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Xilinx GbE kit for Virtex-5 FPGAs improves TTM

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SAN JOSE, USA: Xilinx Inc. has announced the availability of the Virtex-5 FPGA Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) development Kit based on its latest 65nm Virtex-5 FPGAs.

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Ideal for improving time-to-market of applications with Ethernet in communications, networking, industrial, scientific, medical, storage, computing, aerospace and defense markets, the kit provides designers with a complete solution, including a development board as well as protocol packs.

The Virtex-5 FPGA GbE development kit enables designers to take advantage of pre-verified connectivity solutions and complete their design with confidence. The Virtex-5 LXT and SXT platform FPGAs include four built-in tri-mode (10/100/1000Mbps) Ethernet MACs and provide a fully integrated solution that has passed the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) tests. Including integrated low-power RocketIO GTP transceiver, the Virtex-5 LXT and SXT families support MAC+PHY in the FPGA with the Ethernet SGMII interface and a myriad of other interfaces. Xilinx also provides a path to 10Gigabit per second Ethernet using XAUI interface.

The Virtex-5 FPGA GbE development kit is part of Xilinx's solution initiative that is designed to allow engineers to quickly get designs up and running right out-of-the-box. It follows the PCI Express development kit that debuted earlier this year. The Virtex-5 FPGA GbE development kit includes all components that engineers need to develop a Virtex-5 FPGA-based Ethernet design, including Virtex-5 development board (ML505) with XC5VLX50T device, RJ45 and SFP connectors, quickstart guide, resource CD, reference designs, and links to protocol pack for Ethernet, protocol-specific physical layer characterization reports, IP cores, interoperability data, and technical documentation.

Anil Telikepalli, senior manager of Platform Solutions Marketing at Xilinx, said: "The flexibility and programmability of FPGAs, with integrated tri-mode Ethernet hard blocks and transceivers provide scalable Ethernet connectivity on the chip. The complete Xilinx gigabit Ethernet solution and development kit will enable thousands of designers to adopt Gigabit Ethernet easily and allow them to focus on their value-add design.

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