Virtex-5 Multi-Platform FPGA

Start Designing with Virtex™-5 FPGAs Today!

Up to 330,000 logic cells for unmatched performance

Up to 1,200 I/O pins for high-bandwidth memory/network interfaces

Up to 24 low-power transceivers for high-speed serial interfaces

Built-in PowerPC® 440 blocks in Virtex-5 FXT platform!

It's as easy as 1, 2, 3:

1. Try free tools (evaluation versions):

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3. Order FPGAs:

Virtex-5 and Virtex-4 comparison
1.0V, 65nm triple-oxide process increases performance and lowers power consumption
ExpressFabric Architecture uses Real 6-input LUTs for fewer logic levels and ultra-fast diagonal routing for reduced net delays
More Flexible Clock Management Tile combines new PLL for precise clock phase control and jitter filtering with DCM for versatile clock synthesis
Enhanced 36 Kbit Block RAM with built-in FIFO logic and ECC for building larger arrays includes power-saving circuits switch off unused memory
1.25 Gbps SelectIO™ structures simplify high-bandwidth parallel interfaces with enhanced ChipSync™ technology
Low power 100 Mbps - 3.75 Gbps RocketIO™ GTP transceivers implement serial protocols
Highest performance 150 Mbps - 6.5 Gbps RocketIO™ GTX transceivers for serial protocols (FXT only)
Built-in PCI Express® Endpoint Block frees user logic resources and reduces power
PowerPC 440 processor block to integrate embedded processing systems (FXT only)
550 MHz DSP48E slices with 25 x 18 MACs enable single-precision floating point math using 50% fewer resources
System Monitor simplifies system management and diagnostics with built-in analog-to-digital converter
Second-generation sparse chevron packaging improves signal integrity while reducing system cost
Enhanced device configuration reduces cost with support for commodity flash memory

Learn about market-specific advantages

The Virtex-5 family of FPGAs offers a choice of four new platforms:

Optimized for high-performance logic

Optimized for high-performance logic with low-power serial connectivity

Optimized for DSP and memory-intensive applications with low-power serial connectivity

Optimized for embedded processing and memory-intensive applications with highest-speed serial connectivity

Achieve a two speed-grade performance gain with new ExpressFabric technology
550 MHz clocking
Performance-tuned IP blocks
1100 DMIPS PowerPC 440 processor blocks with high-bandwidth, low-latency interfaces
528 GMACS from DSP48E slices
192 GFLOPS single-precision and 68 GFLOPS double-precision floating point DSP
1.25 Gbps LVDS I/O

Optimize I/O Bandwidth, Power and Cost with Easy-to-Use High-Speed Serial Solutions

150 Mbps - 6.5 Gbps high performance and 100 Mbps - 3.75 Gbps low power serial connectivity
Hardened PCI Express® compliant endpoint blocks and Tri-mode Ethernet MACs
Low power transceivers: less than 100 mW at 3.2 Gbps
Advanced equalization to drive backplanes beyond 40”
Protocol kits accelerate development