Curtiss-Wright SVME-414 VME System Board PowerPC XC2VP50 FPGA SVME-414-0000

Curtiss-Wright SVME-414 VME System Board PowerPC XC2VP50 FPGA SVME-414-0000

The Curtiss-Wright SVME-414 is a 6U VMEbus single-board computer designed for high-performance embedded signal processing in aerospace and defense applications. Part number SVME-414-0000, hardware revision A-1, this board carries two Delphi Engineering PowerPC XC2VP50 FPGA processor mezzanine modules — each based on the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro XC2VP50 device in the 1152-ball BGA package — providing a dual-FPGA compute architecture suited to demanding real-time signal and data processing tasks.

Specifications & What's Included

• Manufacturer: Curtiss-Wright
• Model: SVME-414 | Part Number: SVME-414-0000
• Hardware Revision: REV A-1
• Form Factor: 6U VMEbus (VME) card
• Processor Module 1: Delphi Engineering PowerPC XC2VP50 — P/N ADC3201-340B2 (XC2VP50 FF1152CGB0425)
• Processor Module 2: Delphi Engineering PowerPC XC2VP50 — P/N ADC3202-340B1 (XC2VP50 FF1152CGB0425)
• FPGA Device: Xilinx Virtex-II Pro XC2VP50, 1152-ball flip-chip BGA package
• Front Panel: Multiple SMA RF connectors (4 visible: 2x TrigX, 2x TrigX labeled channels); VME ejector handles (top and bottom)
• Backplane Interface: VME P1/P2 edge connectors
• PCB: Multi-layer green substrate with extensive discrete logic, SRAM, and support ICs populated across both sides
• Heatsink: Aluminum fin heatsink array covering mezzanine modules
• Source: Aerospace excess
• Included: Board with both installed FPGA processor mezzanine modules and VME ejector handles

Applications

The SVME-414 belongs to Curtiss-Wright's line of VMEbus embedded computing boards targeted at aerospace, defense, and government programs requiring high-throughput digital signal processing and FPGA-based compute in a rugged, standards-compliant form factor. VMEbus (IEEE 1014) has been a backbone interconnect standard in military avionics, radar, electronic warfare, sonar, and ground-based defense systems since the early 1980s, and remains in active service in many long-lifecycle defense platforms today. Boards of this class are used in applications such as sensor fusion, software-defined radio, radar signal processing, and real-time image processing — tasks where the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA's combination of embedded PowerPC 405 processor cores and high-speed DSP fabric offers significant parallelism. The XC2VP50 was a flagship Xilinx device of the mid-2000s era, widely adopted in SIGINT, EW, and communications payload hardware. This board is relevant to defense integrators maintaining or upgrading VME-based systems, as well as research and academic institutions using VME chassis for FPGA-accelerated computing.