Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: PCIe know-how?

[Brian Padalino]

On 3/4/07, Eric Blossom <address@hidden> wrote:
> The Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT's and SXT's have (or will have) hard PCIe
> endpoint blocks.  This puts most of endpoint IP into dedicated silicon.
>
>
>                   slices    DSP48 blocks  10/100/1000    Rocket IO
>                             550 MHz       ethernet MACs
>   XC5VSX35T       5,400     192           4               8
>   XC5VSX50T       8,160     288           4              12
>   XC5VSX95T      14,720     640           4              16
>
>
> I'm sure they're not cheap, but that's a lot of DSP resources ;)

You've got that right - they're well into a couple hundred dollars
each.  Wishful thinking, and I do salivate over those big FPGA's - but
for a home project they seem pretty impractical (unfortunately) :(

> http://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon_solutions/fpgas/virtex/virtex5/Virtex-5_LX_LXT_SXT_Product_Table.pdf
>
> Eric

Brian