DSP Solutions Using FPGAs

Virtex-DSP and Spartan-DSP Series

Within each product family Xilinx offers DSP-optimized sub-families that deliver the right balance of high-performance logic, serial connectivity and signal processing capabilities as part of the XtremeDSP™ DSP platform portfolio.

Virtex®-6 SXT and the Spartan®-6 LXT devices are the two newest offerings in the XtremeDSP platform portfolio.

Virtex-6 SXT Devices – Industry-leading Performance and Connectivity

• Virtex-6 Product Table

The new XtremeDSP DSP48E1 slice in our flagship Virtex-6 SXT series facilitates faster and more optimized DSP functions. Virtex-6 SXT devices deliver the highest performance for performance-centric or multi-channel solutions.

The Virtex-6 SXT platform meets the ultra-high digital signal processing (DSP) bandwidth and lower system-cost requirements of next-generation wireless, military/aerospace and multi-media video applications:

• Delivers over 1 TeraMACs at 550 MHz with up to 2016 user-configurable XtremeDSP DSP48E1 slices
• Cuts power consumption by 65% using innovative, efficient power management
• Achieves over 1Tbps bandwidth for flexible, high-speed system interfacing
• Implements highly parallel architectures for astounding DSP performance with the lowest cost and power per channel for complex systems
• Incorporates up to 38 Mbytes block RAM and 8 Mbytes distributed RAM for the highest memory-to-logic ratio for efficient memory-intensive functions required in video processing and medical imaging
• Includes low-power RocketIO™ GTP transceivers (150 mW typical @ 6.5 Gbps), built-in PCI Express® endpoints and Ethernet MAC blocks
• Supports all major serial I/O protocols (PCIe®, CPRI, OBSAI, SRIO, GbE, and XAUI) to provide the lowest power solutions for building high-speed, high-bandwidth connections between chips, boards, and boxes

Spartan-6 LXT Devices – Breakthrough Price/Performance

• Spartan-6 Product Table

The Spartan-6 LXT family is optimized for low-cost DSP and memory with high-speed serial connectivity.  Building on the successful Spartan-3A DSP device architecture the Spartan-6 LXT not only provide greater DSP processing bandwidth and lower power but now includes up to eight dedicated high-speed serial transceivers, a PCI Express Endpoint block and up to four memory controller blocks.

This device targets a wide range of price and power sensitive high-volume applications wireless digital front-end (DFE) and baseband solutions in a single-channel pico-cell wireless base station, military mobile software-defined radios (SDRs), ultrasound systems, automotive driver assistance/media systems, video analytics and Smart IP cameras:

Delivers over 45 GMAC/s (30 billion multiply accumulate operations per second) with the new XtremeDSP DSP48A1slice.  Offers volume pricing starting at under $30

Provides up to:

• 5 Mbytes of dedicated block RAM
• 147456 logic cells
• 1.3 Mbytes of distributed RAM
• 396 I/O pins
• Available in size-reducing packaging
• Offers DeviceDNA for security
• Uses newly developed hibernate/suspend power-management features

Virtex-5 SXT Devices – Industry-leading Performance and Connectivity

• Virtex-5 Product Table

The new XtremeDSP DSP48E slice in our flagship Virtex-5 SXT series facilitates faster and more optimized DSP functions. Virtex-5 SXT devices deliver the highest performance for performance-centric or multi-channel solutions. The Virtex-5 SXT platform meets the ultra-high digital signal processing (DSP) bandwidth and lower system-cost requirements of next-generation wireless, military/aerospace and multi-media video applications:

• Delivers over 500 GMACs at 550 MHz with up to 1000 user-configurable XtremeDSP DSP48E slices
• Consumes 35 percent less dynamic power as compared to previous 90-nm devices
• Offers serial connectivity with low-power transceivers that operate up to 3.2 Gbps — an industry first!
• Boosts logic performance with 65-nm ExpressFabric™ technology comprised of up to 95K logic cells
• Implements highly parallel architectures for astounding DSP performance with the lowest cost and power per channel for complex systems
• Incorporates up to 11.6 Mbits of embedded block RAM and distributed RAM for the highest memory-to-logic ratio for efficient memory-intensive functions required in video processing and medical imaging
• Includes low-power RocketIO™ GTP transceivers (<100 mW typical @ 3.2 Gbps), built-in PCI Express endpoints and Ethernet MAC blocks
• Supports all major serial I/O protocols (PCIe, CPRI, OBSAI, SRIO, GbE, and XAUI) to provide the lowest power solutions for building high-speed, high-bandwidth connections between chips, boards, and boxes

Spartan-3A DSP Devices – Breakthrough Price/Performance

• Spartan-3A DSP Product Table

The Spartan-3A DSP device efficiently balances three critical values — price, performance, and power consumption — for a host of applications.
It targets price and power-sensitive applications such as digital front-end (DFE) and baseband solutions in a single-channel pico-cell wireless base station, military mobile software-defined radios (SDRs), ultrasound systems, driver assistance/media systems, HD video and Smart IP cameras:

Delivers over 30 GMAC/s (30 billion multiply accumulate operations per second) with the new XtremeDSP DSP48A sliceOffers volume pricing starting at under $301

Provides up to:

• 2,200 Gbps memory bandwidth
• 53,172 logic cells
• 2,268 Kb of block RAM
• 373 Kb of distributed RAM
• 519 I/O pins
• Available in size-reducing packaging
• Offers DeviceDNA for security
• Uses newly developed hibernate/suspend power-management features

Note

125K units/yr in late 2008.