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XtremeDSP Technology Solutions

Xilinx is the #1 supplier of FPGAs used in DSP and video applications. The Xilinx XtremeDSP™ solution includes a complete set of DSP optimized FPGAs, design tools, IP and development platforms for aerospace and defense, wireless infrastructure, broadcast, video, and imaging industries.

  • High-performance configurable FPGAs for DSP designs

Xilinx FPGAs offer up to 2016 XtremeDSP slices that can deliver over 900+ GMACS of DSP processing bandwidth. 38 MBytes of dedicated internal RAM are available to insure maximum processing bandwidth for even the most demanding DSP applications. Up to 38 high-speed transceivers, two PCI Express® blocks and four 10/100/1000 Ethernet MAC blocks are available to get data on and off the device without requiring additional FPGA resources. Xilinx offers the perfect single-chip or co-processing hardware solution for high performance DSP applications.

  • Development boards and Intellectual Property (IP)
  • Design and development tools for varied approaches to DSP
  • Complementary programmable logic and embedded processing functions
  • Strategic industry and university partnerships for training and support

Design your DSP application with XtremeDSP solutions:

Development Boards and Starter Kits

Xilinx DSP development boards and starter kits provide the fastest path to implementing your systems or algorithms onto FPGAs.

XtremeDSP Video Starter Kit - Spartan-3A DSP Edition
The ideal hardware platform to evaluate Xilinx FPGA(s) in a wide range of Video and Imaging applications.

XtremeDSP Starter Kit - Spartan-3A DSP 1800A Edition
Rapidly accelerate the development of your next DSP application with this comprehensive development kit.

XtremeDSP Starter Platform — Spartan-3A DSP 1800A Edition
Evaluate your DSP applications using the versatile XtremeDSP Starter Platform powered by the Spartan-3A DSP 1800A FPGA.

XtremeDSP Development Board — Spartan-3A DSP 3400A Edition
The perfect platform for Spartan-3A DSP design development complemented by a robust feature set that includes versatile and flexible expansion capabilities.

Virtex-5 SXT XtremeDSP Development Kit
A comprehensive development kit rapidly accelerates the development of your next DSP application.

Virtex-5 SXT ML506 XtremeDSP Development Platform
Though economically priced, the ML506 is a feature-rich DSP and high speed serial development platform utilizing the Virtex-5 DSP48E slices and RocketIO™ GTP transceivers.

Avnet Sparten-3A DSP DaVinci Development Kit
The Avnet Spartan-3A DSP DaVinci Development Kit provides a complete engineering platform for evaluating and integrating the Xilinx Spartan 3A-DSP FPGA and TI digital media processor based on DaVinci technology.

DSP Support and Resources

While our partners offer third party development boards, we also offer an extensive DSP resource catalog, consisting of application notes, articles, training, and support services.

XtremeDSP Device Portfolio

The XtremeDSP platform portfolio, comprised of two families – Virtex DSP and Spartan DSP, provides the range of price, performance, power efficiency, bandwidth, and I/O to satisfy a broad spectrum of application requirements within the communications, MVI (multimedia, video, and imaging), and defense industries.

Intellectual Property (IP) Cores

Xilinx includes many DSP cores with the latest version of ISE software; others may be purchased separately.

Table 1: Intellectual Property for DSP designs
Free with ISE Software Available for Purchase
Filters Error Correction*
Building Blocks Image Processing Pipeline
Transforms Video Scalar
Correlators  
Trig Functions  
Modulation/Demodulation  
Compression  

Reference Designs

Xilinx offers many DSP reference designs in target market segments. These designs are free of charge and supported through our development tools.

Development Tools

Xilinx offers a diverse array of development processes and tools that support designers with varying expertise.

  • System Generator for DSP allows you to define and verify complete DSP systems using industry standard tools from The MathWorks.
  • Xilinx ISE Design Suite provides the industry’s most complete programmable logic design environment with user specific editions supporting logic, DSP, embedded, and system design methodologies.
  • ModelSim XE-III provides a complete HDL simulation environment.
  • ChipScope™ Pro tool enables on-chip verification at or near operating system speed.

* Ideal for creating highly-flexible, concatenated codecs to support the communications market.
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