Xilinx today announced the availability of the Artix-7 FPGA AC701 Evaluation Kit for developing high-performance systems that target applications requiring both low cost and low power. Equipped with an All Programmable Artix-7 200T device, the new evaluation kit has the tools, IP and reference designs needed for designers to jump start their design cycle while leveraging the industry's leading system performance per watt FPGA.

Xilinx announced today three major milestones in the execution and introduction of its next generation 20nm All Programmable Devices. The 20nm portfolio builds upon Xilinx breakthroughs proven at 28nm to provide an extra generation of system performance, lower power and programmable system integration. The 20nm portfolio will address a wide range of next generation systems and provides the most compelling programmable alternative ever to ASICs an...

Xilinx announced that its Vivado Design Suite is now available in WebPACK Edition, giving designers immediate access to a no cost, device-limited version of the industry's first SoC strength design environment. Offered with the 2012.4 release of the Vivado Design Suite, WebPACK Edition provides the same IP and system-centric design flows of the Vivado Design Suite Design edition that enables up to 4x faster time to integration and implementation ...

Xilinx today introduced new, all Programmable solutions for meeting the challenges of advanced motion control, real-time industrial networking, machine vision and a host of other next-generation industrial automation applications.

Xilinx today announced it will demonstrate advanced industrial automation applications and technology based on its Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs at SPS/IPC/DRIVES 2012 being held in Nuremberg, Germany, November 27-29, 2012.

Xilinx today announced its strategy for its 20nm portfolio, including the next-generation 8 series All Programmable FPGAs and second generation of 3D ICs and SoCs. The 20nm portfolio builds upon the breakthroughs proven at 28nm to provide an extra generation of system performance, lower power and programmable system integration.

RFEL has announced that it has extended its design service and consultancy range to include Xilinx's new Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC. This merges together a mature and powerful ARM multicore processing system with the latest, high speed, Xilinx 28nm FPGA programmable logic into a single chip.

Xilinx today announced at ARM TechCon 2012 availability of solutions that further extend the Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC's use within trusted systems that must meet strict safety and security requirements.

Xilinx today announced its fourth generation secure architecture with Information Assurance and Anti-Tamper IP core support for defense-grade 7 series FPGAs and Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs. These unique high reliability, defense-grade devices reduce the risk and cost of deploying the latest Aerospace and Defense (A&D) systems by utilizing off-the-shelf reprogrammable Xilinx FPGAs and SoCs.

Xilinx today announced its participation at ARM TechCon 2012, booth #515, October 30 - November 1, 2012. Xilinx will spotlight its All Programmable SoC hardware development platforms, IP and software solutions for ARM system developers and demonstrate how its solutions enable developers to reach new levels of programmable system integration, design productivity, security and performance.

RFEL has been approved as a member of the Xilinx Alliance Program. We have worked with RFEL for many years, said Mark Bowlby, Senior Manager of Partner and Ecosystem Alliances at Xilinx.

Xilinx has today announced the immediate availability of Vivado Design Suite 2012.3, offering for the first time new productivity enhancements for customers running the tools on multi-core processor workstations as well as new reference designs for speeding design implementation.

Xilinx today set the stage for an acceleration of the automotive industry's development and deployment of a new generation of automotive driver assistance systems (ADAS).

Xilinx today announced it will spotlight how it is laying the foundation for implementing advanced driver assistance systems in automobiles by accelerating system integration with its next-generation automotive solutions at SAE Convergence 2012, booth #909, October 16-17 at the Cobo Center.

Xilinx is proud to announce that it was been presented with an Outstanding Achievement award at the Electronic Product Design e-Legacy Awards 2012 event in London earlier this month. Xilinx was recognized in the Medical Advances category for the inventive use of FPGAs in a robot-assisted, minimally invasive surgical application for 3D vision and precise control by longtime customer, Intuitive Surgical, in its popular da Vinci.

Xilinx today announced the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Modesat Communications, a high performance wireless backhaul solutions provider with industry leading capabilities and roadmap. OEMs focusing on mobile backhaul platforms can now take advantage of Xilinx All Programmable 7 series FPGAs and Zynq-7000 SoCs combined with Modesat wireless backhaul solutions to gain market competitiveness and differentiation.

Xilinx today announced at the Intel Developer Forum the industry's first demonstration of a field programmable gate array interfacing to an Intel Sandy Bridge Xeon Processor using the QuickPath Interconnect protocol. Xilinx's QPI solution provides developers a low-latency, high-performance link to Intel Xeon Processors from Xilinx All Programmable FPGAs.

Xilinx have revealed the availability of the Kintex-7 FPGA Connectivity Kit for customers creating advanced serial I/O designs across a broad range of high bandwidth applications. The Kintex-7 FPGA Connectivity Kit dramatically increases designer productivity by including a fully validated and supported reference design that integrates an entire PCIe solution with DDR3 sub-system, including both the HDL and the complete software stack.

Xilinx today revealed its solution for designs using the Virtex-7 field programmable gate array integrated block for PCI Express x8 Gen3 with DDR3 external memory, providing developers with all the building blocks needed to get started on PCI Express Gen3-based designs immediately.

Xilinx will demonstrate at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) the world's first Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based Ethernet Audio/Video Bridging (EAVB) network implementation optimized for carrying high-speed data traffic within the automobile. As consumer expectations for higher resolution displays and graphics quality in their driver assistance, navigation and passenger entertainment systems grow, so do the associate...