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July 22, 2008 - 12:18pm — ikhozamConsumer Handheld Challenges
Traditionally, FPGAs have avoided the consumer handheld market during to its stringent requirements for low power, low cost, and small space. As consumer electronics become more sophisticated, new technology breakthroughs in manufacturing, packaging, and display solutions emerge. Market dynamics remain affected by the same factors: price, power and space.
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Achieve Breakthrough Embedded Performance with the New PowerPC® Processing Block Architecture
The new Virtex®-5 FXT family of Xilinx FPGAs was developed specifically to enable integration of sophisticated embedded systems on a single, flexible and high performance platform. In this webcast, Xilinx will introduce the high system performance and bandwidth advantages of the innovative PowerPC 440 blocks embedded in the new Virtex-5 FXT platform FPGAs. We will show how to build customized embedded systems to unique and exacting design requirements, while lowering both system cost and power consumption. FPGA-based embedded processing designs, reduce component count, board size and ultimately simplify the Bill of Materials without giving up performance.
The PowerPC 440 Embedded Block begins with an industry standard IBM PowerPC 440 core. Connected to that is a powerful 5x2 master/slave crossbar switch that allows concurrent memory and I/O access. Augmenting this are 4 independent scatter-gather DMA channels for dedicated point to point connectivity. This combination of hardened, integrated features (not to mention the high-speed serial transceivers and immersed DSP slices also present in the Virtex5-FXT) enables designers to easily craft high throughput processing systems in a minimal amount of time.
We will step though a design example utilizing the latest 10.1 version of the award winning Xilinx Platform Studio embedded tool suite.
In this webcast, attendees will learn:
* Advantages of using FPGAs in high-performance embedded applications
* How the new, integrated PowerPC 440 Embedded Block enables higher bandwidth, lower latency and better system performance than a processor-only solution
* Easy steps to architect and build sophisticated processing systems using design wizards built into the Xilinx Embedded Development Kit software tools
* How software engineers can become productive immediately using the industry-standard Eclipse-based Software Development Kit
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