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 ...
Forbes

Xilinx Seeks To Mainstream FPGAs In The Datacenter

Why are so many companies suddenly jumping into the datacenter accelerator game? Major chip companies such as Intel, NVIDIA and Xilinx as well as startups such as Nervana (being acquired by Intel), ...
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 ...
Design-Reuse

Bluespec, Inc. Joins the Xilinx Partner Program, Offering Drop-in Ready RISC-V Processors for Xilinx FPGAs

Framingham, MA -- May 12, 2021 -- Bluespec, Inc., a founding member of RISC-V International and supplier of RISC-V processor IP and tools, announced that they have joined the Xilinx Partner Program ...
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 ...
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 ...
SpaceNews

Hundreds of Xilinx Space Grade FPGAs Deployed in Launch of Iridium NEXT Satellites

Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) announced today that hundreds of its Space Grade FPGAs were deployed in the launch of the Iridium NEXT satellites. Space Grade Virtex®-5QV devices provide scalability and ...
The Next Platform

Xilinx Unveils xDNN FPGA Architecture for AI Inference

FPGAs might not have carved out a niche in the deep learning training space the way some might have expected but the low power, high frequency needs of AI inference fit the curve of reprogrammable ...
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 ...