Xilinx Inc. has three new development kits to further
extend the ability of digital signal processing developers to easily adopt
FPGAs in order to reach the highest levels of signal processing performance,
optimize for cost and power and relieve system bottlenecks through
co-processing. As Xilinx Targeted Design Platforms are made possible through
work with industry-leading distribution, design services, tools and hardware
partners, the new additions to the Xilinx DSP portfolio give developers the
hardware, tools and reference designs to ensure a productive design flow across
a diverse range of DSP applications.
Xilinx
Targeted Design Platforms for DSP can easily scale for adding new
capabilities, standards, features and support. Xilinx, customers, partners or
other third parties can easily deliver enhanced capabilities to an existing
platform, which increases value for end users and reduces development and
investment schedules. The DSP Targeted Design Platforms address application
requirements across the performance spectrum, including specific focus on peak
performance, price-optimized performance and co-processing acceleration.
The new DSP development kits include a new high-performance
Virtex-6 FPGA DSP kit with integrated A dc/D ac capability, an enhanced
low-cost Spartan-6 FPGA DSP Kit and a Spartan-6 FPGA Co-Processing DSP kit. All
three kits have integrated AMBA 4 AXI 4 interconnect and IP support.
Virtex-6 FPGA DSP
Development Kit with integrated High Speed Data Converters
The new Virtex-6
FPGA DSP Development Kit targets peak signal processing performance
applications and features Texas Instruments' Analog-to-Digital Converters (A
dc) and Digital-to-Analog Converters (D ac) on an FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card)
designed by 4DSP that enables customers to tune performance in both the analog
and digital domains. The kit includes a targeted reference design that allows
for full configuration and control of the A dc/D ac from the Virtex-6 FPGA,
enabling users to optimize for signal-to-noise ratio loss points, as well as
quantization, analog filtering and gain. The kit features AXI4 support to
enable easy integration of Xilinx and third party IP with a high performance
point-to-point interconnect optimized to reduce resource utilization with no
impact on performance. The integration of A dc/D ac technology with Virtex-6
devices can save weeks or months of development time.
This DSP platform has broad applications in a wide variety
of markets including aerospace and defense, medical technology, high
performance computing, and next generation wireless communications.
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Spartan-6 FPGA DSP
Development Kit
For customers looking to add DSP to existing systems while
optimizing performance at the best possible cost and power consumption, the
Spartan-6 FPGA DSP Development kit
is an excellent entry level platform with added AXI4 support through the latest
version of the Xilinx ISE Design Suite. The kit's baseboard includes a
Spartan-6 LX150T device capable of delivering price optimized DSP performance
and integrated transceivers for high speed system connectivity. In addition to
a number of design tutorials, a Digital Up and Digital Down Conversion targeted
reference design is supplied that can be used as-is out of the box or modified
and extended within a familiar design environment of either RTL, (Model-Based
Design with MATLAB and Simulink) or high-level "C" synthesis to
accelerate development.
Spartan-6 FPGA
Co-Processing DSP Kit
Xilinx and Avnet Electronics Marketing have developed a
co-processing platform that enables software designers to reduce or eliminate
application bottlenecks using the Spartan-6 FPGA to achieve system accelerations.
The
Spartan-6 FPGA Co-Processing
DSP Kit optimizes the key strengths of high performance FPGAs, system
control processing and digital signal processing in one integrated platform.
The Spartan-6 FPGA is ideal for off-loading or
"Co-processing" ultra high performance digital signal processing or
providing flexible peripheral expansion options. The kit includes an AXI4
Co-Processing reference design to illustrate these performance boosting capabilities.
Designers can get started quickly using familiar design environments included
with the kit.
Pricing and
Availability
The
Virtex-6 FPGA DSP kit, which includes the ML605
development board, Xilinx ISE System Edition, AXI4 DSP IP, Virtex-6 FPGA
targeted reference design, and Texas Instruments ADC/DAC technology on an FMC
daughter card from 4DSP and is available for $3,995.
The
Spartan-6 FPGA DSP kit includes the Avnet Electronics
Marketing LX150T development board, Xilinx ISE System Edition, AXI4 DSP IP, a
Spartan-6 FPGA targeted reference design and is available today for $1,995. The
Spartan-6 FPGA Co-Processing kit is available for $1,695.
All DSP kit targeted reference designs are delivered in RTL,
Simulink /System Generator formats to support user choice and to improve
ease-of-use and productivity. Additionally, tutorials are available for
customers looking to design using C/C++ using the AutoESL High level synthesis
environment. Both MathWorks and AutoESL provide development tools for
evaluation via their websites. Click
here for more information about the
Xilinx Targeted
Design Platforms for DSP.
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