Semiconductor Engineering

Locking When Emulating Xtensa LX Multi-Core On A Xilinx FPGA

Today’s high-performance computing systems often require the designer to instantiate multiple CPU or DSP cores in their subsystem. However, the performance gained by using multiple CPUs comes with ...
EDN

High-Performance Video Systems in 7 Series FPGAs

High-performance video systems can be created using Xilinx AXI IP. The use of AXI Interconnect, Memory Interface Generator (MIG), and VDMA IP blocks can form the core of video systems capable of ...
Design-Reuse

Xilinx ISE Design Suite 13.2 Steps Up Designer Productivity and Brings Partial Reconfiguration to Kintex-7, Virtex-7 FPGAs

Latest release also includes improvements for Virtex-7 Quality of Results, enhancements to PlanAhead and continues delivering on Plug-and-Play IP initiative SAN JOSE, Calif., July 6, 2011-- Xilinx, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

An Easier Path To Faster C With FPGAs

For most scientists, what is inside a high-performance computing platform is a mystery. All they usually want to know is that a platform will run an advanced algorithm thrown at it. What happens when ...
Electronics Weekly

Xilinx releases design tool for 28nm 7 series FPGAs

Xilinx has released its design suite for the 28nm 7 series FPGA families including its newest Virtex-7 VX485T device. The latest ISE software release also has enhancements to the PlanAhead design and ...
SiliconIndia

Xilinx picks 28nm process for next-generation FPGAs

Bangalore: Programmable logic solutions provider Xilinx has unveiled its architecture for next-generation FPGA products that will be built on 28 nanometer high-k metal gate at TSMC and Samsung. Using ...
Electronic Design

Free Access to Soft-Core Cortex-M Designs for Xilinx FPGA Users

There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch (TANSTAAFL), but Xilinx and Arm are making it easier to use soft-core, Cortex-M1 and Cortex-M3 platforms on Xilinx FPGAs (Fig. 1). Through an enhancement to ...