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Xilinx Offers First 5Gbps FPGA-Based Solution Compliant With PCI Express Version 2.0
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs Added to PCI-SIG's Integrator's List as Part of Broad Solution from Xilinx Including IP, Reference Designs, Development Platforms and Characterization Reports
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX)
today announced its Virtex(R)-5 FXT FPGA platform is fully compliant with
version 2.0 of the PCI Express(R) standard, making it the first FPGA offering
available to support the 5Gbps version of the widely-adopted serial
interconnect standard. Having passed the last round of specification testing
at the PCI-SIG's Compliance Workshop #62, the Virtex-5 FXT FPGA platform has
been added to the PCI-SIG(R) Integrator's List as the centerpiece of a broad
range of design resources from Xilinx and its alliance members that support
PCIe(R) 2.0 applications.
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With built-in 6.5Gbps Rocket IO(TM) GTX transceiver technology, Virtex-5
FXT FPGAs are ideally suited to support the PCIe 2.0 specification, which
doubles the interconnect bit rate over the previous version from 2.5Gbps to
5Gbps to support leading-edge high-bandwidth applications. The recently
announced Virtex-5 TXT FPGA platform, which has up to 48 RocketIO GTX
transceivers, also supports the PCIe 2.0 standard. Drawing less than 150mW
typical, per transceiver at 5Gbps, the RocketIO GTX transceivers enable
designers to realize high-speed PCIe 2.0 performance on an FPGA with minimal
power consumption.
To see a Tech-on-Line webcast on how to implement PCI Express version 2.0
compliant designs with Virtex-5 FPGAs, please visit:
http://www.techonline.com/learning/webinar/211800334.
Xilinx teamed up with key alliance members to provide a comprehensive
suite of design resources, including IP cores, for PCIe 2.0 multilane (x1, x2,
x4, x8) support, hardware development platforms, and reference designs. These
complementary offerings provide a complete, scalable and flexible solution to
quickly develop systems with higher performing interconnect at lower cost to
deliver first-time design success.
"The PCIe 2.0 standard offers the highest bandwidth and most power
optimized version of the standard to date and is critical for high-end
applications in the telecommunications and server markets where our Virtex-5
devices are widely used," said Mustafa Veziroglu, vice president of Product
Solutions Management at Xilinx. "Our long track record of supporting PCIe,
and our own product strategy that includes mapping to the standard's
capabilities, enables us to offer designers a proven pathway to implement each
new version of PCIe standard."
Broad Range of Support
Xilinx Alliance Program members GDA, Northwest Logic and PLDA provide IP
cores to enable PCI Express solutions on Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT FPGA devices.
The Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT is the first FPGA platform to provide PCIe 2.0 x8
support. IP Cores from all three of these alliance members have passed the
PCI Express version 2.0 compliance testing. In addition, Northwest Logic
provides DMA back-end core, combining with their x8 PCIe 2.0 core to support
high-performance, on-demand, multi-DMA engine operation with 3,000 Mbytes/s
Card-to-System and 2,600 Mbytes/s System-to-Card throughput on Intel DX58SO
platform. The Virtex-5 FXT and the newly introduced TXT silicon platforms
contain the same high-performance GTX transceivers; additionally all IP and
reference designs for PCIe 2.0 available for the Virtex-5 FXT platform can be
easily ported to the Virtex-5 TXT platform.
The GTX serial transceivers available on both the Virtex-5 FXT and TXT
FPGA platforms have been fully characterized across process, voltage and
temperature (PVT), and the complete report is available for download at
www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/virtex-characterization_reports.htm.
For more information on the Xilinx PCI Express solutions, go to:
http://www.xilinx.com/pcie.
About the Virtex-5 FXT and TXT Platforms
The Virtex-5 FXT FPGA platform is optimized for high-performance embedded
processing, digital signal processing (DSP) and high-speed serial connectivity
to offer the ultimate in system integration. The Virtex-5 FXT platform
includes the first FPGAs to feature industry-standard PowerPC(R) 440 processor
blocks. It also includes up to 24 high performance GTX transceivers capable
of 6.5Gbps performance and DSP48E slices that deliver more than 190 GMAC's of
performance. The Virtex-5 TXT FPGA platform is the fifth addition Virtex-5
FPGA family and delivers twice as many 6.5Gbps GTX transceivers as the
Virtex-5 FXT FPGA platform to enable 40G and 100G system in networking,
telecom, audio/video broadcast and medical imaging by providing a single-chip
solution for applications such as 100GbE MAC-to-Interlaken bridging.
About Xilinx
Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) is the worldwide leader of programmable logic
solutions. Additional information about Xilinx is available at
http://www.xilinx.com.
XILINX, the Xilinx Logo, Virtex, and other designated brands included
herein are trademarks of Xilinx in the United States and other countries. PCI
Express, PCIe, and PCI-SIG are trademarks of PCI-SIG and used with permission.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Editorial Contacts:
Bruce Feinberg
Xilinx WW Public Relations
(408) 879-4631
bruce.feinberg@xilinx.com
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SOURCE Xilinx, Inc.
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