Defense-grade Virtex-5Q FPGAs
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The Defense-grade Virtex®-5Q family offers the largest selection of reprogrammable devices for mission critical Aerospace & Defense applications.
Virtex-5Q Family Benefits
Family at-a-glance
- LX – High performance logic
- LXT – High performance logic and connectivity
- SXT – Digital signal processing optimized
- FXT – Embedded processing optimized
High performance, largest capacity FPGAs
- Up to 330,000 Logic Cells
- 500 MHz clocking with clock management tile
- Up to 6.5Gbps high-performance RocketIO GTX transceivers
- 528 GMACs from 500 MHz DSP48E slices with 25x18 multipliers for DSP acceleration
- 192 GFLOPS single-precision and 68 GFLOPS double-precision floating point DSP
Industry’s leading defense-grade reprogrammable devices
- Ruggedized packaging for protection against ‘tin-whiskering’ and caustic solvent cleaning systems
- Bare Die available for extreme form factor requirements
- Long term support based on 20 years service to the A&D Industry
Defense-grade Virtex-5Q Family
The breadth of Defense-grade Virtex-5Q line is unique in the A&D industry with four domain-specific defense-grade FPGAs.
Defense-grade Virtex-5Q LX FPGA
High performance logic in aerospace and defense applications
Defense-grade Virtex-5Q LXT FPGA
High performance logic and connectivity in aerospace and defense applications
Defense-grade Virtex-5Q SXT FPGA
Optimized for DSP applications with intensive signal processing such as radar and electronic counter
Defense-grade Virtex-5Q FXT
Embedded processing for missiles, munitions and advanced cryptographic applications
Defense-grade Virtex-5Q FPGA Features
| Features | LX | LXT | SXT | FXT |
| ExpressFabric architecture with 6-input LUTs |  |
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| 500 MHz Clock Management Tiles (2DCM + 1PLL) | 2-6 | 1-6 | 2-6 | 2-6 |
| 500 MHz block RAM | 1,152-10,368 | 936-11,664 | 3,024-18,576 | 2,448-16,416 |
| 1.25 Gbps SelectIO™ technology | |
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| RocketIO™ GTP transceivers | -- | 4-24 | 8-24 | -- |
| RocketIO GTX transceivers | -- | -- | -- | 8-24 |
| PCI Express® endpoint blocks | -- | 1 | 1 | 1-4 |
| Ethernet Media Access Controllers | -- | 2-4 | 4 | 4-8 |
| 500 MHz DSP48E slices | 32-192 | 24-192 | 192-1,056 | 64-320 |
| PowerPC® 440 processor blocks | -- | -- | -- | 1-2 |
| System monitor and analog-to-digital converter | |
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| Sparse chevron packaging technology | |
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| Enhanced configuration and bitstream protection | |
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Defense-grade Virtex-5Q Platform Comparison Table
| System Requirements | LX | LXT | SXT | FXT |
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| High-density ASIC prototyping logic | |
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| General purpose processing | |
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| High-performance processing | |
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| Digital signal processing | |
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| Low-power serial I/O | |
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| High-performance serial I/O | |
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| System-on-chip design | |