EDN

Xilinx extends portfolio with New Spartan-6 and Virtex-6 FPGA DSP development kits

Xilinx has just announced the availability of three new development kits that further extend the ability of digital signal processing developers to easily adopt FPGAs in order to reach the highest ...
EDN

Xilinx adds FPGA-DSP-development kits

Through collaboration with AvnetElectronics Marketing, The MathWorks, TexasInstruments, and 4DSP, Xilinx has announced DSP-developmentkits for high performance, low cost, and acceleration of system ...
Electronic Design

PCs Bridge The Gap Between DSP And FPGA Designers

Typically, DSP designers are unfamiliar with FPGA design tools, and FPGA designers are unfamiliar with DSP algorithms. But when Sandia National Laboratories needed to replace an analog implementation ...
Design-Reuse

Xilinx First To 65nm With Next Generation Virtex FPGAs

New family poised to further propel FPGAs into $22B ASIC/ASSP market by delivering robust system-level solutions for high-performance DSP, embedded and serial connectivity application domains MONTEREY ...
Design-Reuse

Xilinx Adds Greater Power Efficiency to High Performance Spartan-3A DSP Platform FPGAs

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 23, 2007 – Xilinx, Inc. today announced the addition of power efficient Spartan™-3A DSP devices to its XtremeDSP™ portfolio of solutions for signal processing applications ...
HotHardware

AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled By Xilinx Tech

While they often aren’t as great as CPUs on their own, FPGAs can do a wonderful job accelerating specific tasks. Whether it's accelerating acting as a fabric for wide-scale datacenter services ...
SpaceNews

Hundreds of Xilinx Space Grade FPGAs Deployed in Launch of Iridium NEXT Satellites

Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) announced today that hundreds of its Space Grade FPGAs were deployed in the launch of the Iridium NEXT satellites. Space Grade Virtex®-5QV devices provide scalability and ...
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 ...
Business Wire

Xilinx ‘Lifts Off’ with Launch of Industry’s First 20nm Space-Grade FPGA for Satellite and Space Applications

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, today announced the industry’s first 20-nanometer (nm) space-grade FPGA, delivering ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA Design Tradeoffs Getting Tougher

FPGAs are getting larger, more complex, and significantly harder to verify and debug. In the past, FPGAs were considered a relatively quick and simple way to get to market before committing to the ...