Design News

New Xilinx Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGA Connectivity Development Kits Include Northwest Logic DMA Engine IP

SOFTWARE/HARDWARE: Xilinx Inc. recently announced the availability of the new Xilinx ® Virtex ®-6 and Spartan ®-6 FPGA Connectivity Development Kits that provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use, 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 ...
EDN

Exploring the Xilinx Zynq: software platform, or complex FPGA?

One of the enduring challenges of FPGAs with embedded CPUs has been the connection between the processor and the programmable fabric. A conversation at Hot Chips earlier this month with Xilinx vice ...
The Next Platform

The CryptoManager FPGA connection

Earlier this week, Rambus signed a license agreement with Xilinx that covers Rambus’ patented memory controller, SerDes and security technologies. In addition, the two companies agreed to evaluate ...
Network World

FPGA maker Xilinx aims range of software-programmable chips at data centers

As data centers are called upon to handle an explosion of unstructured data fed into a variety of cutting-edge applications, the future for FPGAs looks bright. That’s because FPGAs, or field ...
Forbes

Amazon AWS And Xilinx: A Progress Report

Meeting with Xilinx and its partners this week at Amazon AWS re:Invent gave me a chance to understand where FPGAs are making progress, and what is preventing them from making more. If you recall, the ...
Forbes

Xilinx To Compete With Intel, NVIDIA On Datacenter AI Acceleration

(This post was corrected at 6pm CDT on 10/16/2018 to reflect NVIDIA's membership in ONNX.) In addition, Xilinx announced its new “Versal” advanced computing acceleration platform (ACAP) architecture, ...
Design-Reuse

Design and Implementation of an OCP-IP Compliant 64-Node Butterfly Network on Chip on Multi-FPGA

There is a growing demand of high-performance computing systems to cope with increasing data size and amount of arithmetic operation in various scientific computations. On top of this, several ...
Electronics Weekly

Software addresses FPGA connection delay issues

Physical synthesis software aimed at FPGA users has been unveiled by Mentor Graphics to address the challenge of designing with huge devices. Called Precision Physical Synthesis, the tool addresses ...
Computerworld

FPGA maker Xilinx aims new software programmable chips at data centers

As data centers are called upon to handle an explosion of unstructured data fed into a variety of cutting-edge applications, the future for FPGAs looks bright. That’s because FPGAs, or field ...
The Next Platform

The CryptoManager FPGA connection

Earlier this week, Rambus signed a license agreement with Xilinx that covers Rambus’ patented memory controller, SerDes and security technologies. In addition, the two companies agreed to evaluate ...