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Xilinx unveils development kits

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BANGALORE: Xilinx Inc., today announced the availability of three new development kits that 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.

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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, said a press release.

“We recognize that the market demands for DSP requirements and design approaches are broad and have thus worked with industry leaders Texas Instruments, Avnet Electronics Marketing, MathWorks, and 4DSP to provide complete development platforms that deliver design methodologies aligned to the way developers work,” said Tim Erjavec, senior director, Platform Solutions and Services Marketing at Xilinx.

He added that working together, they are delivering kits that provide developers with the ideal balance of FPGA, processor and DSP resources for a wide range of DSP applications in the areas of video, medical imaging, wireless, aerospace and defense and many other segments.

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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 ADC/DAC capability, an enhanced low-cost Spartan-6 FPGA DSP Kit and a Spartan-6 FPGA Co-Processing DSP kit. All three kits have integrated AMBA4 AXI4 interconnect and IP support.

The new Virtex-6 FPGA DSP Development Kit targets peak signal processing performance applications and features Texas Instruments’ Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC) and Digital-to-Analog Converters (DAC) 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 ADC/DAC 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 ADC/DAC 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, the release added.

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