EDN

Tools make MCU + FPGA programming a snap

Embedded designers have implemented heterogeneous architectures since the advent of commercially viable FPGAs. Initially, FPGAs acted primarily as glue logic for an interface between processing ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Design Suite Generates Global Minimum Layout

Users of Xilinx’s Series 7 FPGAs will have a choice between two development tools. Now in its 13th revision, Xilinx’s ISE supports all of the company’s FPGAs. The Vivado Design Suite supports all of ...
Design-Reuse

Xilinx Launches Vivado Design Suite HLx Editions, Bringing Ultra High Productivity to Mainstream System & Platform Designers

Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced the Vivado® Design Suite HLx Editions, enabling a new ultra high productivity approach for designing All Programmable SoCs, FPGAs, and the creation of ...
insideHPC

Vitis Unified Software Platform to make FPGA Programming Accessible for All Developers

Since their beginnings, FPGA’s have been notorious for being hard to program. That could be changing with the new Vitis Unified Software Platform from Xilinx. Five years in the making, the Vitis ...
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 ...
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 ...
Design-Reuse

Xilinx Accelerates System Verification with Vivado Design Suite 2015.1

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- May 4, 2015 -- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced acceleration of system verification with the release of the Vivado® Design Suite 2015.1, featuring major productivity ...