High-performance FPGAs make magazine shortlist

The Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT family of high-performance 65nm FPGAs has been selected from a field of hundreds as a finalist in EDN Magazine's 17th Annual Innovation Award Competition.

The Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT family of high-performance 65nm FPGAs has been selected from a field of hundreds as a finalist in EDN Magazine's 17th Annual Innovation Award Competition.

The design team responsible for the development of this revolutionary product has also been named as Innovator of the Year finalists.

Instituted in 1990, the Innovation Awards honour the people, products and technologies that have shaped the semiconductor industry over the year.

Over the next few weeks, EDN's worldwide audience will use an online ballot to select winners from among the finalists.

EDN's editorial staff and Editorial Advisory Board will also take part in determining final winners.

Nominees for the Innovator of the Year category must have demonstrated innovation that resulted in a significant advance in technology and/or product development during the past 12 months.

Key innovations by the Xilinx Virtex-5 design team in process technology, architecture and product development methodology have led to unprecedented performance and density gains - at speeds on average 30% higher and 65% increased capacity over previous generation 90nm FPGAs - while reducing dynamic power consumption by 35%, maintaining the same low static power and consuming 45% less area.

As a finalist in the Innovation of the Year category, the Virtex-5 LXT platform, shipping since September 2006, is the first FPGA to deliver a hard-coded PCI Express endpoint together with trimode Ethernet media access controller (MAC) blocks.

The Virtex-5 LXT platform also features the industry's lowest power 65nm transceiver, typically consuming less than 100mW per channel at 3.2Gbit/s.

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