Xilinx Solution Summary

The Spartan™-II FPGA architecture has allowed a whole new generation of low-cost high volume solutions. This, combined with a vast portfolio of Soft IP (Intellectual Property) allows Spartan-II to provides solutions significantly lower cost than ASSPs, while offering all of the time-to-market and flexibility benefits associated with programmable devices.

The PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) has become one of the most popular bus standards, and is used in a wide variety of applications including personal computers, servers, industrial computers, communication switches, routers, RAID controllers, instrumentation, as well as embedded systems. However, PCI is a significant design challenge; the stringent electrical, functional, and timing specifications are difficult to meet in any technology-and the standard continues to evolve to meet the dynamic needs of the industry.

The Xilinx LogiCORE PCI32 and LogicCORE PCI64 are 5V and 3.3V fully compliant 32-bit and 64-bit PCI interfaces for up to 66MHz designs. Together, with Spartan-II, they provide a flexible PCI solution, that is field upgradeable and able to meet both current and future requirements for the lowest possible cost. This allows replacement of many ASSPs, For example, a typical PCI design requires additional FPGAs or CPLDs for value added logic devices, all of this can be integrated with the PCI interface in a single Xilinx Spartan-II FPGA.

In addition to PCI and glue custom logic, Spartan-II also integrates and replaces numerous system functions, such as HSTL translators, PLL/DLL clock management devices, back plane logic and drivers, SSTL-3 translators and memory, all resulting in savings in cost and board space.

The LogiCORE PCI32 and the LogicCORE PCI64 cores are available today. The cores can be downloaded from the Internet via a intuitive, menu driven graphical user interface. To evaluate the available features and options, try the Demo Version of the LogiCore PCI64.

For download and registration instructions visit the PCI Lounge.

PCI Cores - Supported EDA Tools

The 64- and 32 bit Spartan-II PCI cores are supported by the following design tools.