Aim AMCX-PSI-16 User manual

Hardware
Manual
V01.00 Rev. A
October 2017
AMCX-PSI-16
16 Channels
PANAVIA
PCI Mezzanine Card Module for PMC

AMCX-PSI-16 Hardware Manual
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AMCX-PSI-16
16 Channels
PANAVIA
PCI Mezzanine Card Module for PMC
V01.00 Rev. A
October 2017
AIM No.
60-14A30-16-0100-A
Hardware
Manual

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DOCUMENT HISTORY
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01.00 Rev A
26.10.2017
E. Carraro
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section Title Page
1. INTRODUCTION .....................................................................................................1
1.1. General ...............................................................................................................1
1.2. How This Manual is Organized............................................................................2
1.3. Applicable Documents.........................................................................................2
1.3.1. Industry Documents ........................................................................................2
1.3.2. Product Specific Documents ...........................................................................2
2. INSTALLATION.......................................................................................................3
2.1. Preparation and Precaution for Installation..........................................................3
2.2. Installation Instructions........................................................................................3
2.3. Connecting to other Devices................................................................................4
2.3.1. Front Panel Connector Pin-out........................................................................5
2.3.2. PMC Connector P11/P12................................................................................6
2.4. Onboard LEDs...................................................................................................10
3. STRUCTURE OF THE AMCX-PSI-16 .....................................................................7
3.1. PCI Express Interface and BIU-I/O FPGA............................................................8
3.1.1. Global RAM Interface and Arbitration..............................................................8
3.1.2. Boot Function..................................................................................................8
3.2. Global RAM.........................................................................................................8
3.3. BIU Section .........................................................................................................8
3.4. BIU-Processor (BIP)............................................................................................9
3.5. PANAVIA Encoder...............................................................................................9
3.6. PANAVIA Decoder ..............................................................................................9
3.7. IRIG- and Time Code Section..............................................................................9
3.8. Timecode Encoder/Decoder................................................................................9
3.9. Time Tag Methods.............................................................................................10
3.10. Power Supply ....................................................................................................10
4. TECHNICAL DATA ...............................................................................................12
5. NOTES ..................................................................................................................17
5.1. Acronyms ..........................................................................................................17
6. APPENDIX ............................................................................................................19

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LIST OF TABLES
Table Title Page
Table 2.1: Fornt Panel Connector Pinout................................................................................5
Table 2.2: Pin Assignment of PMC connector ........................................................................6
Table 2.3: LEDS ordering and meaning................................................................................10
Table 3.1 IRIG-B: Binary Coded Time Tag.............................................................................9
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure Title Page
Figure 2-1 Installing an Air Cooled AMCX-PSI-16 Mezzanine Module....................................4
Figure 2-2 SCSI-3 68 pin Hi-D-SUB Female Connector .........................................................4
Figure 2-3: LEDs positioning on the board............................................................................11
Figure 3-1: AMCX-PSI-16 Internal Structure...........................................................................7

1. Introduction
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1. INTRODUCTION
General1.1.
This document comprises the Hardware User’s Manual for the AMCX-PSI-16 Mezzanine
Cards. The document covers the hardware installation, the board connections the technical
data and a general description of the hardware architecture. For programming information
please refer to the documents listed in the ‘Applicable Documents’ section.
The AMCX-PSI-16 modules are members of AIM's new family of advanced PCI based PMC-
Mezzanine (IEEE Std 1386.1) for analyzing, simulating, monitoring and testing of avionic
databus systems.
The AMCX-PSI-16 card is used to simulate, monitor and inject protocol errors of PANAVIA
standard based databus systems. The AMCX-PSI-16 offers a total of 16 PANAVIA channels
with a fixed partitioning of eight receive and eight transmit channels. An onboard IRIG-B
analogue time decoder is included with sinusoidal input and ‘freewheeling’ mode for time tag
synchronization.
The IO connector is a standard SCSI-3 68 pin 1.27mm 90° Hi-D-SUB Female Connector.
The PMC module is designed to be plugged on either a host carrier board to adapt to busses
like standard PCI or cPCI, or on an embedded host computer with PMC ports.
The hardware architecture provides ample resources (i.e. processing capability and memory)
to guarantee, that all specified interface functions are available concurrently and to full
performance specifications.
The advanced architecture uses one processor to handle the 16 data streams. A powerful
Memory Arbiter and PCI-Express Controller is implemented in a Field Programmable Gate
Array (FPGA). This FPGA supports both, the interface to the application and driver software
tasks running on the host computer and assists the communication for data transfer.
This feature expands the capability of the AMCX-PSI-16 module to that of a high level
instrument.
A free-wheeling IRIG-B Time code Decoder is implemented on AMCX-PSI-16 to satisfy the
requirements of 'multi-channel time tag synchronization' on the system level.

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How This Manual is Organized1.2.
This AMCX-PSI-16 Hardware Manual is comprised of following sections.
a. Section 1 - Introduction - contains an overview of this manual.
b. Section 2 - Installation - describes the steps required to install the AMCX-PSI-
16 device, and connect the device to other external interfaces
c. Section 3 - Structure of AMCX-PSI-16 - describes the physical hardware
interfaces on the card using a block diagram and a description of each main
component
d. Section 4 - Technical Data - describes the technical specification of AMCX-
PSI-16.
Applicable Documents1.3.
The following documents shall be considered to be a part of this document to the
extent that they are referenced herein. In the event of conflict between the
documents referenced and the contents of this document, the contents of this
document shall have precedence.
1.3.1. Industry Documents
TORNADO A.D. VARIANT Serial Highway Interface Specification
CIS/172126/2052
PCI Local Bus Specification Rev. 3.0 –February 3, 2004
IEEE Standard for a Common Mezzanine Card (CMC) Family,
IEEE Std 1386-2001, 14 June 2001
IEEE Standard Physical and Environmental Layers for PCI Mezzanine Cards
(PMC),
IEEE Std 1386.1-2001, 14 June 2001
1.3.2. Product Specific Documents
AIM - Reference Manual AMCX-PSI-16 Application Interface Library
Detailed description of the programming interface between the Host Carrier board
and the onboard driver software.