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Virtex-5 Family Overview
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DS100 (v5.0) February 6, 2009
Product Specification
General Description
The Virtex®-5 family provides the newest most powerful features in the FPGA market. Using the second generation ASMBL™ (Advanced Silicon Modular Block) column-based architecture, the Virtex-5 family contains five distinct platforms (sub-families), the most choice offered by any FPGA family. Each platform contains a different ratio of features to address the needs of a wide variety of advanced logic designs. In addition to the most advanced, high-performance logic fabric, Virtex-5 FPGAs contain many hard-IP system level blocks, including powerful 36-Kbit block RAM/FIFOs, second generation 25 x 18 DSP slices, SelectIO™ technology with built-in digitallycontrolled impedance, ChipSync™ source-synchronous interface blocks, system monitor functionality, enhanced clock management tiles with integrated DCM (Digital Clock Managers) and phase-locked-loop (PLL) clock generators, and advanced configuration options. Additional platform dependant features include power-optimized high-speed serial transceiver blocks for enhanced serial connectivity, PCI Express® compliant integrated Endpoint blocks, tri-mode Ethernet MACs (Media Access Controllers), and high-performance PowerPC® 440 microprocessor embedded blocks. These features allow advanced logic designers to build the highest levels of performance and functionality into their FPGA-based systems. Built on a 65-nm state-of-the-art copper process technology, Virtex-5 FPGAs are a programmable alternative to custom ASIC technology. Most advanced system designs require the programmable strength of FPGAs. Virtex-5 FPGAs offer the best solution for addressing the needs of high-performance logic designers, high-performance DSP designers, and high-performance embedded systems designers with unprecedented logic, DSP, hard/soft microprocessor, and connectivity capabilities. The Virtex-5 LXT, SXT, TXT, and FXT platforms include advanced high-speed serial connectivity and link/transaction layer capability.
Summary of Virtex-5 FPGA Features
• Five platforms LX, LXT, SXT, TXT, and FXT − Virtex-5 LX: High-performance general logic applications − Virtex-5 LXT: High-performance logic with advanced serial − − − • •
connectivity Virtex-5 SXT: High-performance signal processing applications with advanced serial connectivity Virtex-5 TXT: High-performance systems with double density advanced serial connectivity Virtex-5 FXT: High-performance embedded systems with advanced serial connectivity
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Advanced DSP48E slices − 25 x 18, two’s complement, multiplication − Optional adder, subtracter, and accumulator − Optional pipelining − Optional bitwise logical functionality − Dedicated cascade connections Flexible configuration options − SPI and Parallel FLASH interface − Multi-bitstream support with dedicated fallback − Auto bus width detection capability System Monitoring capability on all devices − On-chip/Off-chip therm.