Xilinx Announces Immediate Availability of Next Generation PCI Express* Solution
Company to Demonstrate Its Solution at Fall 2003 Intel Developers Forum
INTEL DEVELOPERS FORUM, SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. , today announced the immediate availability of the enhanced Real-PCI(TM) Express v2.0 intellectual property core for the Virtex-II Pro(TM) Platform FPGAs, a part of its industry leading PCI Express solution. Originally debuted in July 2002 as the world's first PCI Express IP core, it enables instant deployment of PCI Express-based systems and is targeted at the desktop, mobile, server, storage and embedded communications market segment. Xilinx will be demonstrating its next-generation PCI Express solution at the Intel(R) Developers Forum today in San Jose. Customers interested in seeing the PCI Express demo, please visit Xilinx booth #135. For complete information about the PCI Express demonstration and core, visit http://www.xilinx.com/connectivity.
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"Today, we are shipping an enhanced version of our PCI Express solution that was available on the same day the PCI Express specification became public," said Mark Aaldering, senior director of the IP Solutions Division at Xilinx. "We strongly believe that the PCI Express technology, combined with the industry leading Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs will be a very widely used system interconnect solution in the communications industry."
"PCI Express cores are at the foundation of PCI Express solution development across client, server, communications and embedded platforms," said Tim Parker, direct of Technology Initiatives for the Intel Communications Group. "Xilinx's demonstration at IDF underscores the rapidly emerging value of products available from companies like Xilinx which is causing the proliferation of PCI Express through the communications industry."
The PCI Express Core
The Xilinx PCI Express core is protocol and electrically compatible to the v1.0a base PCI Express specification. Designers can utilize the interface to maximize performance and feature quality for high-performance workstations and consumer gaming devices. The core reaches line speeds of up to 2.5 Gbps with single lane (x1) configuration and up to 10 Gbps with four lane (x4) configuration by utilizing the features of the embedded RocketIO(TM) multi-gigabit transceivers in the Virtex-II Pro device such as clock data recovery, 8B/10B encoding, 3.125 Gbps SerDes, transmit/receive FIFOs, and CRC. Customers can use the core to design high performance PCI Express systems using Xilinx Smart-IP(TM) technology to meet critical multi-GHz timing requirements.
Price and Availability
The PCI Express core is available now as a LogiCORE(TM) product under the terms of SignOnce(TM) IP license and is priced at $25,000. Once purchased, it can be configured and downloaded from the Xilinx website at http://www.xilinx.com/pciexpress . For more information and to purchase the Virtex-II Pro FPGA, visit http://www.xilinx.com/platform. Information about licensing and other Xilinx LogiCORE products is available on the Xilinx IP Center at http://www.xilinx.com/ipcenter.
About This Week's IDF
The Intel Developer Forum is the technology industry's premier event for hardware and software developers. Held worldwide throughout the year, IDF brings together key industry players to discuss cutting-edge technology and products for PCs, servers, communications equipment, and handheld clients. Xilinx will be demonstrating interoperability between the Xilinx PCI Express solution and a PCI Express host in its booth. Please visit http://www.xilinx.com/events for more information. For more information on IDF and Intel technology, visit http://developer.intel.com/ .
Intel Communications Alliance
Intel is an associate member of the Intel Communications Alliance, a community of communications and embedded developers and solutions providers. For more information, please visit http://www.intel.com/go.ica.
About Xilinx
Xilinx, Inc. is the worldwide leader of programmable logic and programmable system solutions. Additional information about Xilinx is available at http://www.xilinx.com/.
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