Xilinx introduced the ISE Design Suite 12 software to enable breakthrough optimizations for power and cost with greater design productivity. For the first time, ISE design tools deliver 'intelligent' clock-gating technology that reduces dynamic power consumption by as much as 30 percent. The new suite also provides advances in timing-driven design preservation, AMBA 4 AXI4-compliant IP support for plug-and-play design, and an intuitive design fl...

Xilinx Inc. today introduced the architecture for a new Extensible Processing Platform that will deliver unrivaled levels of system performance, flexibility and integration to developers of a wide variety of embedded systems. The ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor-based platform enables system architects and embedded software developers to apply a combination of serial and parallel processing to address the challenging system requirements presented b...

Xilinx K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of the world's leading supplier of programmable platforms, Xilinx, Inc., andHitachi Information & Communication Engineering, Ltd., today announced a new LogicBench series. LogicBench is proven system-level design verification platform. The new series uses Xilinx Virtex-6 LX760, the fastest and highest performance FPGA, and other Virtex-6 FPGA sub-families. Hitachi Information & Communication Engineering also l...

Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX), today announced that NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. has adopted the Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA family for three models of its DLP Cinema Projectors.

Xilinx today announced the addition of Doulos (Morgan Hill, Calif.) to the company's network of Authorized Training Provider (ATP) members in North America. Doulos, a leader in system-on-chip and field programmable gate array (FPGA) design and verification training solutions, has been an ATP member since 2004, providing services to Xilinx customers in Ireland and the U.K.

Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX), the world's leading provider of programmable solutions, is applauded for its role in developing QPACE; a bespoke supercomputer developed to unlock the mysteries of Quantum Chromodynamics. The predominant simulation process used to model Quantum Chromodynamics is known as Lattice QCD and is only possible using high-powered, highly parallel supercomputers. Xilinx(R) Virtex(R)-5 LX110T FPGAs were selected to provide core...

Xilinx today announced it will demonstrate the latest breakthrough 40-Gigabit Optical Transport Network (OTN) developments for integrated multiplexer/transponder (muxponder) applications at the 2010 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition. The demonstration combines proven partial reconfiguration technology from Xilinx with OTN IP solutions from Avalon Microelectronics Inc. to significantly reduce downtime and lower the bill of mate...

At Embedded World 2010, Xilinx, Inc. introduced the Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA Industrial Imaging Targeted Design Platform to accelerate development of high-performance video processing applications for low-cost, low-power industrial imaging systems. Industrial equipment OEMs can now rapidly build and evaluate reprogrammable imaging solutions with high-definition image resolutions, specialized image sensor interfaces, and intelligent video and advanc...

At Embedded World 2010, Xilinx and Inova Semiconductors introduced an Automotive Pixel Link (APIX(R)) IP solution for the Xilinx(R) Automotive (XA) family of low-cost Spartan(R)-6 field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The configurable core supports multiple high-bandwidth video and communications links in a single device to transfer high-quality, real-time video from two or more cameras or processing units to in-vehicle displays. This highly in...

Xilinx, Inc introduced the Xilinx Automotive (XA) family of Spartan(R)-6 field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) optimized for applications requiring high-speed connectivity and high-resolution video performance. These automotive-qualified devices provide the flexibility, scalability, and integration needed to reduce the system cost of automotive infotainment, driver assistance, driver information, and in-vehicle networking products.

Xilinx Inc. today announced the foundation for a next-generation of Xilinx programmable platforms that will give system designers FPGAs that consume half the power at twice the capacity than previously possible for addressing the Programmable Imperative. Xilinx is maximizing the value of the 28nm technology node by choosing a high-performance, low-power process technology, a common scalable architecture across product ranges, and tool innovations...

Xilinx Inc today announced the expansion of its Authorized Training Provider (ATP) program to South America with the addition of Anacom in Brazil. The company joins a global network of 28 Authorized Training Providers in Africa and the Middle East, Asia Pacific, the Americas, Europe, and Japan.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a global leader in advanced semiconductor technology and Xilinx Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX), the world's leading provider of programmable platforms, announced today that Xilinx's Spartan®-6 FPGA family has attained full production qualification on 45-nanometer (nm) process of Samsung Electronics' Foundry business (Samsung Foundry). This advanced process node, coupled with state of the art FPGA design, produces an optimal b...

The annual IEC DesignVision Awards program recognizes new technologies, applications, products and services that are judged to be the most unique and beneficial to the industry and was selected by a panel of judges comprised from members of the DesignCon 2010 Technical Program Committee. The committee consists of industry experts in the semiconductor and electronic design engineering community. The domain-specific approach of the ISE Design Suite...

Xilinx, Inc. announced the first shipments and availability of its Virtex-6 LX760 device. As the industry's largest FPGA available for delivery with immediate design tool support, the Virtex-6 LX760 device enables Xilinx customers who need raw logic density and industry-leading I/O performance to get started on their projects today using the Xilinx ISE Design Suite 11.4.

Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced record third quarter fiscal 2010 sales of $513.3 million, up 24% sequentially and up 12% from the third quarter of the prior fiscal year. Third quarter net income was $106.9 million, or $0.38 per diluted share, including previously announced restructuring charges totaling $5.5 million, or approximately $0.02 per diluted share. On a year over year basis, third quarter net income and diluted earnings per ...

UMC and Xilinx Inc. today announced they have fully qualified the Virtex-6 FPGA family on the foundry's high- performance 40nm logic process. The qualification is the result of the close work between engineering teams from both companies to further enhance yield, reliability and cycle time. The full qualification of the Virtex-6 family signifies the transition to 40nm volume production following UMC's first shipments of the devices in March 2009.

Xilinx has announced the availability of the new Xilinx® Virtex®-6 and Spartan®-6 FPGA Connectivity Development Kits that provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use, and hardware validated development environment. A key component of the new kits is the Connectivity Targeted Reference Designs that contain Northwest Logic's high-performance, scatter-gather DMA Engine IP. The Northwest Logic® DMA Engine IP, in combination with the other elements of th...

Xilinx has announced six new development kits as part of its Targeted Design Platforms for enabling developers to focus on innovation and differentiation when designing with FPGAs. These development platforms for the Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 families significantly shorten the time it takes to reach optimal levels of system performance, while ensuring low levels of power consumption during system-on-chip (SoC) development. The new kits target embedd...

Avnet, Texas Instruments and Xilinx have launched a new multi-part, videocast series emphasizing TI’s Fusion Digital Power solutions for the latest generation of Xilinx fieldprogrammable gate arrays (FPGAs). This new Analog eLab Videocast series features engineering subject matter experts from Avnet, TI and Xilinx discussing a myriad of design topics, in a round-robin format, and utilizing TI’s eLab video cast format.