The VPX3-536 from Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions is a rugged, high-performance adaptable real-time processing board featuring an AMD Versal™ Premium VP2502 with AI cores and high-density fiber optic backplane I/O.

Delivering a groundbreaking new AI-enabled accelerated compute architecture, 400 Gbps high-speed crypto engine and up to 28 backplane fiber optic links, the VPX3-536 can handle secure ingest, processing and egress of 784 Gbps of optical sensor or Ethernet data in each direction simultaneously, all aligned to the SOSA® Technical Standard.

This powerful 3U OpenVPX form factor FPGA plug in card (PIC) harnesses the performance and flexibility of the Versal Premium Adaptive System-on-Chip (ASoC) heterogeneous architecture. This combines conventional FPGA programmable logic and Arm™-based Scalar Engines, plus a new DSP Engine architecture and AI engines that allow users to efficiently run artificial intelligence (AI) models and split signal processing workloads between the DSP and AI engines to improve overall performance.

High-speed real-time processing in modern systems requires massive I/O bandwidth through adaptable high-speed serial protocols. Versal Premium devices deliver transceivers capable of supporting 100 Gbps Ethernet, PCIe Gen4, and other high-rate protocols over embedded VPX backplanes and via fiber optic transceivers. Hard IP blocks efficiently implement standardized interfaces such as LPDDR4 SDRAM, PCIe, Ethernet, and others. Tying it all together is a low latency, deterministic Programmable Network on Chip (NoC) to move data between ASoC features without consuming valuable Adaptable Hardware (FPGA) routing resources.