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News Release from: Nallatech | Subject: Virtex-4 XtremeDSP Development Kit
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 20 May 2005
Development kit targets DSP-rich FPGA
design
The Virtex-4 XtremeDSP Development Kit will enable designers to immediately leverage Xilinx' new DSP-rich Virtex-4 SX FPGAs in new advanced FPGA designs.
In the latest development in the company's strategic relationship with Xilinx, Nallatech has released the Virtex-4 XtremeDSP Development Kit, which will enable designers to immediately leverage Xilinx' new DSP-rich Virtex-4 SX FPGAs in new advanced FPGA designs The Virtex-4 XtremeDSP Development Kit is equipped with a SX35 Virtex-4 FPGA, which has 192 XtremeDSP slices, where each slice is capable of operating at 400MHz providing performance up to 77GMAC/s (using 18x18 multipliers)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The FPGA processing capability on the BenAdda-V4 is complemented by four high performance analogue interfaces consisting of two 14bit ADC channels capable of 105MSPS sampling per channel, plus two 14bit DACs with 160Msample/s sampling per channel.
The BenAdda-V4 also features 4Mbyte ZBT SRAM onboard for high-speed buffering and data storage.
The kit comes with a range of IP including memory controllers, BIST and examples designs, allowing rapid configuration of high-speed memory subsystems and design implementation.
Also included is Nallatech's Fuse system software which helps designers quickly control and configure the board via software.
The systems communication design tool Dimetalk, is also available, simplifying the migration of designs developed on the Virtex-4 SX35 XtremeDSP Development Kit to multiple FPGAs.
The new kit is supported by the Xilinx System Generator v7.1 software for DSP design tool, which enables designers to easily model and implement high performance DSP systems within an FPGA, using the Matlab/Simulink design environments and the extensive Xilinx DSP IP libraries.
The System Generator software also supports integration to the Microblaze soft processor cores and Chipscope Pro for system debug.
These features combined with the performance capabilities of the Virtex-4 SX FPGA makes it simple for a designer to harness the parallel processing performance of an FPGA.
Xilinx and Nallatech have a history of bringing to market comprehensive development kits for digital communications and signal processing applications.
The Virtex-4 SX35 platform builds on the success of the popular Virtex-II and Virtex-II Pro XtremeDSP development kits, which Xilinx has been shipping since 2002.
"Nallatech is a valued member of Xilinx Alliance Programme and has well-established credentials as a high-performance processing specialist able to extract the maximum performance from today's flexible and powerful FPGAs", said David Squires, Director of Marketing, DSP Division at Xilinx.
"Its engineers have very quickly created a solution that makes the power of Virtex-4 and XtremeDSP readily available to high-performance communication and surveillance applications requiring multichannel, high-throughput, memory intensive capabilities".
"Nallatech continues to lead the way in the development and delivery of FPGA technologies that will address today's most demanding high-performance computing needs and the integration of the Virtex-4 architecture is an important step in this on going effort", said Dr Malachy Devlin, Nallatech's Chief Technology Officer.
"The completion of the Virtex-4 XtremeDSP Development Kit begins the rollout of Nallatech's next generation of high-performance computing solutions that will feature the latest Xilinx technology".
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