data Plane, dual 10 GbE Control Plane interfaces, and up to 32 lanes of Gen4 PCI Express® (PCIe) on the P2 and P5 Expansion Plane. The module contains an AMD MPSoC field programmable gate array (FPGA) with embedded quad-core Arm® A53 processor and dual-core R5 processor used for TrustedCOTS security, or as a co-processor with additional general purpose I/O.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Dual Intel Xeon D-2700 series processors (12, 16, 20 core options)
- Developed in alignment with the SOSA Technical Standard as a 6U Compute Intensive Processor Plug-in-Card
- 6U VPX conduction cooled form factor with 2LM covers
- Two Intel D-2700 CPUs with 12, 16 or 20 cores each at up to 2.0 GHz
- Four memory channels totaling 64 GB DDR4 @2400 mega transfers per second per CPU node (76.8 GB/s aggregate per node)
- Quad 100 Gb Ethernet ports on the VPX Data Plane with RoCE V2 RDMA support
- 32-lanes PCIe Gen4 Expansion Plane
- Dedicated AMD® ZU6EG to ZU15EG MPSoC FPGA with embedded quad-core A53 processor and 4 GB of SDRAM memory for enhanced security or co-processing applications
