Connectivity

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Xilinx provides end to end connectivity solutions supporting serial and parallel protocols. Design for success with Virtex and Spartan series FPGAs, IP cores, tools and development kits.

Protocols

PCI Express, PCI-X, PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus standards are widely used for personal computers, industrial computers, communication switches, routers, and instrumentation. Choose from our solutions for PCI Express®, PCI-X™, or PCI™ technologies.

Ethernet

Xilinx provides Ethernet solutions for all applications from 10/100 MAC, Gigabit Ethernet (1GbE) and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE).

XAUI

The 10 Gigabit Attachment Unit Interface is a 4 x 3.125 Gbps protocol connecting 10GbE ports. XAUI is most often used over the backplane to interconnect cards in a system chassis.

Serial RapidIO

The RapidIO architecture is a high-performance interconnect architecture designed for passing data and control information between microprocessors and DSPs in complex compute systems.

OC-48

Optical Carrier 48 (OC-48) with Generic Framing Procedure (GFP), used on SONET/SDH fiber optic networks, is one of the most pervasive standards used in the backbone of many regional ISPs .

SPI/SFI

The OIF System Packet Interface (SPI) and SerDes Framer Interface (SFI) provide the highest performance channelized packet interfaces commonly used in SONET/SDH and Ethernet applications.

Fibre-Channel

Fibre-Channel is a highly reliable multi-gigabit network and disk interconnect technology used in storage area networks in enterprise storage.

SATA

Serial ATA (SATA) is a new serial technology replacement for parallel ATA bus connecting to hard disk drives. Its superior performance and robustness make it the ideal choice for all new low cost hard disk connectivity applications in DAS, SAN and RAID.

CPRI and OBSAI

The Common Packet Radio Interface (CPRI) and Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI) are fast growing standards in the wireless market that define the way base stations communicate with radio equipment.

HD-SDI

The popular HD-SDI standards offer high-bandwidth transmission between various video applications in the headend, edit suite, or studio, and can represent a significant portion of the bill of materials, particularly when there is a need for multiple channels.

CAN

Controller Area Network (CAN) is a serial bus standard designed for the electromagnetically noisy environment of a car. It connects electronic control units (ECUs) and is used in embedded control applications where electromagnetic noise may be present.

MOST

Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) is a networking standard also designed for the automotive industry, but is used for interconnecting multimedia components in automobiles and other vehicles.

Aurora

Aurora is a scalable, lightweight, link-layer protocol for chip-to-chip communication championed by Xilinx.

Technology and Usage Models

Multi-gigabit Transceivers

Xilinx provides built-in RocketIO™ multi-gigabit transceivers for Virtex-5 LXT/SXT/FXT, Virtex-4 FX and Virtex-II Pro FPGAs and external PHY solutions for Spartan-3 FPGA families. With built-in pre-emphasis, receive equalization and programmable SerDes functions, these transceivers address the most stringent transmission line characteristics and common serial protocols.

Differential and Single-ended I/O

With support for 1.25Gbps differential I/O, 800MHz single-ended I/O and built-in active I/O termination, users can design for popular parallel standards.

Chip-to-Chip

Connect one chip to another reliably while keeping the protocol overhead low. Common applications include storage, server or networking systems where PCI Express is commonly used, or in base station controllers where Serial RapidIO™ is often used.

Backplane

Also known as board-to-board connectivity, backplanes present a challenging signal environment with long drive lengths and limits on the number of physical signals used to transport data.

Box-to-Box

To connect one system to another requires a robust protocol such as Gigabit Ethernet or OC-48.

Signal Integrity

High-speed serial connections become more popular as they benefit system scalability and total system cost. The serialization of interfaces increased the awareness of signal integrity (SI) as a system and PCB design concern in areas such as trace routing, board stack up and design guidelines.