Xilinx Announces Production Availability of all Virtex-5 SXT Devices

( 1 May 2008 )

Xilinx Inc.'s digital signal processing (DSP)-optimized Virtex-5 SXT devices are now available in production. Part of the Xilinx XtremeDSP portfolio of solutions, the Virtex-5 SXT platform of devices can deliver over 350 GMACs of fixed-point performance for many applications including wireless, test and measurement, and defense, and up to 82.5 GFLOPS of floating-point DSP performance for applications such as medical imaging.

The Virtex-5 SXT platform consists of three devices, SX35T, SX50T and SX95T that offer a range in logic density from 35,000 to 95,000 logic cells and 192 to 640 dedicated DSP48E slices. Each Virtex-5 SXT device offers integrated system-level capabilities that shrink design cycles and reduce system cost. These features include low-power RocketIO GTP serial transceivers, and built-in PCI Express Endpoint and tri-mode Ethernet MAC blocks.

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