Semiconductor Engineering

Locking When Emulating Xtensa LX Multi-Core On A Xilinx FPGA

Today’s high-performance computing systems often require the designer to instantiate multiple CPU or DSP cores in their subsystem. However, the performance gained by using multiple CPUs comes with ...
EDN

Exploring the Xilinx Zynq: software platform, or complex FPGA?

One of the enduring challenges of FPGAs with embedded CPUs has been the connection between the processor and the programmable fabric. A conversation at Hot Chips earlier this month with Xilinx vice ...
EDN

AXI Chip2Chip Aurora Reference Design for Real-Time Video Applications

The Xilinx® LogiCORE™ IP AXI Chip2Chip core provides bridging between systems using the Advanced eXtensible Interface (AXI) for multi-device system-on-chip solutions. This application note ...
Electronics Weekly

Truth about Xilinx love affair with AMBA

However, the main attraction of AXI4 for Xilinx is the open nature of the bus protocol which brings big benefits when it comes to expanding the variety of IP available for FPGAs. I hadn’t fully ...
Design-Reuse

Xilinx ISE Design Suite 13.2 Steps Up Designer Productivity and Brings Partial Reconfiguration to Kintex-7, Virtex-7 FPGAs

Latest release also includes improvements for Virtex-7 Quality of Results, enhancements to PlanAhead and continues delivering on Plug-and-Play IP initiative SAN JOSE, Calif., July 6, 2011-- Xilinx, ...
Electronics Weekly

Xilinx hardwires Cortex-A9 MPCore processor into FPGA

Xilinx has introduced its first FPGA design platform with an embedded ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor. Xilinx has worked with ARM for over a year to allow the programmable logic elements of the FPGA, ...