Vivado

Xilinx provides the "Vivado Design Suite" with several useful tools to do all phases of the FPGA configuration. These tools have been installed on your machine. Here are some good places to start learning about Vivado.

• Instructibles Tutorial

Virtex-5 FPGA

Released in 2006, this chip is quite nice. With a different CLB architecture, better routing, and scads of resources, this chip found good commercial success.

The white papers and application notes that I've chosen to host here are examples of the sorts of documentation that you can find from Xilinx. Please don't think they are exhaustive, even to the 18-545 sets of problems. Take a look at the Product Page for a list of many, many more.

• Xilinx Product Documentation Page
• Virtex-5 FPGA User Guide
• Virtex-5 FPGA Configuration User Guide
• Virtex-5 Libraries Guide for HDL Designs
• Virtex-5 FPGA Embedded Tri-Mode Ethernet MAC User Guide
• Embedded Processor Block in Virtex-5 FPGAs
• White Paper: Memory Interfaces Made Easy
• White Paper: FIFOs in Virtex-5 FPGAs
• White Paper: Creative Uses of Block RAM
• White Paper: Xilinx FPGA Embedded Memory Advantages
• App Note: Incremental Design Reuse with Partitions