High-end FPGA comes with Linux

Xilinx is sampling what appears to be its most powerful FPGA (field-programmable gate array) yet. Designed for high-end communications applications such as wireless base-stations, the PowerPC 440-based Virtex-5 FXT FPGA is the fastest in the company’s 65nm Virtex-5 line, with DSP performance of over 190 GMACs.