FPGA company, Xilinx, announced the first shipments of its Virtex-6 FPGAs at the GlobalPress Summit in San Francisco. The FPGAs are suited for applications which require low power operation, high-speed connectivity, and high-computational performance. They are built on 40nm architecture and incorporate high-speed serial transceivers and power-saving technology for communications, audio/visual and broadcast, industrial, test and measurement, medical, and military uses. The company and selected third party vendors are developing tools and IP resources.
The family and the low-cost Spartan-6 families, were both announced in February, claiming to offer the industry's lowest cost, lowest power, largest density, highest performance, and highest system bandwidth by lowering total system cost by up to 50%, reducing total power consumption by up to 65%, and delivering a capacity of 760,000 logic cells to lower the cost and risk of system-on-chip development compared to ASICs, says the company, while delivering the levels of high-performance and low-power consumption designers expect from advanced IC manufacturing technologies.
The company announced engineering samples of the Virtex-6 LX240T device are available now with general availability of remaining devices of both families on track for delivery in the second half of this year.
