What are some of the new markets and applications that Virtex-E family will enable for Xilinx?
Virtex-E devices will find homes in the traditional strong markets for FPGAs: networking, telecommunication, high-end computing, industrial and wireless markets. These are key markets for Virtex-E devices since the time to market and flexibility advantages of FPGAs have always been valued. Within these strong markets, Virtex-E devices offer new high performance/bandwidth application possibilities for FPGAs based on its enhanced I/O and memory performance. The Virtex-E family is already being considered for applications that previously required ASICs. Some examples are SONET data stream processing for OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, and OC-192 standards, main processing engine for massively parallel compute network, variety of protocol controllers and switch matrix for next generation network equipment, and backplane controllers for ultra high speed board to board communication.
