Mentor Graphics has announced the availability of the HyperLynx GHz RocketIO Design Kit for the Virtex-II Pro family of Platform FPGAs from Xilinx. The design kit allows hardware design, layout and signal integrity (SI) engineers to simulate and implement Virtex-II Pro RocketIO multigigabit transceivers (MGTs) in their PCB designs through the well-known and easy-to-use HyperLynx interface. By making it easy to evaluate Virtex-II Pro serial interconnects and guiding users through the process, the company says that the design kit ensures system design companies reach their time-to-market goals.
The RocketIO Design Kit for the HyperLynx tool includes all of the qualified example circuits, connector and transmission line trace models required to simulate MGTs when incorporating Virtex-II Pro FPGAs into a PCB design. By eliminating the need for SPICE expertise, the design kit allows the HyperLynx GHz tool users to easily perform SI analysis on boards using a wide range of interconnects, from traditional parallel interconnects, to state-of-the-art multi-gigabit serial interconnects, and into the future of 10 gigabit I/O. It also allows for the investigation of a large design space in a short period of time, featuring 'what if' analysis on a wide variety of transmitter and receiver configurations.
The RocketIO Design Kit for the HyperLynx tool is already being used by a number of application engineers at Xilinx with excellent results. "Having the design kit for the HyperLynx GHz tool offers our customers an affordable and easy-to-use solution for our Virtex-II Pro FPGAs, further complementing Xilinx's vision to provide a complete serial design infrastructure as outlined in the Serial Tsunami initiative," said Andy DeBaets, senior director, systems and application engineering, Xilinx. "The design kit has been pre-tested and verified in the HyperLynx environment, allowing our joint customers to gain instant productivity advantages and increase their confidence for first time serial design success."
The RocketIO Design Kit for the HyperLynx tool is available immediately at no cost through the High-Speed Resource Center on the Mentor Graphics Web site ( www.mentor.com/highspeed/resource/</a>).
For more information contact Kobus van Rooyen, Asic Design Services, 011 315 8316, [email protected].
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