DSP Magazine

Solutions for High-Performance Signal Processing Designs
Issue 3 : Xilinx Unleashes New XtremeDSP Portfolio

Welcome

• Challenge Your Assumptions
  Editorial by Omid Tahernia, Vice President and General Manager, DSP DIvision.

Business Viewpoints

• Leveraging the Virtex-5 SXT High-Performance DSP Solution
  The SXT platform maximizes DSP bandwidth and minimizes power consumption.
• Spartan-3A DSP Takes Aim at Affordable DSP Performance
  The latest addition to the XtremeDSP platform portfolio takes price/performance to a new level.
• DSP Performance of FPGAs Revealed
  A new report provides independent DSP benchmark results for FPGAs.

Wireless

• Developing Advanced Wireless Devices with New Virtex FPGA Capabilities
  New architectural features, tools, and development platforms facilitate the development of next-generation multi-mode/multi-protocol wireless devices.
• How to Pack a Room of Analog FM Modulators into a Xilinx FPGA
  DSP techniques replace a legacy multi-channel analog modulator.
• Accelerating the Re-Configuration of Digital Front-End Solutions for Cellular Base Stations
  Using a library of pre-verified IP blocks, you can implement various TD-SCDMA digital front-end solutions.

Multimedia, Video, and Imaging

• Video Processing Using FPGAs in Video Surveillance Systems
  You can implement a DVR using the Xilinx Video IP Block Set.
• Extending DSP Design to Heterogeneous Hardware Platforms
  You can add an FPGA co-processor to a DSP system in an automated flow.
• Cost-Effective Two-Dimensional Rank-Order Filters on FPGAs
  Xilinx Virtex FPGAs provide excellent co-, pre-, and post-processing hardware acceleration solutions.
• Develop Imaging Systems with the Right Mix of Technology
  You can harness the combined strengths of DSPs and FPGAs to create a powerful imaging system.

Computation

• Supercharge Your DSP with Ultra-Fast Floating-Point FFTs
  A hybrid technique yields a gigasample-per-second 32- to 2,048-point IEEE floating-point FFT in a Virtex-4 SX device.

Reference

• Educational Opportunities
  Deepen your knowledge of FPGA-based DSP design.
• DSP Application Notes
  Jumpstart your DSP design with Xilinx application notes describing specific design examples and methodologies.