Overview

A few years ago, the term "home networking" seemed like something only rich people could afford, but today home networking is more affordable than ever. Home networking is still considered to be an emerging market where technology standards are constantly changing. In addition to changing standards, you also have to deal with advances in next generation information appliances, which offer new features and functionality to improve the home networking experience.

Xilinx Solutions for Home Networking/Consumer - Solving Design Challenges

The difficulty is keeping up with all these changes, ensuring that your next product stays ahead of the competition. Programmable logic (FPGAs and CPLDs) is a key component in enabling designers in this industry to accelerate product design and development. More importantly, even when changes in standards or functionality occur after your product has been introduced into the market, the reprogrammability feature of Xilinx FPGAs and CPLDs allow you to make changes even after the product has shipped.

Spartan series family of FPGAs are a key component of many home networking products in the market today, from set-top boxes and cable modems to wireless LAN cards and HDTVs. With the introduction of high-performance, lowest cost Spartan-3 FPGAs, you can now design programmable logic into even more home networking products such as DVD-RW players, LCD TVs, home multimedia servers, residential gateways and more. Click on the below table to see how Xilinx can enable your next home networking design.

To learn more about how Spartan-3 can solve the above design challenges, click on the following presentation .

System Block Diagrams

To see how Xilinx is used in home networking applications, click here.