Curtiss-Wright’s Latest 3U OpenVPX™ DSP Module is First to Deliver the Power of Intel® Xeon® D and Xilinx® MPSoC FPGA Processing with TrustedCOTS™ Security

Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions division, a trusted leading supplier of embedded ISR processing technology, is introducing its highest performance 3U OpenVPX digital signal processor (DSP) engine, the CHAMP-XD1S, a multi-core High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) module with advanced security features. The CHAMP-XD1S is the industry’s first Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) board to deliver the performance of a 12 core (576 GFLOPS) Intel Xeon D processor, a Xilinx Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC (ZU4EG) FPGA, and a Flash-based Microsemi® SmartFusion®2 IPMC FPGA with HOST v3.0 support to deliver best-in-class data security.

The board’s advanced TrustedCOTS security features include Enhanced Trusted Boot capabilities, such as FPGA-based authenticated boot code and other features, to protect against malicious cyber attacks and reverse engineering. It also supports Intel Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 and NVMe encrypted Flash. The CHAMP-XD1S features memory modules that provide enhanced security protection for processor and FPGA memory. This fully rugged module is an ideal size, weight and power (SWaP)-optimized solutionfor system integrators seeking to deploy the highest available compute performance in support of compute intensive applications that require high security. It is designed for use in demanding SWaP-constrained radar, SIGINT, EW, and floating-point intensive DSP applications, such as specialized threat analysis and protection (STAP), SAR, sonar, multi-sensor (i.e., EO/IR), direction finding (e.g. TDOA), and mission computing.

The CHAMP-XD1S will be continually enhanced, with multiple capabilities planned for introduction over time, that leverage the secure capabilities of the FPGAs and other devices on the board.

“With the introduction of the new CHAMP-XD1S, we further strengthen our commitment to providing system integrators with the most secure and capable DSP modules available,” said Lynn Bamford, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Defense and Power.“ As the importance of cybersecurity grows every day, our new board, with TrustedCOTS protections, delivers a highly secure, supercomputer-class ISR processing solution for the most demanding and SWaP-constrained HPEC applications.”