Xilinx PCI Express Starter Kit Available Print E-mail
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Written by Tracy Heffner   
Thursday, 27 April 2006 11:20
SAN JOSE – Xilinx Inc. offers what is said to be the industry's lowest cost PCI Express Starter Kit. Fully compliant with PCI Express specification v1.1, the new kit is based on the company's low-cost family of Spartan-3 FPGAs and uses the PX1011A PHY (physical layer) from Philips and an optimized PCI Express IP core from the Xilinx LogiCORE portfolio to deliver a fully compliant PCI Express implementation.
 
Reportedly, product developers can immediately deploy PCI Express capabilities for high-volume applications including add-in cards, host bus adapters, graphics cards and high-end servers.
 
"PCI Express is now becoming the de facto standard in mainstream applications and developers need a low-cost, flexible approach to implement it. With our starter kit, they get the best of both worlds – a full-featured PCI Express solution based on an extremely cost-effective and programmable platform," said Mark Aaldering, vice president of the embedded processing and IP division at Xilinx. "Now it's faster and easier for designers to deploy PCI Express-compliant products with our low-cost Spartan-3 FPGAs."
 
The starter kit consists of a reference board with a one million gate Spartan-3 FPGA, the Philips PHY, DDR memory and Flash memory. It comes with evaluation versions of the Xilinx Integrated Software Environment (ISE) Foundation and Embedded Developer Kit design software suites.
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