USA: Xilinx Inc. announced the availability of Virtex-5 FXT devices, the industry's first FPGAs with embedded PowerPC 440 processor blocks, high-speed RocketIO GTX transceivers and dedicated XtremeDSP processing capabilities. Comprising the fourth platform in the 65nm Virtex-5 family, Virtex-5 FXT devices deliver high performance while enabling designers to reduce system costs, board space and component count.

With support from Xilinx and industry-leading providers of logic, embedded and DSP development tools, and IP cores, Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs deliver the ultimate system integration platform for applications in: wired and wireless communications, audio/video broadcast equipment, military, aerospace, industrial systems, and many others.

With this announcement, Xilinx has completed the introduction of the four domain-optimized Virtex-5 FPGA platforms that comprise the Virtex-5 family. The Virtex-5 family – the first FPGA family to deliver performance, density, and cost benefits of 65nm – offers unprecedented performance and density gains with speeds on average 30 percent faster and a logic capacity 65 percent greater than previous 90nm generation FPGAs.

Xilinx achieved this breakthrough performance while at the same time reducing dynamic power consumption by 35 percent relative to the previous generation devices. The four domain-optimized platforms – LX, LXT, SXT, and FXT – offer a wide range of devices that enable engineers to cost-effectively implement electronics systems by selecting an FPGA that incorporates the optimal mix of resources for their particular design: logic, I/O, and hardened IP blocks for logic-intensive, embedded processing, digital signal processing (DSP), and serial connectivity applications.