Virtex-5 adds PCI Express, 10-Gbit-Ethernet cores

摘要

Xilinx has released the second platform derivative of its Virtex-5 FGPA family targeting markets requiring serial connectivity. Xilinx this year also unveiled its top-of-the-line Virtex-5 FPGAs, the first FPGAs in the industry at the 65-nm node. The new devices feature a six-input-look-up-table architecture and some design and foundry tricks to keep power consumption on par with the company's 90-nm Virtex-4 FPGAs and still gain the usual performance and price-per-gate advantages of process reductions. When Xilinx announced the family, the company also released the LX base platform, which is a pure-logic, sea-of-gates FPGA. Now, the company is releasing derivative platforms of the Virtex-5 targeting specific markets.