Virtex-5 SXT Platform FPGAs

Built on the revolutionary ExpressFabric™ architecture, the Xilinx Virtex-5 family is the ultimate system integration platform. With the industry’s highest performance, ultimate connectivity, optimized power, and lowest system cost, you can design next-generation systems for wired/wireless networking, audio/video, storage/server and other markets with maximum productivity.

The Virtex-5 family of FPGAs offers a choice of four new platforms, each delivering an optimized balance of high-performance logic, serial connectivity, signal processing, and embedded processing. Three platforms are available now:

LX: Optimized for high-performance logic

LXT: Optimized for high-performance logic with low-power serial connectivity

SXT: Optimized for DSP and memory-intensive applications with low-power serial connectivity

Meet Your Performance Targets Easily:

• Achieve a two speed-grade performance gain with new ExpressFabric technology
• 550 MHz clocking
• Performance-tuned IP blocks
• 352 GMACS from DSP48E slices
• 1.25 Gbps LVDS I/O

Optimize I/O Bandwidth, Power and Cost with Easy-to-Use High-Speed Serial Solutions

• 100 Mbps—3.2 Gbps serial connectivity
• Hardened PCI Express® endpoint blocks and Tri-mode Ethernet MACs
• Low power transceivers: less than 100 mW at 3.2 Gbps
• Advanced equalization to drive backplanes beyond 40”
• Protocol kits accelerate development

Reduce Your Power Budget

• 35% lower dynamic power with 65nm ExpressFabric and power-saving IP blocks
• Maintain low static power with 65nm triple-oxide technology

Ultimate Connectivity with SelectIO™ Technology

• 1.25 Gbps differential, 800 Mbps single-ended I/O
• 3.3V support at 65nm
• Second-generation sparse chevron packaging reduces crosstalk
• On-substrate bypass capacitors simplify PCB design

Reduce System Cost

• Choose smaller device with efficient ExpressFabric technology and 65nm
• Meet aggressive performance targets in the least expensive speed grade
• Reduce part count with built-in, low-power transceivers
• Increase area efficiency with built-in PCIe endpoint and Ethernet MAC blocks
• Choose smaller heat sinks and fans with reduced FPGA power consumption
• Achieve 30-75% cost reduction for volume production using Xilinx EasyPath™ FPGAs

Higher DSP Performance, Versatility, and Efficiency with Lower Power

The 550 MHz DSP48E slices available in all Virtex™-5 family members accelerate algorithms and enable higher levels of DSP integration and lower power consumption than previous-generation Virtex devices.

The DSP48E slice enables you to efficiently add powerful FPGA-based DSP functionality to your system:

• The DSP48E slice supports over 40 dynamically controlled operating modes including; multiplier, multiplier-accumulator, multiplier-adder/subtractor, three input adder, barrel shifter, wide bus multiplexers, wide counters, and comparators.
• DSP48E slices enable efficient adder-chain architectures for implementing high-performance filters and complex math efficiently.
• Each DSP48E slice draws only 1.38 mW/100 MHz, at a toggle rate of 38%, a 40% reduction from previous-generation slices.