Nu Horizons is now stocking the Virtex-6 family of FPGAs from Xilinx.

Virtex 6 FPGAs will lie at the heart of what Xilinx is calling targeted design platforms which will also incorporate new IP from Xilinx and third parties. Applications being targetted include automotive, consumer and wired/wireless communications to aerospace and defence.

Using 40nm, the FPGAs use voltage scaling to cut power consumption by up to 50% compared with previous generations, according to the company.

With up to 760K logic density and more than 38Mbit of BlockRAM and 2,000 DSP slices, the FPGAs have been designed to offer a range of performance levels.

There are three versions - Virtex-6 LXT FPGAs are optimised for applications that requir e high-performance logic, DSP, and serial connectivity with low-power GTX 6.5Gbit/s serial transceivers.

Virtex-6 SXT FPGAs are optimised for applications that require performance DSP and serial connectivit y with low-power GTX 6.5Gbit/s serial transceivers.

Virtex-6 HXT FPGAs are optimised for communications applications that require the highest-speed serial connectivity with up to 64 GTH serial transceivers supporting up to 11.2Gbit/s.