COMMUNICATION DESIGN CONFERENCE, SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/
-- Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced the immediate availability of
its Virtex II Pro(TM) device containing the world's first PowerPC processor
with RapidIO(TM) interface. System architects in need of an overall system
performance boost can now leverage the tightly integrated IBM PowerPC
processor and RapidIO interface to implement high performance, low latency
applications such as network control planes, DSP traffic aggregation and
enterprise storage channel processing. Developed in collaboration with IBM,
the complete solution leverages the embedded PowerPC processors and proven
SelectI/O(TM)-Ultra of the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro programmable platform. For
complete information about the Virtex II Pro device with RapidIO interface,
visit www.xilinx.com/connectivity.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020822/XLNXLOGO )Today's news underscores the benefits of the technology relationship
between Xilinx and IBM in bringing innovative and flexible new solutions to
market. The Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs are the result of a collaborative
design effort between the two companies to deliver a new platform for use in
communications, storage, and consumer applications.
"We're working with Xilinx to provide our embedded PowerPC customers with
new development options for their products," said Scottie Ginn, vice president
of standard products for the IBM Microelectronics Division. "We believe
Xilinx's integration of PowerPC, Virtex-II Pro, and RapidIO technologies
represents a unique and powerful combination."
"Xilinx is pleased to be collaborating with our key partner IBM to
accelerate the industry-wide adoption of the RapidIO interface," said Rich
Sevcik, senior vice president of FPGA Products at Xilinx. "Starting with our
introduction of the first RapidIO core in May, 2001, Xilinx continues to offer
the industry's broadest family of RapidIO building blocks to provide system
architects with greater IO and processing performance for building scalable
next generation programmable systems."
The RapidIO Solution
The RapidIO endpoint solution is compliant with the interconnect
specification v1.1 and leverages the special features of the Virtex-II series
FPGAs such as the BlockRAM, Digital Clock Managers, and the 840 Mbps LVDS I/Os
to support an aggregate bandwidth of up to 8 Gbps per port. A bridge to hook
up the RapidIO endpoint to the PowerPC CoreConnect(TM) PLB is available in the
form of a reference design.
License price and availability
The RapidIO PHY and Transport/Logical Layer cores are available now as a
LogiCORE(TM) product under the terms of SignOnce(TM) IP license and is priced
at $15,000 and $10,000 respectively. For more information and to purchase the
Virtex-II Pro FPGA, visit www.xilinx.com/platform. Complete information about
Xilinx connectivity solutions is available at www.xilinx.com/connectivity.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions.
For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
Source:
Xilinx, Inc.
