News
	Date Posted:	07/01/2009
	Title:	Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT Devices Move Into Production as New Virtex-5 TXT FPGA Platform Becomes Available ( 1264)
	Summary	Backed by Extensive IP, Hardware Platforms, Tools and Software Support, Virtex-5 Family Continues Along its Path as Industry''''s Leading High-Performance FPGAs
	Main Text	Xilinx has announced the Virtex(R)-5 FXT FPGA platform with 6.5 Gbps RocketIO(TM) GTX transceivers and embedded PowerPC(R) 440 processor cores has begun shipping in production, while samples of its new transceiver-optimized Virtex-5 TXT FPGA platform are now available. As the industry^^s most widely adopted 65nm high- performance FPGAs, only the Virtex-5 family gives designers a proven programmable solution for high-speed serial and high-performance embedded designs. "The Virtex-5 SXT platform provides us with an unprecedented level of flexibility and scalability for processing and managing streaming data sources over a wide range of applications. The faster Multi-Gigabit Transceivers allow higher bandwidths between the FPGAs on our WILDSTAR 5 boards, and between the boards and the outside world, enabling a new class of solutions," said Jane Donaldson, president and CEO of Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. "Our CoreFire FPGA Application Development Tool provides almost effortless technology refresh, to allow the user to take advantage of the new and improved Virtex-5 FXT features. The PowerPC 440 processor block integrated with DSP, PCIe(R), EMAC and high-speed transceiver capabilities on a single platform, further enhances the capability of these new parts." Now shipping in production are the Virtex-5 FX30T, FX70T, and FX130T devices, with the remaining FX100T and FX200T devices available now as samples and scheduled to be in production by the end of the month. The new Virtex-5 TXT platform, built for use in next generation Ethernet bridging and other ultra high-bandwidth applications has also begun shipping with the Virtex-5 TX240T available as samples, and is on track to be in production by the end of first quarter, 2009. Finally, the Virtex-5 SX240T device, built to deliver up to 528 GMACs of multiply-and-accumulate performance and over 190 GFLOPS of single-precision, floating-point DSP performance, will also be shipping in production by the end of the month.