4 Million Programmable Gates 100 Billion MACs
Configurable - Software Radio Reconfigurable Satellite Modem
Notes:
Here is an existing example of a fully programmable satellite modem.
With 4 million programmable gates and the performance of 100 million programmable
MACs this board is capable of implementing all of the the current products
that this company has in production today. These existing designs can be
modified and enhanced to rapidly deploy new products.
Two lower performance DSP processors support the FPGAs. One is used
to run legacy DSP code and the second is used by the FPGAs as a peripheral
processor for low speed algorithms that can easily implemented on a sequential
machine.
High speed A-to-D converters connect directly to the FPGAs and large
external memories supplement a half megabit of internal FPGA block memories
and up to a megabit of distributed RAM..