X-ES XPedite2570 with Xilinx Kintex UltraScale FPGA

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Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) has introduced the XPedite2570, a rugged FPGA processing module with a high-speed optical front-end interface. Equipped with an integrated Xilinx Kintex UltraScale FPGA, the product optimises performance for high-bandwidth embedded computing applications.

The high-performance, conduction-cooled, 3U VPX FPGA processing module is based on the Xilinx Kintex UltraScale XCKU115 FPGA. The FPGA provides good performance/watt at 20 nm, as well as high signal processing bandwidth. The FPGA packs over 1.4 M system logic cells, 5520 DSP slices and 75.9 Mb of block RAM into the one package. It also provides a straightforward upgrade path for legacy systems, offering up to 40% power savings compared to the previous generation of FPGAs.

The device is a reconfigurable FPGA resource designed to meet the demands of high-bandwidth applications such as packet processing, signal processing and DSP-intensive applications. It features 12 rugged, protocol-independent fibre-optic transceivers operating at up to 10.31 Gbps, along with 8 GB of DDR4 ECC SDRAM in two independent channels capable of up to 38 GBps aggregate bandwidth. The product has several options for high-performance backplane I/O, including a x8 Gen3 PCI Express interface, dual GTH transceivers with a maximum data rate of 16.375 Gbps, and up to 44 LVDS transceivers for user I/O.

The company’s board support package includes an FPGA Development Kit for Xilinx Vivado complete with a reference design, IP Integrator IP blocks, HDL, test benches and Linux drivers, so developers can jump right into application development without having to work through hardware integration issues.