Xilinx Introduces XtremeDSP Starter Kit for DSP Systems Development
March 10, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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Xilinx Inc. announced the availability of the XtremeDSP starter kit - Spartan-3A DSP FPGA edition.
The new kit can be used in cost-sensitive digital signal processing (DSP) application development such as portable medical equipment, low-cost wireless infrastructure, flat panel displays and other applications that require DSP performance along with low cost and low power, Xilinx said.
This new kit features the Spartan-3A DSP 1800 field-programmable gate array (FPGA), which offers more than 20 billion multiply-accumulates per second (GMACS).
The Spartan-3A DSP FPGA architecture includes the DSP48A slice, which designers can use to implement independent arithmetic functions.
Also included is system generator for DSP, which enables the use of The Mathworks Matlab and Simulink modeling environments when designing with Xilinx FPGAs.
"The XtremeDSP starter kit - Spartan-3A DSP FPGA edition is the ideal platform for users who have never designed DSP applications into FPGAs before," said Dean Westman, vice president of marketing for the Xilinx processor solutions group.
"It's attractively priced and includes our premier DSP development tool, system generator for DSP, that lets new users quickly create DSP designs with Simulink software using an extensive library of over 100 Xilinx-optimized DSP building blocks," he said.
"System generator makes it easy for new users to familiarize themselves with the capabilities of the XtremeDSP slice and to explore how parallelism can be used to boost the performance of their DSP applications."
The board includes a video graphics array (VGA) port for developing video processing algorithms, an Ethernet 10/100/1000 physical layer (PHY), as well as an RS-232 port for simple communications with a remote console.
It also comes equipped with 128 Mb X 32 b double data rate 2 synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDR2 SDRAM), 16 M x 8 parallel/bits per inch (BPI) configuration flash and 64 Mb of service provider interface (SPI) configuration/storage flash.
Also supported is a Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) interface for configuration and debug, as well as a module connector, cables and power connector for the System ACE tool. For adding further functionality, the development platform includes an expansion slot to enable designers to integrate add-on cards available from Xilinx distributors.
Source: Xilinx Inc.