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So Many Gates So Few Dollars The hard work is done! Now ASIC and FPGA designers can prototype logic designs for a fraction of the cost of existing solutions. Here are 6+ million gates (measured the ASIC way) on an easy to use, stand-alone, USB2.0-hosted board (a PCI/PCI- X interface is coming soon). The DN6000k10 supports up to 9, 2vp100 VirtexII-Pro FPGA’s, with an incredible amount of FPGA to FPGA interconnect for easy logic partitioning. FPGA’s are interconnected with rocket I/O’s, enabling the movement of data between them at 100’s of GB/s. In addition to 6M+ gates, the DN6000k10 also packs on-board: • 2 PowerPC cores per FPGA (400MHz) • Up to 8MB embedded RAM, 444, 18x18 multipliers — per FPGA • 12 external 133MHz 32M x 16 DDR SDRAM’s, 5 4Mx16 FLASH • 480+ connections for daughter card and logic analyzer interfaces Configuration is fast, easy, and robust using a SmartMedia-based FLASH card or, via the USB interface. Every tool, utility, driver, and support application that The Dini Group could imagine you might need is included. Please contact us for complete specifications, we are eager to show you how our hard work can make your job easier. 1010 Pearl Street, Suite 6 • La Jolla, CA 92037 • (858) 454-3419 • Email: sales@dinigroup.com
Virtex-4: Breakthrough Performance at the Lowest Cost Virtex-4 FPGAs deliver what you’ve been looking for. by Greg Lara Product Marketing Manager – Virtex Solutions Xilinx, Inc. greg.lara@xilinx.com As Xilinx ® began to define the capabilities of the fourth-generation of Virtex devices, we set out to address the performance, functionality, and cost requirements of next-generation electronic systems, and to increase our customers’ productivity by easing system design challenges. We interviewed more than 800 customers, including system architects and experts in logic design, embedded processing, high-performance DSP, and high-speed connectivity. Despite the differences in their end products, these high-end FPGA users had a number of common key requirements. They asked for higher system performance to meet the demands of their leading-edge products; lower power consumption to meet stringent power budgets driven by system cost and reliability requirements; help in reducing system cost to enable them to thrive in a competitive marketplace; and solutions to simplify complex design challenges, such as building source-synchronous interfaces to the latest high-speed memories and advanced components. We achieved these goals by enhancing the features proven popular in earlier Virtex devices and developing new capabilities never before available in FPGAs. Combining advanced processing technology with greater integrated functionality, Virtex- 4 FPGAs provide 2x more density, and boost performance as much as 2x, while reducing power consumption by as much as 50% compared with previous-generation FPGAs (see sidebar, “Features at a Glance”). At the same time, Virtex-4 FPGAs cut the cost of programmable system platforms by more than 50%, enabling developers to adopt high-performance FPGAs in an extraordinary range of products. Higher Performance Viretx-4 FPGAs attack the requirements for higher performance on several fronts. First, designers can improve system performance, thanks to the advanced 90 nm process and optimized FPGA fabric. Winter 2004 Xcell Journal 33
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