WILDSTAR 3SN0 3U OpenVPX Storage – WS3SN0
When Storage capability is needed, Annapolis offers the highest density OpenVPX storage solutions on the market, with up to 16.0 TB of capacity in a single 1” 3U slot, and up to 5 GB/sec read/write bandwidth. This hot-swappable board (10,000 insertion cycles) is 100GbE capable, and is developed in alignment with SOSA™.
Annapolis Storage Solutions are optimized for SIGINT, ELINT, EW, or other high-bandwidth storage applications.

The 3U WILDSTAR Data Storage Solution features up to 16 TB storage depth, and up to 5 GB/sec bandwidth, plus additional depth and bandwidth capacity using multiple Cards.
One Xilinx Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC ZU7 Motherboard Controller allows stand-alone operation, and supports multiple levels of hardware and software security.
The Board has a rugged design and is available in industrial temperature grades. Optional air, conduction, air-flow-through, and liquid-cooled environments.
High-bandwidth backplane connectivity is enabled by MULTIGIG RT3 interconnects, which deliver 100Gb per Fat Pipe.
The 3SN0 is part of Annapolis’ growing WILD100 EcoSystem™, an interoperable portfolio of rugged high-performance 100Gb VPX COTS boards and systems.
General Features
- 8.0 / 16.0 TB storage depth in a single 1” 3U slot
- Data rates up to 5 GB/sec read and write
- Scalable Depth and Bandwidth using multiple Storage Cards
- Supports NVMe over Fabrics for Network Attached Storage
- Supports NFS over RDMA providing for storage network mount service
- Multiple types of encryption supported
- Hot Swappable with 10,000 Insertion Cycles (exclusive to WILD OpenVPX EcoSystem)
- Developed in alignment with SOSA™
- Options for FIPS 140-2 compliance
One Xilinx Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC ZU7
- Motherboard Controller
- Allows for non-PCIe based interfaces such as 40GbE or user defined protocols
- Includes 40GbE IP
- Allows stand-alone operation
- Processing Subsystem (PS)
- Quad-core 64-bit ARM® Cortex-A53
- Dual-core 32-bit Cortex-R5 real-time processor
- Mali-400 MP2 graphics processing unit
- One 64-bit, 4 GB DDR4 memory
- 256Kb user SPI FRAM
- Programmable Logic (PL)
- Up to 2928 DSP slices or 1,143,00 logic cells
- Up to 36Mb of High Bandwidth, Low Latency UltraRAM
- Gen3 PCIe, 150G Interlaken and 100Gb Ethernet Hard Cores
- GTH/GTY transceivers operating up to 32.75 Gb/s
- 256Kb user SPI FRAM
- 16nm FinFET+ process
- Board support enabling user customization of ZYNQ+ design
- Multiple levels of hardware and software security
Backplane I/O
- Backplane I/O: using PCIe, 40Gb Ethernet
- Optional VITA 66 optical up to 100GbE
- Dual 4x PCIe Gen3 backplane interfaces
- On-board PCIe Gen3 switch
- Allows daisy chaining of boards without system switch in chassis
System Management
- 3U OpenVPX (VITA 65) Compliant, 1” VITA 48.1 spacing
- Current, Voltage and Temperature Monitoring Sensors
- Front panel status LEDs for drives and PCIe link status
- Proactive Thermal Management
Standard Board Support Package (BSP)
- 40 Gb Reference Design binary
- Allows for one full duplex I/O stream to the 4x NVME SSD canister
- Default I/O Options
- DP1: TCP/40GbE or TCP/10GbE on lane 0
- P2A/EP[3:0] (depending on build option): TCP/40GbE or TCP/10GbE on lane 0
- Alternative I/O Options
- P2A/EP[3:0] (depending on build option): 10Gbps x4 (40Gb) Aurora
Optional Board Support Package (BSP)
- HPE HDL reference designs’ source
- PetaLinux project including all required software source
- FSBL, Uboot, and corresponding patches
- Ubuntu 18.04 + Kernel v4.19
- Driver patches for NVME and PCIe
- libannapFs1, libwb[X]sn0-rd0, libwb[X]sn0-rd2 source
- Requires Vivado 2021.1
- Order separately using P/N S00000-1H
- Required for front panel RS485/GPIO/I2C usage
Mechanical and Environmental
- 3U OpenVPX Compliant 1.0″ spacing
- RT3 backplane connectors for 100G support
- Integrated Heat Sink and Board Stiffener
- Available in Industrial Temperature Grades
- Available for Air, Conduction and Air-Flow-Through environments
- Only requires +12V and Optionally +3.3VAUX from backplane
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