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News Release from: Vmetro
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 November 2006
Vmetro commits to latest Xilinx FPGAs
Vmetro today announced that it will augment its VXS, XMC and PMC based board level product lines to include platforms based on the new Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT FPGA platform.
Vmetro today announced that it will augment its VXS, XMC and PMC based board level product lines to include platforms based on the new Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT FPGA platform As a member of the Xilinx early access programme, Vmetro is developing a broad range of board level products that leverage the high-speed serial capabilities of the Virtex-5 LXT FPGAs to support applications such as electro-optics (EO), electronic warfare (EW), signal intelligence (Sigint) and telecommunications for high performance embedded computing and aerospace/defence markets
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 13 Jul 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The second of four domain-optimised platforms in the new Virtex-5 family, the 65nm Virtex-5 LXT platform is the first FPGA to deliver a hard-coded PCI Express Endpoint and Tri-mode Ethernet Media Access Controller (MAC) blocks.
The Virtex-5 LXT platform offers multichannel multi-gigabit per-second serial communications (up to 3.2Gbit/s per channel) which allows for increased system flexibility, bandwidth and scalability - critical benefits to Vmetro customers building next-generation FPGA-based solutions.
"Vmetro's proven track record of developing effective Xilinx based FPGA solutions has allowed us early access to the low power serial I/O and built-in PCI Express advantages of Virtex-5 LXT FPGAs that will help deliver the next generation of our PMC, VXS and XMC product lines", said Dave Barker, Vice President of Business Development at Vmetro.
"The addition of low power, built-in serial communications makes the development of sophisticated solutions easier and more powerful".
"Xilinx being first to market with these capabilities helps us deliver our next generation products to meet our customer expectations".
"We are excited by these developments and believe our customers will be too".
The Vmetro's first Virtex-5 LXT based product will be available in early 2007. Request free introductory details about products from Vmetro ...
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