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News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK | Subject: HyperLynx GHz RocketIO design kit
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 July 2003
Kit simplifies Xilinx multigigabit
simulation
New from Mentor Graphics is the HyperLynx GHz RocketIO design kit for the Virtex-II Pro family of Platform FPGAs from Xilinx.
New from Mentor Graphics is the HyperLynx GHz RocketIO design kit for the Virtex-II Pro family of Platform FPGAs from Xilinx The design kit allows hardware design, layout and signal integrity (SI) engineers to simulate and implement Xilinx Virtex-II Pro RocketIO multi-gigabit transceivers (MGTs) in their PCB designs through the well-known and easy-to-use HyperLynx interface
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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By making it easy to evaluate Virtex-II Pro serial interconnects and guiding users through the process, the RocketIO design kit for HyperLynx ensures system design companies reach their time-to-market goals "This new RocketIO design kit allows the HyperLynx tool users to access qualified Xilinx IC models from their preferred easy-to-use simulation and analysis environment when incorporating Xilinx Virtex-II Pro Platform FPGAs into their designs", said Joe Dalton, Director of Marketing, Systems Design Division, Mentor Graphics.
"For digital designers who may not be familiar with Spice, the design kit makes it simple to use Xilinx RocketIO MGT models".
The RocketIO design kit for the HyperLynx tool includes all of the qualified example circuits, connector and transmission line trace models required to simulate MGTs when incorporating Virtex-II Pro FPGAs into a PCB design.
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By eliminating the need for Spice expertise, the design kit allows the HyperLynx GHz tool users to easily perform SI analysis on boards using a wide range of interconnects, from traditional parallel interconnects, to state-of-the-art multigigabit serial interconnects, and into the future of 10Gbit/s I/O.
The design kit also allows for the investigation of a large design space in a short period of time, featuring "what if" analysis on a wide variety of transmitter and receiver configurations.
The RocketIO design kit for the HyperLynx tool is already being used by a number of application engineers at Xilinx with excellent results.
"Having the design kit for the HyperLynx GHz tool offers our customers an affordable and easy-to-use solution for our Virtex-II Pro FPGAs, further complementing Xilinx's vision to provide a complete serial design infrastructure as outlined in the Serial Tsunami initiative", said Andy DeBaets, Senior Director, Systems and Application Engineering, Xilinx.
"The design kit has been pretested and verified in the HyperLynx environment, allowing our joint customers to gain instant productivity advantages and increase their confidence for first time serial design success".
The RocketIO design kit for the HyperLynx tool is available immediately at no cost through the High-Speed Resource Centre on the Mentor Graphics website.
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