Forbes

Amazon And Xilinx Deliver New FPGA Solutions

Datacenter adoption of FPGAs for workload acceleration has been a hot topic of late—especially after Microsoft announced significant gains in its datacenter at the Hot Chips conference in August.
Network World

Xilinx unveils open source FPGA platform

New Vitis kit from FPGA vendor Xilinx will use familiar languages like C++ and Python for everything from IoT to video encoding. The Vitis unified software platform from FPGA vendor Xilinx is the ...
The Next Platform

Stacking Up Software To Drive FPGAs Into The Datacenter

Every new hardware device that offers some kind of benefit compared to legacy devices faces the task of overcoming the immense inertia that is imparted to a platform by the software that runs upon it.
TV Technology

Xilinx FPGA, SoC Devices Power Sony XVS G1 4K Production Switcher

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Xilinx has announced that Sony is using its field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and adaptive system-in-chip (SoC) devices for a range of professional AV electronics, including its ...
EDN

FPGA design and verification using Simulink

Xilinx System Generator for DSP is a MATLAB Simulink block set that facilitates system design. Targeting Xilinx FPGAs within the familiar MATLAB environment, System Generator for DSP gives you the ...
EDN

Using a Xilinx FPGA to beat your son at Guitar Hero

Editor's Note: This article is reproduced from Issue 66 of Xcell Journal with the kind permission of Xilinx. This project started as a way to hang out with my 16-year-old son, Alex. “Dad, Guitar Hero ...
Electronics Weekly

Xilinx aims to widen FPGA use in HDTV designs

Xilinx is looking to get Spartan-6 FPGAs designed into high definition digital TV systems. At last week’s CES in Las Vegas, the company introduced its first design platform aimed specifically at ...
Design-Reuse

Avago Technologies and Xilinx Streamline Design of 10 Gigabit Ethernet Systems Using FPGAs and Optical Interconnects

Completion of Interoperability Testing Between Xilinx Virtex-6 HXT FPGAs and Avago SFP+ and QSFP+ Optical Modules Gives Designers Proven Solution SAN JOSE, Calif. & SINGAPORE, Mar 8, 2011 -- Avago ...
Electronic Design

Xilinx Enters FPGA System-on-Module Arena

Xilinx’s Zynq family has been an extremely successful system-on-chip (SoC) FPGA solution. However, as with many FPGA platforms, using this flexible solution can be especially tough when it comes to ...
Design-Reuse

XILINX and UMC Develop Industry's First FPGAs to Utilize Triple-Oxide 90nm Technology

New technology used to manufacture Virtex-4 FPGAs expected to cut power consumption in half while significantly increasing performance over previous generation devices HSINCHU, Taiwan, and SAN JOSE, ...
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 ...
Forbes

Amazon's Xilinx FPGA Cloud: Why This May Be A Significant Milestone

Datacenters, especially the really big guys known as the Super 7 (Alibaba, Amazon, Baidu, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Tencent), are experiencing significant growth in key workloads that require ...