A technology suite was unveiled by Xilinx at SC16, designed to enable the world’s largest cloud service providers to rapidly develop and deploy acceleration platforms. Designed for cloud scale applications, the FPGA-powered Xilinx Reconfigurable Acceleration Stack includes libraries, framework integrations, developer boards, and OpenStack support. 

Electronic Specifier Editor Joe Bush talks to Steve Glaser, SVP Corporate Strategy & Marketing at Xilinx about the most recent changes at the company that have brought about its latest product offering.

Rigorous security demands will be adressed at Xilinx's fifth annual security working group for aerospace and defense, automotive, communications, industrial IoT, and medical markets. The working group agenda will include a discussion of an industry-leading Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) based IP that will greatly enhance the hardware root of trust when deploying Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC devices. 

Get an introduction to the UltraFast Design Methodology recommendations on Board and Device Planning. This QuickTake covers the key topics of board layout recommendations, IO and clock planning, and power considerations.

The UltraFast Design Methodology is critical to your success with the Vivado Design Suite. Get an introduction to UltraFast for Vivado and learn what materials are available to help you apply the UltraFast Methodology throughout your design cycle and maximise your productivity.

Xilinx announced that its Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC family was voted the winner of the SoC and Programmable Logic category in the 2016 Innovation Awards, organised by Italian magazine Selezione di Elettronica. Presented at the Innovation Award Gala on 6th October in Milan, the award is one of 12 categories aimed at recognising the most innovative electronic and microelectronic devices.

Xilinx has announced that Baidu is utilising Xilinx FPGAs to accelerate machine learning applications in their data centres in China. The two companies are collaborating to further expand volume deployment of FPGA-based accelerated platforms.

It has been announced that Xilinx has reached a significant production milestone for its 16nm UltraScale+ portfolio ahead of schedule. Less than a year after first shipment of all devices, open order entry for production devices is available this quarter. The Xilinx UltraScale+ portfolio is the only FinFET-based programmable technology available at 14 or 16nm in the industry.

Xilinx’s UltraScale+ portfolio of FPGAs and MPSoCs deliver value far beyond a traditional process node migration by providing two to five times greater system-level performance/watt over 28nm 7 series devices.

An industrial pick and place demo highlights the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC equipped with dedicated processing engines for image processing, real-time processing and functional safety.

This video highlights the performance, power and flexibility offered by the dual-operating voltage in Xilinx 16nm Kintex UltraScale+ devices.

Expanding the company's Zynq UltraScale+ portfolio, Xilinx has announced streamlined dual-core MPSoCs offering cost and power optimised, dual application- and dual real-time processor combinations. The CG family members add scalability and a lower cost entry point into the Zynq UltraScale+ family, while addressing processing requirements across markets including IIoT, medical, wireless and aerospace & defence.

NGCodec and Xilinx will demonstrate H.265/HEVC video encoder IP at NAB 2016. The NGCodec encoder IP, built with Vivado High Level Synthesis (HLS) and Kintex UltraScale FPGAs, targets Data Centre, Broadcast and Pro A/V markets. Xilinx and NGCodec also jointly announce an investment by Xilinx in NGCodec to help drive this technology to market. NGCodec will demonstrate its H.265 video encoding technology at NAB 2016, Booth #SU9615SUL, from April 16 ...

All Programmable FPGAs and SoCs give medical device manufacturers the flexibility needed to satisfy stringent regulatory requirements and manage the design process efficiently. Aaron Behman, Director, Corporate Strategy & Marketing, Embedded Vision, Xilinx explains

Support services and training for the Xilinx SDSoC Development Environment is now being offered by Hardent, a Xilinx Authorized Training Provider (ATP) and Certified Member of the Xilinx Alliance Program. Embedded software developers will now be able to take advantage of one of the latest Xilinx tools to leverage hardware acceleration on software systems.

Xilinx will be exhibiting in Hall 1, Booth 205 at embedded world 2016 in Nuremburg, Germany, from 23rd to 25th February 2016. Conference presentations and demonstrations will highlight how Xilinx is enabling differentiated, smarter and connected applications that are shaping the future of embedded vision and industrial IoT.

Everything on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) has a unique power fingerprint. Monitoring its changes with Zynq SoC modules can help to reduce cyber attacks. In the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) new security vulnerabilities emerge faster than companies can implement countermeasures. One of the most often overlooked vulnerabilities is the IIoT’s resource constrained hardware platforms.

The growing requirement among A/V systems and equipment designers for targeted, efficient FPGA IP-cores that address common but often large and complex requirements, has resulted in Omnitek securing significant IP licence deals with key Xilinx clients for its Scalable Video Processing and Streaming DMA controller IP cores.

How a system built from 24 FPGAs, 96 antennas plus a custom 802.11 implementation enables the real-time study of Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) propagation environments. By Patrick Murphy, President, Mango Communications; Chris Dick, Chief DSP Scientist, Xilinx; Ashutosh Sabharwal, Professor, Rice University; Lin Zhong, Associate Professor, Rice University; and Clayton Shepard, Graduate Student, Rice University.

As next-gen 5G systems will be complex to design, developers should seek out devices that have built-in functionality to help make the job easier.