Xilinx celebrates one year at 65nm with production qualification of Virtex-5 FPGAs

Xilinx, Inc., has announced production qualification of the first two devices in its 65nm Virtex-5 FPGA platform, the LX50 and LX50T. Delivering the benefits of 65nm Virtex-5 FPGAs since May 15 2006, the company is now shipping 13 devices across three of the family’s four platforms (LX, LXT, and SXT), providing the highest performance and lowest power without compromises, the industry’s only built-in PCI Express endpoint and Gigabit Ethernet blocks, and the industry’s highest DSP performance.

Through key design team innovations in process technology, architecture and product development methodology, Virtex-5 FPGAs provide Xilinx customers with unprecedented performance and density gains– at speeds on average 30 percent higher and 65 percent increased capacity over previous generation 90-nm FPGAs – while reducing dynamic power consumption by 35 percent, maintaining the same low static power and consuming 45 percent less area.
The Virtex-5 LXT and SXT platforms offer built-in PCI Express endpoint and Gigabit Ethernet blocks backed by a complete high-speed serial I/O design solution that leads the industry in cost and ease-of-use, while the SXT platform provides the industry’s highest DSP performance combined with the robust Virtex-5 serial I/O solution.

By taking advantage of its one+ year lead at the 65-nm process node, Xilinx provides its customers with mature and complete design solutions including software and design tools, protocol packs, development boards, starter kits and online purchase through its global distribution network.

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