Emerging applications for AI will depend on System-on-Chip devices with configurable acceleration to satisfy increasingly tough performance and efficiency demands. Author: Dale Hitt, Director Strategic Marketing Development at Xilinx

Xilinx launch Alveo, a portfolio of powerful accelerator cards designed to dramatically increase performance in industry-standard servers across cloud and on-premise data centers. With Alveo, customers can expect breakthrough performance improvement at low latency when running key data center applications like real-time machine learning inference as well as video processing, genomics, and data analytics, among others. The Alveo U200 and Alveo U25...

Xilinx and SK Telecom (SKT) have jointly announced that SKT has deployed Xilinx FPGAs as their artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators in its data centre. The Xilinx Kintex UltraScale FPGAs are now running SKT’s automatic speech-recognition (ASR) application to accelerate NUGU, its voice-activated assistant. SKT achieved up to five times higher performance in ASR applications when compared to GPUs, and more importantly...

In March this year Xilinx CEO Victor Peng revealed a new strategy for the company which embraced accelerating growth in core markets including automotive. Today (June 26) that vision received a significant boost with the announcement that Xilinx and Daimler-Benz are collaborating on an in-car system using Xilinx technology for artificial intelligence (AI) processing in automotive applications.

Xilinx has announced a new product category called Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) that goes far beyond the capabilities of an FPGA. An ACAP is a highly integrated multi-core heterogeneous compute platform that can be changed at the hardware level to adapt to the needs of a wide range of applications and workloads. An ACAP’s adaptability, which can be done dynamically during operation, delivers levels of performance and perfor...

Xilinx has announced it will be showcasing its technology leadership in optical networking at OFC 2018. The company will be giving attendees a glimpse into the future of networking with the FPGA industry’s first demonstration of breakthrough 112G PAM4 electrical signaling technology for optical networks, as well as announcing the addition of 58G PAM4 transceivers to its 16nm Virtex UltraScale+ portfolio.

  Implementing a scalable, secure network system across a factory environment can result in savings in cost of implementation while increasing flexibility, write Michael Zapke, Xilinx, and embedded systems consultant, Adam Taylor

At the Computing Conference, Xilinx announced that Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, has chosen Xilinx for next-gen FPGA acceleration in their public cloud. As the largest cloud provider in China, Alibaba Cloud offers high-performance, elastic computing power to over two million customers. Based on Xilinx FPGAs, the new 'F2' instances give Alibaba Cloud customers access to acceleration for data analytics, genomics...

At Embedded Vision Europe (EVE) 2017, Xilinx demonstrates responsive and reconfigurable vision-guided intelligent systems. Through conference presentation and demonstrations, Xilinx showcases how its tools, libraries and methodologies infuse computer vision, sensor fusion, and connectivity into vision-guided intelligent systems, enabling users to innovate, differentiate, and reduce time-to-market. Visit Xilinx at stand 9 at EVE, taking place 12th...

Provider of all programmable semiconductor products, Xilinx, has announced delivery of its Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC family, an architecture integrating the RF signal chain into an SoC for 5G wireless, cable Remote-PHY, and radar. Based on 16nm UltraScale+ MPSoC architecture, the all programmable RFSoCs monolithically integrate RF data converters for up to 50-75% system power and footprint reduction, and soft-decision Forward Error Correction (SD-FE...

Xilinx has announced that its software defined development environment, SDAccel, is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) F1 instances. Amazon EC2 F1 instances provide reconfigurable, custom-hardware acceleration with 16nm Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs enabling customers to meet the demands of compute-intensive workloads like data analytics, video processing and machine learning.

Global ICT solutions provider, Xilinx, announced at HUAWEI CONNECT 2017 that Huawei has chosen high performance Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs to power their first FP1 instance as part of a new accelerated cloud service. The Huawei FPGA Accelerated Cloud Server (FACS) is a platform that enables users to develop, deploy and publish new FPGA-based services and applications on Huawei Public Cloud.

Xilinx has announced the 2017.1 release of the Vivado Design Suite HLx Editions, with broad availability of Partial Reconfiguration technology to enable dynamic field updates and increased systems integration in a broad range of applications such as wired & wireless networking, test & measurement, aerospace & defense, automotive, and data centres.

Xilinx has announced that its high-performance Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs are available in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) F1 instances. This instance provides programmable hardware acceleration with FPGAs and enables users to optimise their compute resources for the unique requirements of their workloads. While Amazon Web Service provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud, F1 instances make it easy to deploy har...

At Embedded World, Xilinx moved into a wide range of vision guided machine learning applications with the Xilinx reVISION stack. This announcement complements the recent Reconfigurable Acceleration Stack, significantly broadening the deployment of machine learning applications with Xilinx technology from the edge to the cloud.

Xilinx is demonstrating responsive and reconfigurable vision guided intelligent systems at Embedded World 2017. Conference presentations and demonstrations will show how Xilinx’s tools, libraries and methodologies infuse machine learning, computer vision, sensor fusion, and connectivity into vision guided intelligent systems. Visit the Xilinx Hall 1/1-205 at Embedded World 2017, March 14-16, at the Nuremberg Exhibition Hall in Nuremberg, Ge...

Xilinx has announced a disruptive integration and architectural breakthrough for 5G wireless with the infusion of RF-class analogue technology into its 16nm All Programmable MPSoCs.

Xilinx will display Pro AV solutions with Any-to-Any connectivity at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2017. Xilinx and its Alliance Members’ high bandwidth video processing and compression demonstrations increase innovation, differentiation, and time-to-market. Visit Xilinx at Stand 14-B132 at ISE, February 7-10, 2017, at the Amsterdam RAI. Xilinx recently shipped its first Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC video codec equipped devices, addin...

Hundreds of Xilinx's Space Grade FPGAs were deployed in the launch of the Iridium NEXT satellites. Space Grade Virtex-5QV devices provide scalability and flexibility for new applications and innovations throughout its operational life in space. Iridium NEXT is the company’s next-gen satellite constellation, replacing and enhancing its existing network of low-Earth orbit satellites spanning the entire globe.

Xilinx launched the Embedded Vision Developer Zone for software, hardware, and system developers to accelerate their productivity and build All Programmable, differentiated Embedded Vision applications. Through the Embedded Vision Developer Zone, Xilinx is providing a one-stop location to jump start the development of next-generation vision systems employing sensor fusion, advanced computer vision algorithms, and real-time object detect...