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 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]
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]
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]
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]
FIR HDL Writer
Downloads Clock rates in excess of 300Mhz have been observed with Stratix II and Virtex IV devices (using Quartus and ISE synthesis and place and route tools) from Altera and Xilinx. FIR HDL Writer is an EDA tool which generates FIR filters in clear text...
[May 30, 2007, 8:00]
Embedded Processor Based Built-in Self-Test and Diagnosis of Logic and Memory Resources in FPGAs
White Papers As a case study, they present the application to test and diagnose logic and memory resources in the Xilinx Virtex-4 series FPGA. This paper presents an embedded processor based approach for Built-In Self-Test (BIST) and diagnosis of programmable...
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
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]
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]
Open-source graphics card available for pre-order
News It is based on a Xilinx Spartan-3 XC3S4000 field-programmable gate array (FPGA). After four years of development, the Open Graphics Project last week made available for pre-order its first open-source graphics card.
[May 27, 2008, 16:57]
Ethernet alliance formed
News Founding members of the Ethernet Alliance are 3Com, ADC, Agere Systems, AMCC, Aquantia, Broadcom, Force10 Networks, Foundry Networks, Intel, Lawrence Berkeley Labs, Pioneer, Quake Technologies, Samsung, Sun, Tehuti Networks, Tyco Electronics, the...
[January 11, 2006, 15:05]
IBM to produce Nvidia chips
News IBM also builds chips for mobile phone makers Qualcomm and Xilinx. The chipmaker on Wednesday will announce an agreement in which IBM will serve as an additional manufacturer for the GeForce family of graphics chips.
[March 26, 2003, 7:39]
Analyst sees end of chip stock woes
News Joseph, whose upgrades lifted the likes of Micron Technology, Intel, Xilinx and Applied Micro Circuits to double-digit gains in early afternoon trading, predicted the bottom for battered chip stocks is "only months away", though he offered very...
[April 12, 2001, 11:48]
Comdex 2001: Chipmakers embrace HyperTransport standard
News Acer Laboratories, Altera, AMCC, Fast-Chip, Flow Engines, GDA Technologies, Josipa Company, LEDA Systems, Marvell Semiconductor, Nokia, Spinnaker Networks, Teradyne, Xilinx and 0-In Design Automation have all licensed the technology and agreed to...
[November 13, 2001, 16:43]
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]
