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Will it be April 3 2008, Beijing - global the intersection of programmable logic and solution lead the intersection of manufacturer and match clever to think Company (Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) )Claim to put out Virtex® today; -5 FXT (Fig. 1) Device. These FPGA devices have taken the lead in integrating embedded PowerPC® in the industry; 440 processor module, RocketIO&trade at a high speed; GTX transceiver and specialized XtremeDSP™ Handling capacity. As 65nm Virtex-5 fourth platform of series, Virtex-5 FXT has offered the extremely high characteristic, it can help the designer to reduce the system cost, narrow the board size and reduce the number of elements. Company and industry lead logic, embedded that manufacturer offer and in the the intersection of DSP and developing instrument and IP under the nuclear support in have a match clever to think, Virtex-5 FXT FPGA is the wired and wireless communication, audio frequency / the intersection of video and broadcast equipment, military affairs, Aero-Space, the intersection of industry and system and employ, offer one ultimate the intersection of system integration and platform while being numerous while being other.
Fig. 1 Virtex® -5 FXT

" Integrate and handle characteristic and SERDES component on the device of the one piece importantly, can offer huge value for the fact that those need to save board-level space and cost, designer needing to meet the high performance requirement again at the same time. " Creator, president and concurrently analyst Will Strauss of the company Forward Concepts of the market research say, " For example, in the wireless application, the base station type that Virtex-5 FXT platform technology can be supported is highly paid close attention to, support the intersection of 4G and LTE of communication system especially ' Evolve for a long time) Application of the base band. "

Issue of today, mean, make up, have a match clever to think four the intersection of FPGA and platform that field optimize of series, Virtex-5 of company, put out all already. Virtex-5 gives full play to 65nm processing property, density and dominant FPGA series products of cost first, have offered unparalleled characteristic and density leading advantage. Compare with one generation of the first 90nm FPGA, the speed is improved by 30% on average, the logic capacity increases by 65%. While making this breakthrough characteristic and promoting, have a match clever to think company succeed in, reduce dynamic power consumption also, have reduced by 35% compared with the first a generation of devices. Four face the platform LX, LXT, SXT and FXT that the field optimized, has offered many kinds of device choices in extensive range, support engineers to realize electronic system design for more high cost-effective, and have combined FPGA device of best resource according to one's own particular design alternative. Separately to the intersection of logic and intensive, embedded to deal with, digital signal processing (DSP) four platform these And connect and employ logic, I/O and hard IP module resource association that has been offered and optimized serially.

The most high embedded puocessing module of the characteristic

Virtex-5 FXT platform of innovation is the first FPGA products that offered up to two pieces of industry canonial PowerPC 440 processor module of industry. Each processor integrated 32KB order and 32KB data are buffered, can offer the characteristic up to 1,100 DMIPS under 550 MHz clock rate. One that is with PowerPC440 module tight coupling is that the new integrated 5x2 vertical-horizontal switched-mode exchanges the processor to interconnect and build up, support concurrent I/O and memory reference. This is Integrated innovation highly it if you can't interconnect, build up and last processor bus interfaces somes Master/Slaves dedicated, support to send independently /four DMA port, receive aisle, and one supports high performance, low and delays the specialized memory bus interface of the point-to-point connection.

Utilize PowerPC 440 embedded processor module, it is extendible and embedded that the designer can realize quickly and easily that advanced to deal with application. The advanced PLB framework supports 128 interface of high throughput, can minimize systematic bottleneck, thus exchange the data transmitting capacity between structure and soft IP logic of the processor, vertical-horizontal switched-mode to maximize. Meanwhile, in data processing and floating point arithmetic of video processing, 3D,etc. are employed, enhanced high performance assists the processor control unit (APU) Still offer extra connection ability for the orders of engines or user's special definitions of specialized coprocessor.

With EDK 10.1 issue of edition, PowerPC440 module in Virtex-5 FXT can be got and included the wind river system company (Wind River Systems) , Green Hills software company and supplier's support in the inner industry standard operating system of other main embedded operating systems. Support it last Linux MontaVista moderate breeze river system Company,shortly after be too can last the ranks that be supported for some other companied. In addition, are comparable to fairy and think in the company and support the open source code Linux community actively.

Advanced connection ability serially
In order to meet the demand for the higher I/O bandwidth increasing constantly, Virtex-5 FXT platform integrated high performance, RocketIO GTX transceiver of low power consumption, can support the message transmission rate of 500 Mbps to 6.5Gbps. The customer can design and support XAUI, Fibre Channel, SONET, Serial RapidIO, PCI Express® 1.1 And canonial various application such as 2.0, Interlaken. Every passway is consumed less than the typical power of 200mW under the speed in 6.5Gbps of GTX transceiver, also integrated a lot of advanced characteristics at the same time, if send pre-emphasis, compensate in linear equilibrium, integrate, take a percentage 4 times DFE receive balancedly also, can raise the signal completeness at the time of the speed of high speed wire. The new transceiver module also includes a unique sublayer of physical code of polygram, can support 64B/66B and 64B/67B code / decode the scheme, it can be that each passway save thousands of logical units. In addition cross platform the intersection of pin and compatibility make customer can transplant to Virtex-5 LXT and the intersection of SXT and design of device to Virtex-5 FXT device, thus can fully utilize it to handle characteristic and serial connection function more high and embeddedly.

Signal handling capacity of innovation
Virtex-5 FXT platform includes up to 384 DSP logic slice and 16.5 MB internal storage, lay configurated offer over 190 GMACs DSP handle characteristic and 92 bit / second (tera-bits/sec) too in the intersection of 500 MHz and clock rate Memorizer bandwidth. Equilibrium of hardware resource can enable, calculate intensive application ' It is DSP that more typical and the video is employed) Characteristic maximize. XtremeDSP™ Virtex® -DSP48E logic one all offered in 5 devices is supported than the first a generation of Virtex device more high DSP integrated level and lower power consumption. The new platform still supports the work pattern of 40 multi-type dynamic control, comprising: Multiplier, multiplication accumulator, multiplication - addition / subtracter, inputting adders, barrel-shaped shifters, wide location counters and comparators three times.

" Need in order to meet pronunciation, video, transmissive bandwidth of the data and market, systematic solution must incorporate flexibility, extremely high-performance embedded handling capacity, digital signal processing function and connection function into an organic whole on slice nowadays. " It is thought of the advanced executive vice president Steve Douglass responsible for product development of product division of the company and said that comparable to fairy, " Virtex-5 FXT platform combined the high-performance logic sum DSP handling capacity of series Virtex-5 and had industrywide standard PowerPC 440 of high-performance handling capacity Paying attention to device module, and can realize the high-speed transceiver that the data handle up more fast. "

Design and support
Comparable to fairy and think of ISE® that the company released newly; Design Suite 10.1 developing instrument offers overall support for Virtex-5 FXT FPGA platform. This develops all domain specific purpose tools of kit integration wholly, can raise logic, embedded and DSP applied integrated system design efficiency by a wide margin. These specific purpose tools that ISE Design Suite 10.1 offers include ISE® Foundation™ , embedded development kit (EDK) , System Generator for DSP, AccelDSP™ Synthesis tool, ChipScope™ Pro and ChipScope Pro Serial I/O kit, PlanAhead™ Design, analysis tool and ISE simulator.