Spartan 6 fpga module with external PCI expres
Opal Kelly has announced a compact fpga integration module with external PCI Express, which is said to provide faster time to market for high speed, low latency applications.
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The XEM6110 is based on the Xilinx Spartan 6 and has been designed to deliver five times faster transfer rates compared to USB, as well as lower latency. The 75 x 50mm module features 1Gbit (64M x 16bit) DDR2 sdram, high efficiency switching power supplies, two high density 0.8mm expansion connectors, and a low jitter 100MHz oscillator. The external PCI Express interface is said to enable fast configuration downloads without requiring a pc reboot and pc to fpga communication.