To provide full application coverage and
flexibility, the MAGIC1 offers state-of-the-art
Intel and Freescale
™
processors. System
memory is made up of two banks of dual
data rate SDRAM, with capacity up to
4 GBytes. Users have the choice of a dual
channel GPU, with either the NVIDIA GT 240
GPU with 1 GByte of DDR3 memory, or an
NVIDIA G73 GPU with 256 MBytes of GDDR3
SDRAM. Graphics memory is arranged
in two banks and the GPU connects to
the CPU through a dedicated 16-lane PCI
Express
™
link. Onboard storage is provided
by a solid state disk drive, which boasts a
capacity of up to 256 GBytes, sustained
read performance of 45 MB/second, and a
purge facility to allow data on the drive to
be securely deleted in an emergency.
Environments such as CUDA, OpenCL and
MATLAB are available for rapid application
development. The MAGIC1 is available in
three chassis configurations: Base-plate
cooled when a suitable coldplate is avail-
able; convection cooled with integral fins;
or forced air cooled through hollow sidewall
heat exchangers when no external cooling
mechanism is available.
The 3U VPX form factor of the GRA111
Graphics Board affords high-speed, 16-lane
PCI Express connections to single board
computers. The GRA111, which is built into
the MAGIC1 Display Computer, affords the
maximum communication bandwidth to
a CPU. With a rich set of I/O, the GRA111
is designed to serve many of the most
common video applications. Dual, inde-
pendent channels mean that it is capable
of driving RGB analog component video,
digital DVI 1.0, and HDMI standards. In addi-
tion, the GRA111’s video input capability
allows integration of sensor data using
RS170, NTSC or PAL video formats.
GRA111
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