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Xilinx Approaches 90-nanometre Goal
News Xilinx has 90-nanometre chips in hand. Xilinx is one of the first few chipmakers to start down the road toward the chipmaking milestone -- mass production of the 90-nanometre chip. Xilinx appears to be on track to mass producing the new...
[April 1, 2003, 10:55]
Xilinx High Volume Programmable Logic Applications In Internet Audio Players
White Papers This paper provides an overview of Internet audio technologies and how Xilinx high-volume programmable devices can be used to overcome some of the significant challenges facing the designers of portable players.
[January 30, 2004, 6:35]
Xilinx At Work In Set-Top Boxes
White Papers This White Paper gives an overview of different set-top box technologies and how Xilinx high volume programmable devices can be used to implement complex system level glue in a variety of set-top box designs.
[January 30, 2004, 6:30]
Xilinx Licenses Communications Chip Design
News API NetWorks, a company that sells chip designs enabling use of the high-speed HyperTransport connection technology developed by AMD, has licensed its design to chipmaker Xilinx, the companies are scheduled to announce on Monday.
[August 13, 2001, 11:11]
Using Xilinx FPGAs To Design Custom Digital Signal Processing Devices
White Papers Technological advancements by Xilinx in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in the past 10 years have opened new paths for DSP design engineers. When the design is demanding more than 100 MIPS, time-to-market critical or design adaptability is...
[March 17, 2004, 23:00]
Running Linux On A Xilinx XUP Board
White Papers A tutorial for booting a fully functional operating system based on the Linux 2.4 kernel on a Xilinx University Program Virtex II-Pro based development board is presented. Furthermore, this paper describes a reconfigurable hardware accelerator that...
[May 18, 2007, 1:00]
Xilinx Solutions For SONET/SDH Equipment
White Papers Data traffic over SONET/SDH networks has increased dramatically with the proliferation of the Internet and enterprise networks. As a result, equipment traditionally supporting only voice traffic such as add/drop multiplexers and digital cross...
[November 2, 2004, 2:00]
IBM Reaches Chip Milestone
News The company will announce that it has begun work on its first 90 nanometre chip, a "field programmable gate array" processor that Big Blue will manufacture for chip designer Xilinx. IBM, which recently received the design specifications for the...
[December 16, 2002, 7:31]
The Day Ahead: There's A Bright Side To Plunging Expectations
News Xilinx lowered its sales forecasts, and shares held steady as analysts reiterated "buy" ratings. Xilinx's warning wasn't as bad as Altera's. If Xilinx would have warned first, its shares would have been whacked.
[December 11, 2000, 12:33]
IBM Plans $2.5bn Charge, Layoffs
News Currently it manufactures chips for Xilinx, but Xilinx licensed IBM's PowerPC processor. As part of those services -- announced, along with the job cuts, on Tuesday -- IBM will give customers access to technology the company previously held close...
[June 5, 2002, 8:47]
A Reconfigurable FPGA-Based Readback Signal Generator For Hard-Drive Read Channel Simulator
White Papers A hard disk readback signal generator designed to provide noise-corrupted signals to a channel simulator has been implemented on a Xilinx Virtex E FPGA device. The generator simulates pulses sensed by read heads in hard drives.
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
An FPGA Dynamically Reconfigurable Framework For Modular Robotics
White Papers Nowadays, technological developments make possible to do it on Xilinx FPGAs, but setting up a dynamically reconfigurable system remains a painful and complicated task. Dynamic Reconfiguration has always constituted a challenge for embedded systems...
[January 18, 2006, 0:01]
High-Performance Spartan-II 8-bit Microcontroller Solution
White Papers The Xilinx Spartan-II 8-bit microcontroller solution is ideal for applications in which cost and integration within a system is critical. High-performance 8-bit microcontrollers are deployed in a number of applications such as data networking...
[January 30, 2004, 5:24]
Implementation Of An IEEE 802.11a Synchronizer
White Papers The algorithms are implemented as a floating-point model in Matlab using Simulink and as a synthesizable Fixed-Point Model (FPGA) using Xilinx System Generator. This paper applies some of the work that has been conducted regarding timing...
[January 18, 2006, 0:01]
Efficient Hardware Data Mining With The Apriori Algorithm On FPGAs
White Papers Their array architecture implementation on a Xilinx Virtex-II Pro 100 provides a performance improvement that can be orders of magnitude faster than the state-of-the-art software implementations. The Apriori algorithm is a popular correlation-based...
[October 7, 2008, 0:00]
Data Encryption Using DES/Triple-DES Functionality In Spartan-II FPGAs
White Papers There is an immense value in integrating critical IP solutions like Discrete Cosine Transform/Inverse DCT (DCT/IDCT) and DES within a Xilinx FPGA to enhance performance and security in communication applications.
[January 30, 2004, 5:31]
Intel Unveils Twinned Connections
News In one step, the chipmaker will let two companies, Xilinx and Altera, plug their special-purpose chips into the front-side bus that Intel currently uses to connect its own processors to other processors, memory and all other computing subsystems.
[September 28, 2006, 9:44]
0.1 Terabit/s Ethernet...
Blog The new technology behind this revolves around a single chip, a packet marshalling engine built from an off-the-shelf Xilinx field programmable gate array (FPGA) configured to run algorithms from the University of California at Santa Clara.
[November 15, 2006, 22:07]
IBM Speeds Up Custom-chip Service
News IBM already works with big-name chipmakers, such as Sony and AMD, and manufactures chips for Nvidia, Qualcomm and Xilinx. IBM plans to kick off a streamlined custom chipmaking service on Monday, hoping to drum up more profits -- and save customers...
[June 16, 2003, 7:50]
Green Supercomputer Unveiled In Edinburgh
News It uses FPGA technology from Xilinx. A supercomputer 10 times more energy efficient and up to 300 times faster than its traditional equivalents has been unveiled in Edinburgh. Called Maxwell, the computer has been built at the University of...
[March 21, 2007, 9:22]
