Sundance’s SMT135-C in April’s Edition of the COTS Journal
Thermal-Efficient Efinix Titanium Ti135 Evaluation Board for Next-Level Edge Computing
Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd (Sundance) presents the SMT135-C, an Efinix Titanium Ti135 evaluation board designed for edge computing, real-time control, and vision- centric workloads.
The SMT135-C Evaluation Board is based on the SoM6 Ti135 system-on-module (SoM), which is built around the Efinix Titanium Ti135 FPGA in a high-density N676 package. The board comes with enhanced I/O options, including Gigabit Ethernet, Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) connectivity, Samtec Firefly mid-board optical transceiver, SD card interface, and optional 8-lane MIPI TX/RX operation.
Sundance has been an excellent design services and evaluation board partner, and the SMT135-C showcases what’s possible when you combine their engineering expertise with Efinix’s disruptive FPGA architecture.
This board gives developers immediate access to the low-power performance and flexibility of our Ti135 FPGA in a compact, ready-to-deploy SOM form factor that’s ideal for edge AI, machine vision, and real-time control applications. Today’s embedded systems require platforms that combine performance, flexibility, low power, and efficient integration.
As a modular embedded computing platform that meets the performance demands of computationally intensive applications — such as Edge AI, multi-camera and industrial vision systems, and robotics — in a small, power-efficient board, the SMT- 135-C exceeds these expectations.
SMT135-C
The SMT135-C FPGA evaluation board is built around the Sundance SoM6 Ti135 System-on-Module (SoM) and is ideal for edge computing, real-time control, and vision-focused applications. At the heart of the SoM6 is the Efinix Ti135 FPGA, manufactured using TSMC’s 16nm process and featuring the Quantum compute fabric, which delivers high performance and flexibility for advanced embedded systems.
Key features of the Ti135 Quantum fabric include:
- Up to 129,600 logic elements with eXchangeable Logic and Routing (XLR) cells
- 960 blocks of 10-kbit SRAM, totalling approximately 9.83 Mbits
- 480 DSP blocks, supporting integer and BFLOAT16 computations
- A quad-core hardened RISC-V processor with full RV32IMACFD support
The SMT135-C platform is designed to bring these capabilities into a versatile and energy-efficient evaluation board, offering a wide range of connectivity options, including:
- 10/100/1000 Ethernet interfaces
- JTAG and UART over USB-C
- Firefly PCUO optical interface
- 8-lane MIPI interface
- SFP interface
This combination of compute power, flexibility, and connectivity makes the SMT135-C ideal for engineers and developers tackling high-performance embedded applications.