“Xilinx and Mentor Graphics worked together to achieve outstanding quality of results for the Virtex-5 TXT platform,” stated Tom Feist, senior marketing director for the Xilinx ISE Design Suite. “Several mutual customers use Precision’s easy-to-use push-button physical synthesis solution for achieving timing closure, and this capability complements our physical optimizations to help our customers meet tight timing constraints in their designs.”
The new Virtex-5 TXT FPGA platform delivers more 6.5 Gbps GTX transceivers than any other FPGA to enable the development of 40G and 100G systems targeting networking, telecom, audio/video broadcast and medical imaging. By providing a single, programmable chip solution for applications such as 100Gigabit Ethernet MAC to Interlaken bridging, the Virtex-5 TXT FPGA platform addresses the needs of the fledgling 100Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) market by enabling equipment manufacturers to keep pace with the explosive growth in bandwidth requirements while minimizing power, board and component costs.
“Precision Synthesis provides a proven FPGA design synthesis environment that is well integrated with ISE Design Suite delivering a high quality of results to our mutual customers targeting the TXT FPGA platform,” said Daniel Platzker, product line director, Mentor Graphics Design and Synthesis Division.
The Precision Synthesis product line forms the centerpiece of Mentor Graphics FPGA flow—the industry’s most comprehensive solution for FPGA design. The Precision RTL Plus product offers breakthrough capabilities such as physical synthesis which provides industry-leading quality of results, automatic incremental synthesis to reduce the impact of late design cycle changes, and patent-pending functionality which enables the efficient utilization of architectural blocks.
With the most comprehensive mixed-language support including SystemVerilog, advanced support for application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) prototyping (support for DesignWare® libraries, SDC constraints, gated-clock handling, etc.), plus advanced implementation and optimization techniques such as automatic mapping and inferencing of dedicated DSP and RAM blocks, the Precision Synthesis product is uniquely suited to handle today’s high-end FPGAs. In addition, the Precision Synthesis products features an award-winning design analysis capability, allowing designers to cross-probe between multiple views as well as perform interactive static timing for rapid “what-if” analyses.
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