Date: 10/06/2010

Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGA reference designs from Xilinx support PCI Express

Xilinx said its Spartan(r)-6 and Virtex(r)-6 FPGA Connectivity targeted reference designs are now PCI Express compliant.

"Xilinx recognized early the importance of providing proven PCIe(r) solutions that allow customers to easily incorporate the capability without spending months of learning and evaluation," said Xilinx Director of Platform Marketing Brent Przybus. "The Spartan-6 FPGA and Virtex-6 FPGA Connectivity Targeted Design Platforms are designed to provide out-of-the-box working PCIe connectivity solutions to enable designers to quickly connect and focus on the rest of the system. The validation through compliance of these Targeted Design Platforms in addition to compliance of blocks and transceiver technology with PCIe standards reinforce our commitment to the underlying technology and making it easily accessible to customers."

In the May 25, 2010 PCI-SIG Compliance Workshop #71, Xilinx's Spartan-6 FPGA Connectivity Targeted Reference Design passed the PCI-SIG compliance and interoperability testing for PCIe 1.1 single-lane configuration with on-chip GTP serial transceivers running at 2.5 Gbps. The Virtex-6 FPGA Connectivity Targeted Reference Design passed PCI-SIG compliance and interoperability testing for PCIe 2.0 x4-lane Gen2 configuration with the GTX Serial transceivers running at 5 Gbps.