Avnet Electronics Marketing Asia, an operating group of Avnet Inc., announced the release of three new Xilinx FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) development kits: two Virtex-4 PCI Express Kits and a Virtex-5 LX Kit. All three kits provide development platforms for designing and verifying applications and are available now for purchase.
The Xilinx Virtex-4 FX PCI Express Development Kit is offered with the FX60 or FX100 device. The system board provides high-speed serial interfaces to the on-chip RocketIO multi-gigabit transceivers, including an 8-lane PCI Express interface. The board also supports the on-chip PowerPC processor with DDR and flash memories, a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port, and CPU debug and trace ports.
The Virtex-5 LX Development Kit is based on the LX50 device, and enables designers to prototype high-performance designs for the newest family of Xilinx FPGAs.
The three system boards include a full EXP expansion slot for flexibility and versatility. The EXP specification was developed by Avnet engineers for I/O requirements of FPGA development boards. EXP modules can be added to the board, giving designers the ability to customize their hardware development environment with application specific daughter cards. The EXP connectors provide easy access to 168 high-performance FPGA I/O signals.
C.C. Lim, vice president of marketing, Avnet Electronics Marketing Asia, said, "Avnet is dedicated to offering proactive design support for our Xilinx customers in Asia. With the introduction of the Virtex-4 FX PCI Express Development Kit and the Virtex-5 LX Evaluation Kit, we will continue to provide cost-effective and useful tools for customers to design with Xilinx devices. The advanced features of these boards, combined with our value-added services including Avnet’s SpeedWay workshops, the reference design information from Avnet's web site and local field application engineering support, will expedite time-to-market for our customers."
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