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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
XILINX UNVEILS END TO END PROGRAMMABLE SOLUTIONS
FOR THE ENTIRE LINE CARD TO THE BACKPLANE
Xilinx introduces AdvancedTCA development platform,
next generation crossbar II,
mesh fabric reference design at Intel Developer Forum
INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Calif., February 17, 2004
- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced the industry's first
AdvancedTCA-compliant development platform. The development platform
enables high speed, serial backplane solutions to be rapidly developed
and deployed based on Xilinx Virtex-II Pro™ FPGAs for bandwidth
intensive telecom, datacom, compute and storage applications. As
part of the comprehensive platform, Xilinx is also providing a full
mesh reference design, a second-generation programmable crossbar
switch solution, and the world's first Advanced Switching core based
on the AS SIG specification (www.xilinx.com/prs_rls/ip/0427_as_core.htm).
For complete information regarding the AdvancedTCA development platform,
visit www.xilinx.com/esp.
Xilinx is demonstrating the AdvancedTCA development platform for
the first time today at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco,
California (Intel Pavilion Booth # 42 and Intel Communications Alliance
Booth #509). The platform, together with the Intel® IXDP2401
advanced development platform, features the Intel® IXP2400 network
processor and Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs with embedded PowerPC processors
and high speed-serial RocketIO™ technology.
"AdvancedTCA was defined to support a scalable backplane environment
that will address a wide spectrum of standard and proprietary fabric
interfaces," said Joe Pavlat, president and chairman of the PCI
Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG). "What Xilinx has
delivered today will accelerate a broad range of applications by
allowing designers to take full advantage of protocol-agnostic,
off-the-shelf solutions based on the AdvancedTCA standard, and with
a level of flexibility that has never before been achieved."
ATCA Development Platform
The full mesh ATCA development platform accelerates development
and deployment of a broad-range of markets and applications. It
uses a standard footprint that leverages existing infrastructure
to gain added flexibility while ensuring interoperability through
compliance with the PICMG standard. The development platform offers
a 15 channel, one port full mesh fabric interface, supports port
rates to 3.125 Gbps and includes an area for customers to develop
application-specific personality modules. It utilizes a Virtex-II
Pro FPGA based fabric interface that includes all PICMG 3.0 defined
card and shelf management functionality. Management firmware executes
on one of the Virtex-II Pro's PowerPC processors running an embedded
Linux operating system. The ATCA Development Board is available
through Avnet.
"With an estimated market size of $3.7B in 2007 for AdvancedTCA
platforms, even in the traditionally proprietary telecom sector,
it is clear that open standards-based building blocks are of interest
for a wide variety of system implementations because they represent
an improved business model," said Karen Liu, managing director,
Telecom Advisory Services at RHK, Inc. "A development-to-early production
platform such as that announced today by Xilinx, represents a potentially
large win-win for system companies and vendors in terms of lower
development and support costs, product differentiation and economies
of scale across multiple products."
Mesh Fabric Reference Design
The mesh fabric reference design from Xilinx is a fully functional
reference design that enables cost-optimized and highly flexible
serial mesh backplanes with Mesh Technology on Xilinx (MTX) Solutions.
MTX has been targeted for Virtex-II Pro FPGAs with all the baseline
functions required for a mesh backplane fabric interface, including
ingress and egress datapath blocks, serial link interface blocks
utilizing RocketIO MGTs, and a management interface block for control
plane access to internal control and status registers. All documentation
and design files are available free of charge and can be easily
accessed at www.xilinx.com/esp.
Crossbar Switch Solution
The second generation programmable crossbar switch solution for
the Virtex-II and Virtex-II Pro family of FPGAs utilizes
a Clos-based architecture to further improve area and performance.
The solution produces an area savings of nearly 4X, enables up to
2048 I/Os, and improves performance up to 275 Mbs per channel in
V-II Pro devices. I/O interfaces include 3.125 Gbps and 10 Gbps
RocketIOs. The second-generation crossbar switch employs on-chip
partial reconfiguration technology using embedded PowerPC or MicroBlaze
processors to implement crossbar connections. Digital crossconnects,
add-drop multiplexers, video, broadcast and ATM switches are example
applications that benefit from programmable, parameterized designs
with crossbar switch functions. The reference design includes documentation
and demonstration files which are available free of charge and can
be easily accessed at www.xilinx.com/esp upon
registering at the Xilinx website.
Xilinx Line Card and Backplane Design Online Resource
Xilinx eSP (www.xilinx.com/esp) is a proven
resource for engineers, dedicated to accelerating the development
of products across a wide-range of markets and applications, including
end-to-end programmable solutions across the line card and backplane.
The site is a comprehensive resource, delivering a powerful array
of solutions and information in a single location.
About High-Speed Serial Initiative and Xilinx Solutions for High-speed
Serial Backplanes
The Xilinx High-Speed Serial Initiative was introduced to help accelerate
the industry shift from parallel to serial I/O signaling technologies
by delivering next generation connectivity solutions which support
line rates from 622 Mbps to 10 Gbps and beyond. Xilinx's high performance
Virtex-II Pro family of FPGAs deliver industry leading features,
including IBM PowerPC™ processors immersed into the industry's
leading FPGA fabric, muti-gigabit RocketIO™ serial transceivers,
and cutting-edge embedded design tools, combined with a suite of
IP cores – representing a comprehensive solution for a broad
range of connectivity requirements across the entire line to the
backplane.
About Xilinx
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) is the worldwide leader of programmable
logic solutions. Additional information about Xilinx is available
at www.xilinx.com.
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