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Xilinx has Virtex-5 FXT platform for PowerPC design
Xilinx’s latest development kit is aimed at the design of embedded processing systems based on PowerPC 440 and MicroBlaze processors.
Built around Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs, the platform also has the support of the company’s BlueCat Linux BSP, which means it can be used as a common software development platform for both MicroBlaze and PowerPC processors.
The FXT platform comes in five flavours ranging from 33,000 logic blocks to 197,000 logic blocks. Major applications will be wireless basestations and AV broadcasting.
The chips are being supplied by both of Xilinx's foundries, UMC and Toshiba.
The FXT platform has a couple of PowerPC 440 cores each providing 1,1000DMIPS at 550MHz, from 8 to 24 Gigabit transceivers supporting data rates from 500Mbits/sec to 6.5Gbits/sec, and from 64 to 384 DSP slices which can provide190 GMACs of DSP processing at 500MHz.
The kit incorporates a Virtex-5 FX70T FPGA development board, the ML507, Linux reference designs, a library of processing IP cores and a USB JTAG download/debug cable.
There is a pre-built Linux image and embedded processing reference design based on the PowerPC 440 processor, DDR2 memory interface and Gigabit Ethernet interface.
The ML507 board provides a range of I/O interfacing options including standard interfaces like Gigabit Ethernet, PCI Express as well as custom interfaces they can develop using the gigabit transceivers available on the Virtex-5 FXT device using SMA connectors.
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