The perfect platform for smarter FPGAs
4 July 2001
Programmable Logic
Xilinx's Virtex-II family is the first embodiment of the company's innovative platform FPGA strategy. Virtex-II offers designers a programmable platform that addresses the challenges of signal integrity, system timing, EMI and design security.
Combining XtremeDSP performance (up to 100 times faster than leading DSPs), support for the latest I/O standards and unprecedented memory capabilities, Xilinx claims its Virtex-II represents a genuine alternative to ASICs.
The new family also features Xilinx's IP Immersion technology, facilitating easier integration of both soft and hard IP cores, and is empowered by an array of advanced design tools. The increasing bandwidth requirements of modern system designs raise demanding signal integrity issues. Virtex-II uses the XCITE signal technology to resolve these, simplifying board design and maximising performance. System clocking challenges are met via 16 pre-engineered low skew clock networks and up to 12 digital clock managers. EMI control is implemented
through innovative spread spectrum clocking and system security is provided via bitstream encryption.
Extensive software support and an IP core library is already available from Xilinx, and Avnet Design Services is due to release a Virtex-II top board to accompany its existing evaluation board soon.
Avnet Kopp
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