Leveraged on its past experience, FVPL has developed a custom VME board and its associated IPs to meet high performance communication requirements of MALE and HALE class RPAs. The board hardware and firmware are designed to handle flight critical RPA communication needs. Towards this, FVPL has developed certifiable communication IPs to meet the stringent requirement of command/telemetry data transfer between Ground Control Station and RPAs. FVPL has also developed a test bench and generated the requisite artefacts to facilitate Software & Firmware certification.
VME Based Communication Processor
The key technical specifications of VME board are as follows:
- VME Form factor: VME64X with P0
- Cooling: Conduction and Air-cooled
- Processing module: Ultrascale+ SOM (K26 SOM).
- Communication ports:
- PCM input channel with clock: 3 Nos
- PCM output channel with clock: 3 Nos
- PCM channel data rate support: 20 Mbps
- Bi-phase input channel: 1 No.
- Bi-phase output channel: 1 No.
- Full duplex RS-422: 20 Nos.
- Digital IO: 16 Nos.
- Ethernet ports: 4 Nos.
FVPL has also developed a high performance, non-blocking, custom scheduler with slot performance monitoring scheme using asymmetric processing, required for certification purposes.