XILINX AND NALLATECH DELIVER INDUSTRY'S FIRST
PCI EXPRESS DESIGN KIT
Complete solution enables instant deployment
of PCI Express technology
PROGRAMMABLE WORLD 2003, SAN JOSE, Calif., May 6,
2003 -Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX), and Nallatech today announced
the availability of the Xilinx® Real-PCI™ Express Design
Kit - an industry first providing an ideal development platform
for customers building products for the communications, computing,
storage, graphics, gaming and embedded markets based on high-performance
PCI Express™ technology. A part of the Xilinx High-Speed
Serial Initiative to provide comprehensive serial design solutions,
the design kit uses the proven Xilinx Virtex-II Pro™ FPGAs
with 3.125 Gbps RocketIO™ transceivers and includes the Xilinx
LogiCORE™ PCI Express core and Nallatech PCI Express prototyping
board. For complete information about the Xilinx PCI Express solution,
visit www.xilinx.com/pciexpress.
"Providing complete, easy-to-use design solutions, is a crucial
part of our strategy for bringing high-speed serial connectivity
to our broad customer base. The new Xilinx design kit offers a
flexible and powerful platform to develop high-bandwidth serial
PCI Express designs today, well ahead of ASIC-based implementations,"
said Ron DiGiuseppe, senior manager of IP Solutions Marketing
at Xilinx. "By collaborating with a system specialist like
Nallatech, we are able to help our customers quickly transition
their designs from PCI to PCI Express."
"Nallatech is pleased to have the opportunity to once again
provide another high performance Design Kit to Xilinx, demonstrating
our Gigabit I/O expertise. The kit gives customers immediate access
to the latest high speed serial technology utilizing leading edge
Xilinx RocketIO technology and provides users the fastest and
easiest migration path from PCI to PCI Express," said Charlie
Cump, Nallatech vice president of Business Development, North
America
The PCI Express Core
The Xilinx PCI Express core is protocol and electrically compatible
to the v1.0 base PCI Express specification. Designers can utilize
the interface to maximize performance and feature quality for
high-performance workstations and consumer gaming devices. The
industry-leading PCI Express solution includes the Physical Layer,
Data Link Layer and Transaction Layer functionality enabling the
development of complete end point products. The core reaches a
2.5 Gbps line speed utilizing the features of the Virtex-II Pro
Rocket IO multi-gigabit transceivers such as clock data recovery,
8B/10B encoding, 3.125 Gbps SerDes, transmit/receive FIFOs, and
CRC. Customers can use the core to design high performance PCI
Express systems using Xilinx Smart-IP™ technology to meet
critical 2.5 GHz timing requirements. The PCI Express core is
one of many connectivity cores offered through the Xilinx LogiCORE
solution. For complete information on Xilinx connectivity cores,
please visit www.xilinx.com/connectivity
The Nallatech PCI Express Prototyping Board
The Nallatech PCI Express prototyping board is a PCI motherboard
with a single DIME-II module hosting a XC2VP20 Virtex-II Pro device
providing a PCI Express connection over an InfiniBand™ cable.
Up to 4MBytes of ZBT SRAM is offered in two independent banks.
Connection to the PC is made either by 32bit/33MHz PCI or USB.
Software and firmware is provided to support PCI Express. Nallatech's
plug'n'play FUSE software is included, providing easy control,
communication and configuration of the FPGA and provides API's
into popular design tools. Reference designs are included.
PCI Express Design Kit Pricing and Availability
The Real-PCI Express Design Kit (DO-DI-PCIEXP-DK) contains a fully
tested, pre-verified Xilinx LogiCORE PCI Express x1 IP core, a
PCI Express prototyping board with a Virtex-II Pro XC2VP20 FPGA,
PCI Express reference designs and expert support services and
is available now for $29,000.
About the Xilinx High-Speed Serial Initiative Initiative
The Xilinx High-Speed Serial Initiative, announced October 21,
2002, is designed to accelerate the industry move from parallel
to serial I/O technology by delivering next generation connectivity
solutions that meet bandwidth requirements from 3.125 Gbps today
to 10 Gbps and beyond. For complete information about the High-Speed
Serial Initiative, visit www.xilinx.com/serialsolution.
About Nallatech
Nallatech, founded 1993, is recognized worldwide as a technology
leader in reconfigurable computers for high performance applications
in aerospace and defense, real-time imaging, DSP, scientific computing,
and simulation and modeling. Nallatech is one of seven Xilinx
Diamond Xpert Partners worldwide. More information at www.nallatech.com
