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Discover How the Complete Virtex-5 PCI Express Solution Reduces Risks for Your Application
Overview:

PCI Express® is one of the fastest growing high-speed serial interconnects. Its scalability while preserving existing investments in software make it an ideal choice for a variety of applications in communications embedded, storage, server and mobile markets.

To address design challenges such as scaling performance, meeting power budgets and reducing risk for design completion, you need a proven PCI Express solution. With the Virtex™-5 family of FPGAs, Xilinx offers a PCI-SIG® 1.1 compliant, 1-8 lane solution with built-in PCI Express end-point block.

Design with confidence using the Virtex-5 Development Kit and Spartan™-3 Development Kit along with easy-to-use software and design tools.

In this webcast, attendees will learn:
  • To identify engineering challenges in PCI Express end-point design and how to address them in Xilinx FPGAs
  • About PCI Express 1-8 lane applications and topologies and the benefits of using Xilinx FPGAs
  • How to accelerate time to market with the PCI Express solution and development kit
Who should attend:
  • ASIC and FPGA engineers
  • System architects
  • Engineering or technical managers
Presented by:

Alex Goldhammer, Connectivity Marketing Manager / System Architect
Alex is responsible for the delivery of complete solutions for serial and high-speed parallel connectivity standards such as PCI Express, Gigabit Ethernet and others. Prior to joining Xilinx, Alex held various positions in product management and applications engineering with Integrated Device Technology (IDT) where he helped define PCI Express switching products and telecommunications products and supported strategic customers in the networking, communications, mobile, storage and server markets. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz with an emphasis on microcontroller based system design.

Navneet Rao, Technical Marketing Manager
Navneet has >13 years industry experience after graduating from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. At Xilinx he specializes in High Speed Connectivity Platform solutions for FPGA / ASIC / ASSP technologies, Transceiver Technologies, Communication Platform Design, WiMAX / Switch Fabric /Router platform ASICs and Microcontrollers. Previously he led teams in architecting and designing transceivers, Switch Fabric ASICs at Mindspeed Technologies (aka Hotrail, Inc). Navneet is an active member in trade associations like FSA, RapidIO, PCI Express, and HyperTransport. He has been an invited speaker at a number of seminars with industry experts including the RapidIO Trade Association and Linley Group.


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Original Broadcast Date
Apr 03, 2007
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