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Xilinx IP Cores

The Xilinx website has a comprehensive database of Xilinx LogiCORE and third-party AllianceCORE verified and tested cores. To find them, visit the Xilinx IP Center at www.xilinx.com/ipcenter.

The CORE Generator tool from Xilinx delivers highly optimized cores compatible with standard design methodologies for Xilinx FPGAs.

This easy-to-use tool generates flexible, high-performance cores with a high degree of predictability. You can also download future core offerings from the Xilinx website.

The CORE Generator tool is provided as part of Xilinx Foundation ISE software.

Web-Based Information Guide

The “Products and Services” and “End Markets” sections on the Xilinx website give you information about where and how Xilinx devices can be used in end applications and markets.

The data ranges from application notes, white papers, and industry information to reference designs and example code.

These pages are updated regularly, making them ideal to bookmark for research purposes or for downloading code or design solutions to shorten your design time to market.

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The sections within the “Products and Services” page on the Xilinx website

are:

FIGURE 2-46: PRODUCTS AND SERVICES WEBSITE

Let’s look at each of these web-based sections.

END MARKETS

The eSP web portal is located within the “End Markets” section on the Xilinx website. It is the industry's first web portal dedicated to providing comprehensive solutions that accelerate product development.

To make it as easy as possible, we've provided a choice for locating material. You can select a specific market solution or a broad-reaching technology from two drop-down menus: “Network Solutions” or “Technologies.”

In “Market Solutions,” choose from:

•Metro Access Networks

•Automotive

•Broadband

•Industrial

•Medical and Scientific

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•Test and Measurement

•Digital Video Technologies (DVT)

•Home Networking

•Wireless Networks.

In the “Technologies” section, choose from:

•Wired Networks

•Consumer

•Additional Topics (such as digital video imaging and capture and editing).

The site was designed to decrease the time spent in the pre-design phase. This phase, which increasingly has become the designers’ Achilles’ heel, involves visiting seminars, learning new standards, assimilating the data, analyzing market trends, and more.

The eSP web portal saves time by proving up-to-date information about emerging standards and protocols, how and where they are used, impartial information about which one is best for your application, and pre-tested reference designs that can be purchased and used.

The eSP web portal (www.xilinx.com/esp) includes:

•White Papers

•System Diagrams

•Ask the Experts

•Glossary of Terms

•System Solutions Boards/reference design boards

•eSP News

•Industry Events

•Tutorials on the latest standards and protocols.

SILICON PRODUCTS AND SOLUTIONS

These web pages allow you to gain in-depth details on Xilinx silicon products, including FPGAs (Virtex and Spartan), CPLDs (CoolRunner and XC9500) and RocketPHY™ transceivers. Data sheets, user guides, FAQs, white papers, and application notes are also available.

DESIGN RESOURCES

This section details the selection of Xilinx and third-party design software. From here, you can also go to the IP Center for details about development boards and platforms.

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SYSTEM RESOURCES

DSP Central

These web pages detail the XtremeDSP solutions that deliver the performance and flexibility needed to quickly build complex, high-performance DSP systems.

Driven by the broadband revolution and explosive growth in wireless products, the demand for digital signal processing featuring extreme performance and great flexibility is growing faster than what conventional DSP can deliver.

The rapid convergence of different technology segments – 3G and 4G wireless communication systems, high-bandwidth networking, real-time video broadcasting, and high-performance computing systems – is producing what analysts call ”The beginning of a new information technology era.”

Xilinx, the recognized leader in programmable logic solutions, is well established in these technology segments and uniquely positioned to address this new DSP paradigm now.

The XtremeDSP solution can give you computing capabilities approaching 1 Tera MAC/s – more than 100 times faster than conventional DSP solutions.

Using our comprehensive line of industry-leading FPGAs, easy-to-use tools, and optimized algorithms, along with the most comprehensive technical support, services, and third-party programs in the industry, you’ll have the confidence to tackle even the most challenging applications using the Xilinx XtremeDSP tool.

DSP Central provides information that will enable you to achieve the maximum benefit from Xilinx DSP solutions. This section provides details and design information in the following areas:

Algorithms/Cores

In this comprehensive listing of intellectual property, you can search for algorithms by type:

•DSP Cores

•Communication and Networking

•Video/Image Processing

•IP Updates.

XILINX ONLINE (IRL)

You can access and upgrade hardware from your desktop anywhere in the world with the Xilinx IRL capability.

The mission of the Xilinx Online program is to enable, identify, and promote any Xilinx programmable system that is connected to a network that can

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