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Base Boards

FPGA-based core of the proFRAME grabber system

The core of the proFRAME modular frame grabber system is the base board, a plug-in card with a powerful FPGA for real-time data processing and precise time stamping featuring slots for proFRAME camera adapters for connection of up to 8 cameras. Depending on the hardware generation and product variant, different adapters are supported.

The following types of proFRAME 3.0 Base Boards are available:

You can find earlier base board models in our product archives.

Overview proFRAME 3.0 Base Boards

Form factor

Product

proFRAME Base Board 3.0 CompactPCI Serial

The third generation of proFRAME base boards made its debut in CompactPCI Serial (CPCI-S.0) form, offering four times the data rates of its predecessor to support state-of-the-art automotive cameras.

The Base Board is built around a Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ ZU4CG MPSoC, enabling increased data transfer rates of up to 40 Gbit/s for each of its new-type camera adapter interfaces.

The corresponding camAD3 adapter modules take advantage of this, offering up to four camera inputs or outputs on a single adapter. proFRAME 3.0 adapters using GMSL2, GMSL3, FPD-Link III and FPD-Link IV (de)serializers are available or currently in development.

  • 2× camAD3 camera adapter interfaces, each max. 40 Gbit/s video data interface
    • 4× CSI-2 interfaces 4 lanes each up to 2.5 Gbit/s.
      Total 40 Gbit/s or
      23× LVDS data lanes each up to 1.6 Gbit/s.
      Total 36.8 Gbit/s
    • 4× I2C interface (1 MBaud) to serializer and deserializer chips
    • 1× I2C interface to internal devices
      (e.g., EEPROM, interface FPGAs, PoC pot, …)
    • 1× SPI interface to serializer and deserializer chips
    • 5 to 24V supply for Power over Coax (PoC)
    • FSYNC trigger, interrupt, reference clock and other
      GPIO signals
  • PCIe x8 Gen3 interface (64 Gbit/s) to CompactPCI Serial backplane
  • Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ ZU4CG MPSoC (FBVB900)
  • Processing subsystem: Dual-core ARM® Cortex™-A53 MPCore™ up to 1.3 GHz
  • 2 GB DDR4 of PS (processing system) memory, up to 150 Gbit/s
  • CompactPCI Serial (CPCI-S.0) 3U form factor
  • Temperature range: −20 to +85 °C
Product

proFRAME Base Board 3.0 PCIe

All the advanced features of the CompactPCI Serial version, but realized as a PCI Express board for regular PC systems. Fully compatible with the new camAD3 camera adapter line.

  • 2× camAD3 camera adapter interface, each max. 40 Gbit/s video data interface
    • 4× CSI-2 interfaces 4 lanes each up to 2.5 Gbit/s.
      Total 40 Gbit/s or
      23× LVDS data lanes each up to 1.6 Gbit/s.
      Total 36.8 Gbit/s
    • 4× I2C interface (1 MBaud) to serializer and deserializer chips
    • 1× I2C interface to internal devices
      (e.g., EEPROM, interface FPGAs, PoC pot, …)
    • 1× SPI interface to serializer and deserializer chips
    • 5 to 24V supply for Power over Coax (PoC)
    • FSYNC trigger, interrupt, reference clock and other
      GPIO signals
  • PCIe x8 Gen3 Interface (64 Gbit/s)
  • Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ ZU4CG MPSoC (FBVB900)
  • Processing subsystem: Dual-core ARM® Cortex™-A53 MPCore™ up to 1.3 GHz
  • 2 GB DDR4 of PS (processing system) memory, up to 150 Gbit/s
  • PCI Express form factor, board dimensions: 175.26 mm × 106.68 mm (full height, half length)
  • Temperature range: −20 to +85 °C