DSP
Key Documentation
Xilinx new 7 series DSP product portfolio combines massive DSP processing bandwidth and low power with easy to use design flows to insure your next design is on time and on spec.
- Peak performance: Highest performance DSP at any price
- Price optimized performance: Performance for volume applications at the right price
- Performance boost: Accelerate traditional DSP devices with FPGA co-processing
Accelerate your DSP design development with a DSP Targeted Design Platform that includes everything you need to get started today using your preferred DSP development environment.
DSP Benefits
- Meet aggressive DSP performance requirements with fewer chips and less power and cost through the inherent parallelism of FPGAs
- Accelerate the performance and extend the functionality of DSPs using FPGAs as co-processors
- Reduce cost by implementing multiple signal processing channels on a single device using FPGA reconfigurable hardware
- Integrate multi-channel, high-speed analog interfaces using Xilinx SelectIO technology
- Accelerate DSP development using certified high-level design flows from MATLAB/Simulink and C/C++
- Quickly assemble signal processing datapaths that include IP, memory controllers and analog interfaces using the industry standard AXI-4 Interface
- Artix™-7 FPGAs deliver the lowest power and lowest cost and up to 1,306 GMACs of DSP horsepower for symmetric filtering to address high-volume markets that demand low power and high performance
- Kintex™-7 delivers 2x price-performance improvement while consuming 50% less power compared to previous generation FPGAs
- Xilinx Virtex®-7 FPGAs address a need for a hardware solution in applications that require the highest levels of DSP performance
- Reduce equipment operating costs by leveraging the DSP processing bandwidth of 7-series FPGAs to implement sophisticated power management algorithms such as digital pre-distortion
DSP Solution Elements
7-Series FPGAs Deliver Lowest Power, Highest Performance
The 7 Series comprises three new FPGA families that deliver breakthrough power, performance, and design portability. 28nm process and design innovations deliver a breakthrough 50% reduction in power consumption and provide a significant power advantage over previous generation FPGAs. A unified architecture preserves IP investment and speeds design migration. ISE® Design Suite 13 helps designers get products to market faster and with high quality. The 7 series FPGAs now deliver integration beyond digital with Analog Mixed Signal (AMS) technology, providing simple analog monitoring to more complex analog signal processing, resulting in lower system cost, smaller area, and increased reliability. These families are the foundation for Xilinx next-generation domain-optimized and market-specific Targeted Design Platforms.
Artix-7 - Industry's Lowest Cost and Power
Artix™-7 FPGAs deliver the lowest power and lowest cost to address high-volume markets. This family is one of three product families built on a common 28nm architecture designed for maximum power efficiency and offers over two times the capacity, 30% higher performance, 50% lower power consumption -- and logic up to 350K logic cell density at lower price points than Spartan®-6 FPGAs. The Artix-7 family establishes a new standard for best cost for higher speed interfaces, including memories and transceivers. Artix-7 FPGAs further reduce system cost with the smallest footprint packages, leveraging wire bond chip-scale BGA technology. The Artix-7 device family includes devices with up to 1,306 GMACs of DSP performance for symmetric filtering.
Kintex-7 - Industry's Best Price-Performance
Kintex-7 FPGAs establish a new category of FPGAs with high-end performance at less than half the price. The Kintex-7 family is one of three product families built on a common 28nm architecture designed for maximum power efficiency and delivers a 2x price-performance improvement while consuming 50% less power compared to previous generation FPGAs. Kintex-7 FPGAs offer high-density logic, high-performance serial connectivity, memory, and DSP, plus Analog Mixed Signal all to enable higher system-level performance and the next level of integration. These capabilities allow for continued innovation and differentiation in designs at volume price points. The Virtex-7 device family includes devices with up to 1,920 DSP48E1 slices that combined deliver up to 2,845 GMACs of DSP performance for symmetric filtering.
Virtex-7 Industry's Highest System Performance
Virtex®-7 FPGAs are optimized for advanced systems requiring the highest performance and highest bandwidth connectivity. The Virtex-7 family is one of three product families built on a common 28nm architecture designed for maximum power efficiency and delivers 2x higher system performance and 50% lower power consumption than previous generation FPGAs. The Virtex-7 FPGA family delivers up to 2 million logic cells, 67Mbits of internal memory, 4.5 Tera-MACS DSP throughput, 2.8 Tb/s serial bandwidth, and fully integrated Analog Mixed Signal capability, Virtex-7 FPGAs are ideally suited for highest performance wireless, wired, and broadcast infrastructure equipment, aerospace and defense systems, high-performance computing, as well as ASIC prototyping and emulation. The Virtex-7 device family includes devices with up to 3,600 DSP48E1 slices that deliver up to 5,335 GMACs of DSP performance for symmetric filtering.
Xilinx offers DSP design flows integrated into our DSP Targeted Design Platforms tailored to the unique needs of hardware, algorithm and traditional processor based DSP designers. Supporting all mainstream DSP design entry methods to ensure productivity.
ISE® Design Suite: DSP Edition forms the foundation of all DSP design flows and includes features, technologies and DSP-specific IP that enable these design flows. Developers with little FPGA design experience can quickly create production quality FPGA implementations of DSP algorithms.
Model Based Design - MATLAB / Simulink
ISE Design Suite: DSP Edition includes System Generator for DSP™, the industry's leading high-level tool for designing high-performance DSP systems using FPGAs. System Generator enables high-level model-based designs to be created using MathWorks™ MATLAB and Simulink and provides automatic fixed or floating-point hardware generation, co-simulation and system integration into RTL or embedded systems.
C/C++ Based DSP Design
Vivado™ High-Level Synthesis accelerates design implementation by enabling C, C++ and System C specifications to be directly targeted into FPGAs without the need to manually create RTL. This provides system and design architects alike with a faster and more robust way of delivering quality designs.
RTL Based DSP Design
ISE Design Suite: DSP Edition includes DSP specific IP and verification functionality that accelerates RTL development. An extensive library of device optimized DSP IP can be used with RTL to quickly assemble DSP designs that deliver high quality of results without requiring extensive FPGA design experience. DSP algorithms implemented in RTL can be verified from within DSP specific simulation environments such as MATLAB/Simulink or C/C++.
Xilinx provides an extensive set of highly optimized DSP IP that can be used in both RTL and Simulink based design flows. Xilinx IP allows designers to create device optimized FPGA implementations that commonly use DSP algorithms to rapidly create high quality designs.
Intellectual Property for DSP Designs
Included with ISE Design Suite
Available for Purchase
Market Specific DSP and Video IP
Learn more about how support for the AXI4 Interface Protocol offers greater productivity, flexibility, and availability for DSP designers.
In addition to horizontal DSP building block IP, Xilinx also provides an extensive set of vertical market specific IP and algorithms targeting specific applications:
The Xilinx DSP solution helps you develop tailored high-performance DSP solutions for aerospace and defense, digital communications, multimedia, video, and imaging industries.
Featured DSP Boards and Kits
Kintex-7 DSP Kit with High-Speed Analog
The Kintex-7 FPGA DSP Kit includes the KC705 XC7K325T-FF900-2 evaluation board and ISE Design Suite System Edition software.
Additional DSP Boards and Kits
Avnet Virtex-6 FPGA DSP Kit with AD/DA
The Virtex-6 FPGA ML605 Evaluation Kit includes the ML605 board and the ISE Design Suite Logic Edition software.
The Avnet Spartan-6 FPGA DSP Kit includes the Spartan-6 LX150T FPGA and the ISE Design Suite Logic Edition software.
Avnet Spartan-6 / OMAP Co-Processing Development Kit
The Avnet Spartan-6/ OMAP Co-Processing Development Kit includes the Spartan-6 LX45T FPGA and the ISE Design Suite Logic Edition software.
Virtex-6 FPGA ML605 Evaluation Kit
The Virtex-6 FPGA ML605 Evaluation Kit includes the ML605 board and the ISE Design Suite Logic Edition software.
Spartan-6 FPGA SP605 Evaluation Kit
The Spartan-6 FPGA SP605 Evaluation Kit includes the SP605 board and ISE Design Suite Logic Edition: (Device-Locked) for Spartan-6 LX45T FPGA.
Virtex-6 FPGA ML605 Evaluation Kit
The Virtex-6 FPGA ML605 Evaluation Kit includes the ML605 board and the ISE Design Suite Logic Edition software.
Spartan-6 FPGA SP605 Evaluation Kit
The Spartan-6 FPGA SP605 Evaluation Kit includes the SP605 board and ISE Design Suite Logic Edition: (Device-Locked) for Spartan-6 LX45T FPGA.
Spartan-6 FPGA SP601 Evaluation Kit
The Spartan-6 FPGA SP601 Evaluation Kit includes the SP601 base board and ISE Design Suite: WebPack Edition.
XtremeDSP Development Kit – Virtex-5 SXT FPGA Edition
This is a comprehensive development kit that includes hardware, design tools, IP, and pre-verified reference designs that can rapidly accelerate the development of your next DSP application.
XtremeDSP Video Starter Kit — Spartan-3A DSP FPGA Edition
The Spartan-3A DSP FPGA Video Starter Kit is the ideal hardware platform to evaluate Xilinx FPGAs in a wide range of Video and Imaging applications.
XtremeDSP Starter Platform – Spartan-3A DSP FPGA 1800A Edition
Low cost, entry-level environment for developing signal processing designs.
XtremeDSP Development Platform — Virtex-5 FPGA ML506 Edition
Virtex-5 ML506 FPGA DSP Development Platform with RocketIO GTP Transceivers.
XtremeDSP Development Platform — Spartan-3A DSP FPGA 3400A Edition
An ideal platform to evaluate and implement your DSP based FPGA design
XtremeDSP Development Kit — Virtex-4 FPGA Edition
Powered by the SX35 device and fully supported by System Generator, this platform is ideal for high-performance signal processing applications.
XtremeDSP Development Kit with System Generator — Virtex-4 FPGA Edition
The XtremeDSP Development Kit provides a complete platform for high-performance signal processing applications.
Virtex-4 FPGA ML402 SX XtremeDSP Evaluation Platform
Powered by the Virtex-4 SX35 FPGA and supported by industry-standard peripherals, connectors, and interfaces, the Virtex-4 FPGA ML402 Evaluation Platform provides a rich feature set that spans a wide range of applications.
FMC IO Daughter Card Partners
Xilinx and its partners offer a variety of application-specific FMC daughter cards for use with the Spartan-6 and Virtex-6 FPGA DSP Development Kits. The following list of partners provide a board support package for the DSP kits that include interface logic and reference designs.
The Xilinx Alliance Program represents an ecosystem of qualified IP providers, system integrators, and hardware suppliers that can accelerate your design productivity and get you to market faster. Alliance Program members are equipped to maximize the advantages of Xilinx All Programmable Devices in developing market and domain specific solutions. To learn more about products from the Xilinx ecosystem specific to DSP please visit this Alliance Products Search Results Page.