The Virtex series is Xilinx‘s high-end products and the industry‘s top FPGA products. Xilinx wins the market with its Virtex series products, thus gaining the leading position of FPGA suppliers. It can be said that Xilinx leads the field programmable gate array industry with its Virtex-5, Virtex-4, Virtex-2 Pro and Virtex-2 series of FPGA products. Mainly for telecommunications infrastructure, automotive industry, high-end consumer electronics and other applications. The current mainstream chips include: Vitrex-2, Virtex-2 Pro, Virtex-4 and Virtex-5.

(1)Vitrex-2 series

The Vitrex-2 series has an excellent platform solution, which further enhances its performance; and the built-in IP core hard core technology can distribute the hard IP core anywhere on the chip, with more resources and higher performance than the Virtex series. performance. Its main features are as follows: Adopt 0.15/0.12 process; the core voltage is 1.5V, and the working clock can reach 420MHz; Support more than 20 kinds of I/O interface standards; Embedded multiple hard-core multipliers to improve DSP processing capability; Complete system clock management function, up to 12 DCM modules.

(2) Virtex-2Pro series

On the basis of Virtex-2, the Virtex-2 Pro series enhances the embedded processing function, embeds the PowerPC™405 core, and also includes advanced Active Interconnect technology to solve the challenges faced by high-performance systems. . In addition, high-speed serial transceivers have been added to provide a Gigabit Ethernet solution. Its main features are as follows: Adopt 0.13 process; Core voltage is 1.5V, working clock can reach 420MHz; Support more than 20 kinds of I/O interface standards; Added 2 PowerPC™ processors with high-performance RISC technology and frequency up to 400MHz; Multiple Rocket serial transceivers with a rate of 3.125Gbps; multiple hard-core multipliers are embedded to improve DSP processing capability; with complete system clock management function, up to 12 DCM modules.

(3) Virtex-4 series

Virtex-4 devices integrate up to 200,000 logic cells, up to 500 MHz performance and unmatched system features. Virtex-4 products are based on the new Advanced Silicon Combination Module (ASMBL) architecture, which provides a multi-platform approach (LX, SX, FX), allowing designers to choose different development platforms according to their needs; high logic density and high clock frequency Up to 500MHz; with DCM module, PMCD phase matching clock divider, on-chip differential clock network; 500MHz SmartRAM technology with integrated FIFO control logic, each I/O integrates 1 Gbps I/O and ChipSync source synchronous technology Xtreme DSP logic slice. Its main features are as follows: It adopts 90 Ω process and integrates up to 200,000 logic units; the system clock is 500MHz; it adopts 500MHz Smart RAM technology with integrated FIFO control logic; it has DCM module, PMCD phase matching clock divider and on-chip differential clock Network; each I/O integrates 1Gbps I/O with ChipSync source synchronous technology; has super signal processing capability, integrates hundreds of XtremeDSP slices, and the maximum processing rate of a single chip is 1. The Virtex-4 LX platform FPGA is characterized by a density of up to 200,000 logic cells, which is one of the FPGA series with the highest logic density in the world, suitable for design applications with high logic gate requirements.

The Virtex-4 SX platform improves the ratio of DSP, RAM unit and logic unit, can provide up to 512 XtremeDSP hard cores, can work at 500MHz, and its maximum processing rate is 40 different functions and can be created with it. Multiple combinations can be used to realize larger-scale DSP modules. Compared with the Virtex-2 Pro series, it also greatly reduces cost and power consumption, with extremely low DSP cost. The FPGA of the SX platform is very suitable for high-speed, real-time digital signal processing.

The Virtex-4 FX platform embeds 1~2 32-bit RISC PowerPC™ processors, provides 4 1300 Dhrystone MIPS, 10/100/1000 adaptive Ethernet MAC cores, co-processor controller unit (APU) Allows the processor to construct special instructions in the FPGA, making the performance of the FX device 20 times that of the fixed instruction mode; in addition, it also contains 24 Rocket I/O serial high-speed transceivers, supporting commonly used 0.6Gbps, 1.25Gbps, 2.5Gbps , 3.125 Gbps, 4 Gbps, 6.25 Gbps, 10 Gbps and other high-speed transmission rates. The FX platform is suitable for complex computing and embedded processing applications.

(5) Virtex-5 series

The Virtex®-5 FPGA is the world‘s first 65nm FPGA family, manufactured on 1.0v, Tri-Gate Oxide process technology and offers 330,000 logic cells, 1,200 I/O pins, 48 low-power transceivers and built-in PowerPC™440, PCIe® endpoint and Ethernet MAC modules. Five series of platforms have been provided, namely LX, LXT, SXT, FXT, TXT, each platform has achieved the best balance in high performance logic, serial connection function, signal processing and embedded processing performance. For example, LX is optimized for high-performance logic, LXT is optimized for high-performance logic with low-power serial connectivity, and SXT is optimized for DSP and memory-intensive applications with low-power serial connectivity. The Virtex-5 FXT is used to implement embedded processing with the highest speed serial connectivity, and the Virtex-5 TXT can be used to implement ultra-high bandwidth applications such as bridging, switching and aggregation in wireline and datacom systems.

Its main features are as follows:

Using the latest 65 process, combined with low-power IP blocks, the dynamic power consumption is reduced by 35%; in addition, the 65nm tri-gate oxide technology is used to maintain low static power consumption; the 65nm ExpressFabric technology is used to achieve a true 6-input LUTs and improved performance by 2 speed levels. Enhanced 36 Kbit block RAM with built-in FIFO logic and ECC for building larger arrays with low-power circuitry that shuts down unused memory. Up to 330,000 logic cells for unparalleled high performance; up to 1,200 I/O pins for high-bandwidth memory/network interfaces, 1.25 Gbps LVDS; up to 24 low-power transceivers for 100 Mbps - 3.75 Gbps high-speed serial interface; core voltage is 1V, 550 MHz system clock; 550 MHz DSP48E slice with built-in 25 x 18 MAC, provides 352 GMACS performance, can achieve 50% reduction in resource usage Single-precision floating-point operations; improved area efficiency with built-in PCIe endpoint and Ethernet MAC blocks; more flexible Clock Management Tile combined with new PLLs for precise clock phase control and jitter filtering Digital Clock Manager (DCM) for various clock synthesis; Adopt second-generation sparse chevron package to improve signal integrity and reduce system cost; Enhance device configuration to support commercial flash memory, thereby reducing cost.

(6) Virtex-6 FPGA series

Based on a 40nm manufacturing process using the third-generation Xilinx ASMBL™ architecture, the Virtex-6 FPGA family is also supported by next-generation development tools and an extensive IP library already developed for Virtex-5 FPGAs. These provide powerful support for prolific development and design porting. Compared with 40nm FPGA products offered by competitors, the new Virtex-6 FPGA family of devices has 15% higher performance and 15% lower power consumption. The new devices operate on a 1.0v core voltage, with an optional 0.9v low-power version available. These allow system designers to incorporate Virtex-6 FPGAs in their designs, thereby supporting the construction of "green" central offices and data centers. This is especially important for the telecommunications industry, which is expanding support for Internet video and rich media content.

The Virtex-6 FPGA family includes three application-oriented and optimized FPGA platforms that provide different combinations of features and functions to better meet the needs of different customer applications.

Virtex-6 LXT FPGA—Optimized for target applications requiring high-performance logic, DSP, and serial connectivity based on low-power GTX 6.5Gbps serial transceivers.

Virtex-6 SXT FPGA—Optimized for target applications requiring ultra-high performance DSP and serial connectivity based on low-power GTX 6.5Gbps serial transceivers.

Virtex-6 HXT FPGA—Optimized for communications applications requiring the highest serial connectivity, up to 64 GTH serial transceivers provide up to 11.2Gbps bandwidth.

Virtex-6 FPGAs combine advanced hardware chip technology, innovative circuit design techniques, and architectural enhancements. Compared with previous-generation Virtex devices and competing FPGA products, the power consumption is greatly reduced, the performance is higher, and the cost is lower .

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