XtremeDSP Technology Solutions

Design with the World's Highest Peformance Reconfigurable DSP Solution. Virtex-5 SX240T FPGAs with More than 580 GMACs of Fixed-point DSP Performance. Start Your High Performance DSP Design Now

The Xilinx XtremeDSP™ initiative helps you develop tailored high performance DSP solutions for aerospace and defense, digital communications, multimedia, video, and imaging industries.

High-performance configurable FPGAs for DSP designs
- With 528+ GMACS ( billions of multiply-and-accumulate operations per second) and 190+ GFLOPS (billions of single-precision, floating-point operations per second), the Virtex®-5 SX240T delivers DSP performance superior to any other reconfigurable device. It is perfect for the most demanding broadcast video, medical imaging, wireless communication, defense, and high-performance computing applications.
Development boards and Intellectual Property (IP)
Design and development tools for varied approaches to DSP
Complementary programmable logic and embedded processing functions
Strategic industry and university partnerships for training and support

Design your DSP application with XtremeDSP solutions:

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XtremeDSP Video Starter Kit - Spartan-3A DSP Edition
XtremeDSP Starter Kit - Spartan-3A DSP 1800A Edition
Virtex-5 SXT XtremeDSP Development Kit
XtremeDSP Starter Platform — Spartan-3A DSP 1800A Edition
Development tools for algorithm developers,system designers and hardware engineers
Virtex-5 SXT Development Platform
XtremeDSP Development Board — Spartan-3A DSP 3400A Edition

Development Boards and Starter Kits

Xilinx DSP development boards and starter kits provide the fastest path to implementing your systems or algorithms onto FPGAs.

XtremeDSP Video Starter Kit - Spartan-3A DSP Edition
The ideal hardware platform to evaluate Xilinx FPGA(s) in a wide range of Video and Imaging applications.

XtremeDSP Starter Kit - Spartan-3A DSP 1800A Edition
Rapidly accelerate the development of your next DSP application with this comprehensive development kit.

XtremeDSP Starter Platform — Spartan-3A DSP 1800A Edition
Evaluate your DSP applications using the versatile XtremeDSP Starter Platform powered by the Spartan™-3A DSP 1800A FPGA.

XtremeDSP Development Board — Spartan-3A DSP 3400A Edition
The perfect platform for Spartan-3A DSP design development complemented by a robust feature set that includes versatile and flexible expansion capabilities.

Virtex-5 SXT XtremeDSP Development Kit
A comprehensive development kit rapidly accelerates the development of your next DSP application.

Virtex-5 SXT ML506 XtremeDSP Development Platform
Though economically priced, the ML506 is a feature-rich DSP and high speed serial development platform utilizing the Virtex-5 DSP48E slices and RocketIO™ GTP transceivers.

Virtex-4 SX ML402 XtremeDSP Development Kit
The Virtex-4 ML402 SX Development Kit provides a great entry-level environment for developing signal processing designs.

ML402 SX35 XtremeDSP Evaluation Platform
Based on the Virtex-4 SX FPGA, this entry-level board contains a rich feature set for many applications. It is supported by industry-standard peripherals, connectors and interfaces.

Video Starter Kit V4SX35
Comprehensive Virtex-4 FPGA-based starter kit that facilitates rapid development and debugging of high-performance video processing systems.

Video Co-processing Kit XEVM642
High performance daughter card for Texas Instruments DM642 EVM platform. It allows immediate development of multi-channel, multi-format high performance digital video systems.

DSP Support and Resources

While our partners offer third party development boards, we also offer an extensive DSP resource catalog, consisting of application notes, articles, training, and support services.

XtremeDSP Device Portfolio

The XtremeDSP platform portfolio, comprised of two families – Virtex DSP and Spartan DSP, provides the range of price, performance, power efficiency, bandwidth, and I/O to satisfy a broad spectrum of application requirements within the communications, MVI (multimedia, video, and imaging), and defense industries.

Intellectual Property (IP) Cores

Xilinx includes many DSP cores with the latest version of ISE™ software; others may be purchased separately.

Table 1: Intellectual Property for DSP designs
Free with ISE Software	Available for Purchase
Filters	Video CODECs*
Building Blocks	Error Correction**
Transforms
Correlators
Trig Functions
Modulation/Demodulation
Compression

Reference Designs

Xilinx offers many DSP reference designs in target market segments. These designs are free of charge and supported through our development tools.

Wireless Communications

Development Tools

Xilinx offers a diverse array of development processes and tools that support designers with varying expertise.

System Generator for DSP allows you to define and verify complete DSP systems using industry standard tools from The MathWorks.
AccelDSP™ synthesis tool enables MATLAB®-based algorithmic synthesis for high performance DSP technologies.
Xilinx ISE™ Foundation™ software provides the industry’s most complete programmable logic design environment.
ModelSim XE-III provides a complete HDL simulation environment.
ChipScope™ Pro tool enables on-chip verification at or near operating system speed.

* The MPEG-4 part 2 encoder/decoder cores can handle scalable resolutions up to D1 (720 x 486) at 30 frames per second. A host processor interface makes these cores ideal for system-on-chip integration.

** Ideal for creating highly-flexible, concatenated codecs to support the communications market.