Insight Electronics' New Virtex-E Development Kit Speeds Development Cycle for FPGA Designers; Provides Low-Cost, Easy-to-Use Platform for Prototyping, Verifying Designs.Business Editors SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 2001 Insight Electronics now offers a Virtex-E Development Kit that helps FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. designers shorten the development cycle and meet their time-to-market requirements. The new kit provides a low-cost, easy-to-use platform for prototyping and verifying designs based on Xilinx's Virtex-E family of FPGAs. The development kit includes a Virtex-E reference board based on either a 600K-gate or 300K-gate Virtex-E FPGA. The board contains power supply regulation, user configurable I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output bank voltages, an 8-character LED display, an RS-232 port, user switches and LEDs, an LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signaling) A transmission method for sending digital information. LVDS sends data over data high and data low lines rather than data and ground. test port, expansion connectors, and an in-system programmable XC18V00 series PROM. These circuits are designed to provide necessary support functions without diminishing user flexibility. In minutes, the board can be turned on, connected to a JTAG (Joint Test Action Group) An IEEE standard for boundary scan technology. See scan technology. JTAG - Joint Test Action Group or MultiLINX cable, and configured with an FPGA bit stream. Reference designs in VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) A hardware description language (HDL) used to design electronic systems at the component, board and system level. VHDL allows models to be developed at a very high level of abstraction. and Verilog are also available as examples, along with the respective bit stream files. The Xilinx Virtex-E FPGA and supporting board circuits assist FPGA designers in prototyping high-performance memory and I/O interfaces, low-voltage differential signaling Low-voltage differential signaling, or LVDS, is an electrical signaling system that can run at very high speeds over cheap, twisted-pair copper cables. It was introduced in 1994, and has since become very popular in computers, where it forms part of very high-speed networks (LVDS), and various user application-specific functions by way of an option module. The Virtex-E device's performance and density, the on-board ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. PROM's in-system programmability, and the complete high-performance LVDS support combine with Insight Reference Design Center's library of pre-configured designs to make the new development kit an ideal solution for FPGA and system designers who need a quick, flexible, and low-cost prototyping platform. In addition, Insight's Virtex-E platform is well suited for evaluating two types of embedded processor implementations -- companion processors and soft cores. Price and Availability Available now, Insight's Virtex-E Development Kit is priced from only $595, which includes the reference board, AC/DC AC/DC adj. Slang Having a bisexual orientation. [From the likening of a bisexual person to an appliance that works on either alternating or direct current. power supply adapter, and complete reference designs with VHDL and/or Verilog HDL (Hardware Description Language) A language used to describe the functions of an electronic circuit for documentation, simulation or logic synthesis (or all three). Although many proprietary HDLs have been developed, Verilog and VHDL are the major standards. source code. More information on this and other Xilinx design kits from Insight is available, toll free, at 888/488-4133, ext. 205, or on the Web at www.insight-electronics.com/solutions/kits/xilinx. About Insight Electronics Insight Electronics is the largest technical distributor of semiconductors in the Americas. With 55 divisions in the U.S., Mexico, Canada and South America and a focused line card of 25 leading semiconductor companies, Insight's sales team and field application engineers are thoroughly knowledgeable about their suppliers' products, processes and technologies. The company's value-added services, combined with its expertise in design, inventory management, logistics and use of e-business tools, ensure that customers receive the products they need, when and where they need them. Its Web address is www.insight-electronics.com. Note to Editors: Photo and data sheet available on request. Phone 562/597-8086. |
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