Engineers at Nallatech in Cumberland, England, recently announced the completion of the Virtex-4 XtremeDSP Development Kit, which will enable designers to immediately leverage Xilinx’s digital signal processing (DSP) Virtex-4 FPGAs in new advanced field programmable gate array (FPGA) designs in mission-critical applications such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The kit streamlines the completion of highly integrated and flexible solutions based on Virtex-4 for wide multichannel processing or chip-rate functions in 3G wireless, video encoding and decoding including H.264 or MPEG-4, processing for radar beam forming, and other DSP-intensive applications requiring extremely wide or highly parallel processing capabilities. For more information go online at