Archive : 14 January 2010 год

Xilinx announced the first shipments and availability of its Virtex-6 LX760 device. The Virtex-6 LX760 device is ideal for application that requires intensive computational performance and high logic density. The Virtex-6 LX760 device has 1,200 SelectIO pins, 758.784 logic cells and 25,920Kbits Block RAM. LX760 device is optimized to tradeoff high-speed serial transceivers for higher I/O, logic, and embedded memory capacity.

 Built on UMC's 40nm process using third-generation Xilinx ASMBL architecture, the Virtex-6 FPGA family is supported by a new generation of development tools and a vast library of IP already available for the Virtex-5 FPGA family to ensure productive development and design migration. The devices operate on a 1.0v core voltage with an available 0.9v low-power option. The Virtex-6 FPGA family comprises three domain-optimized FPGA platforms that deliver different feature mixes to best address a variety of customer applications:

 
 * Virtex-6 LXT FPGAs - optimized for applications that require high-performance logic, DSP and serial connectivity with low-power GTX 6.5Gb/s serial transceivers
    * Virtex-6 SXT FPGAs - optimized for applications that require ultra high-performance DSP and serial connectivity with low-power GTX 6.5Gb/s serial transceivers
    * Virtex-6 HXT FPGAs - optimized for communications applications that require the highest-speed serial connectivity with up to 64 serial transceivers supporting up to 11.2Gb/s

Along with the 45nm Spartan-6 family, the Virtex-6 family makes up the silicon base of Xilinx Targeted Design Platforms that significantly shorten the time it takes to reach optimal levels of system performance, while ensuring low levels of power consumption, during system-on-chip (SoC) development using the ISE Design Suite; third-party synthesis, simulation, and signal integrity tools; reference designs; and IP.

Development kits supporting both families are available now. Initial Virtex-6 LX760 samples are shipping today and customers can start their designs immediately by downloading a free evaluation of the ISE Design Suite version 11.4.

Source: www.channel-e.biz