The PXIe-5820 contains a Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA, which is used for system configuration, digital data movement, and digital signal processing.

The FPGA has direct connections to the ADC, DAC, PCI Express bus, DRAM, SRAM, PFI 0, digital I/O, and PXI trigger lines, allowing for custom programming using LabVIEW FPGA to meet the needs of many types of applications.

The Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA has the following resources.