EDN

IBM, Xilinx shun mask programming

In recent years, a number of chipmakers have answered customers' calls to reduce development costs with some kind of fancy mask-programmable part. But IBM Microelectronics and Xilinx Inc. have so far ...
Business Wire

Opal Kelly Announces XEM8320 FPGA Development Platform for Xilinx FPGAs

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Opal Kelly, a leading producer of powerful Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) modules that provide essential device-to-computer interconnect, today announced the ...
Electronic Design

Xilinx Pitches Open-Source Framework for Heterogeneous Programming

Xilinx is known for high-performance FPGAs. The company delivered impressive development tools for hardware and software that takes advantage of its FPGA and SoC platforms, such as the Vivado Design ...
EDN

IBM, Xilinx nix idea of mask programming

San Jose, Calif. – In recent years, more than a few chip vendors have answered customers' calls to reduce development costs with some kind of fancy mask-programmable part. But IBM Microelectronics and ...
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 ...
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 ...
ZDNet

To proliferate AI tasks, a starter kit from Xilinx, little programming required

In the hotly contested field of "edge" artificial intelligence, systems and chip makers are coming up with ways to get their customers to market without months or years of machine learning development ...
The Next Platform

FPGA Maker Xilinx Says the Future of Computing is ACAP

The field programmable gate space is heating up with new use cases driven by everything from emerging network, IoT, and application acceleration trends. Keeping ahead of the curve means expanding on ...
Forbes

Xilinx Reveals More Everest Details

Xilinx, the market share leader in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), presented five sessions at this week’s HotChips ’18 conference in Cupertino, California. These included CEO Victor Peng’s ...
SpaceNews

Xilinx Radiation Hardened Virtex FPGAS Shipping To JPL Mars Mission And Other Space Programs

XLNX announced today that it has begun shipment of the one-million system-gate radiation hardened Virtex® FPGAs, the XQVR1000(TM) device, to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other customers for ...
Forbes

Xilinx FPGAs: The Chip Behind Alibaba's Singles Day

Most Americans consider Black Friday to be the biggest shopping extravaganza of the year. No doubt it is huge, with an estimated $5B in all U.S. retail sales (online and in-store) on Black Friday 2017 ...
ZDNet

Programmable chip maker Xilinx acquires C/C++ programming tool provider Silexica

Xilinx, one of the world's biggest programmable chipmakers, announced a new deal to acquire C/C++ programming and analysis tool provider Silexica. Xilinx is still in the midst of its own acquisition ...