Using Xilinx Virtex-4 DSP48 Components with the Synplify Pro® Software

DSP designers are increasingly targeting FPGAs for implementation of their high-performance DSP designs. Virtex-4 FPGAs can achieve an order of magnitude performance boost over standard DSP chips through efficient and parallel implementation of DSP functions. These special DSP optimizations allow designers to capture the behavior needed for their DSP algorithms without worrying about the specific implementation in hardware and automatically produce highly optimized, technology independent implementation RTL ready for synthesis using Synplicity’s Synplify Pro software.

This application note will give you a general understanding of the DSP48 component and show you how to leverage Synplicity’s Synplify Pro product to optimize your design.

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