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EIZO NANAO Designs Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs into Newest High-Definition LCD Home Entertainment Monitors

ZTE Designs Virtex-6 FPGAs Into IP Transport Network Platform, Enabling 100G Ethernet Service Deployment

Xilinx Continues Record Fast 7 Series FPGA Product Rollout, Secures Over 200 Design Wins & Ships Thousands of Devices Worldwide

Kintex™-7 used for newest line of Dome S10 ten-megapixel medical displays for mammography.

Micro/sys, Inc. Uses Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA to Build Integrated FPGA & ARM Cortex-A8 Processor Single-Board Computer

Integration of Spartan®-6 FPGA allows OEMs to adapt single board computer to manage wide range of I/O configurations to enhance flexibility, reduce time-to-market, design and production costs.

SIGMA Corp. Designs Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs Into Newest Line of SIGMA SD1 High-Performance Digital Cameras

Spartan-6 FPGAs control image sensor and high-speed DDR memory recording while reducing power to extend battery life for SIGMA megapixel digital SLR camera used by professional and enthusiast photographers.

Tecnoroll Designs Spartan-6 FPGAs into New FLEXMod 3.0 Digital Video Broadcast Module

Spartan-6 FPGAs designed into digital video broadcast module that can be used as a standalone hardware platform or integrated into a customer's end product for standard and high-definition broadcast applications, including video distribution systems and set top boxes.

Xilinx Flagship Spartan-6 FPGAs Built Into New National Instruments CompactRIO Systems and Single-Board RIO Devices

Spartan-6 high performance hardware acceleration and low-power operation enables NI to improve performance and reduce size of NI RIO advanced control & monitoring product portfolio.

Logicview Selects Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs for Next Generation SoC Prototyping System & Emulation Platform

Selection based on success with Virtex-5 FPGAs for current generation Matrix1000 prototyping system and Logicview hardware emulation platform.

Namsong Designs Spartan-6 into Newest Line of Multi-format Portable Field Monitors for Professional Broadcast Applications

New line of professional, multi-format portable field monitors introduced at NAB 2011 can be used on a rack or desktop, mounted to a camera or deployed in the field.

SiliconGear Designs Spartan-6 FPGAs into Latest Generation High-Definition Video Security Surveillance & Video Display Platform

Newly-introduced HD-SDI DVR set-top box & display panel solution shipping in volume to leading surveillance equipment manufacturers in Asia Pacific.

Xilinx Enables Leading Wireless Platform & Semiconductor Company to Speed Wireless Products to Market With FPGA-Based Prototyping System

System allows company to quickly prototype ASSP designs & jumpstart software development

NEC Display Solutions Adopts Xilinx FPGAs for 3D-Capable Cinema Projectors

Virtex-5 provides SDI-standard high-speed interfaces on a single chip to reduce total cost of DLP Cinema Projector.

Xilinx FPGAs guide robotic-assisted surgical system

Pico Computing Unveils Accelerator Board with Xilinx 28nm FPGAs

ZTE designs packet-based multiservice bearer platform using Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs

Modular surgical stations demonstrate Virtex’s distributed intelligence

Virtex-5 FPGAs included in architecture for minimally invasive surgery – systems that make use of laporoscopic probes and haptic tools for robotic-assisted surgery.

Surgical Superpowers

Intuitive Surgical uses Xilinx FPGAs to bring robots into the operating room.

Xilinx boasts 200+ design wins for 7 Series FPGAs

Highlights how NDS Surgical Imaging is using Xilinx FPGAs to design high resolution medical displays for diagnostic radiology.

Opal Kelly Shuttle LX1 FMC Carrier Features Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA

Opal Kelly introduced their Shuttle LX1 evaluation board platform which incorporates the Xilinx Spartan-6 to improve evaluation board capability and simplifies the design approach for semiconductor manufacturers.

Micro/sys uses Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA to build COTS SBC

Micro/sys has built commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) single-board computer (SBC) with a small, low-power, rugged board using an integrated Spartan-6 FPGA with MicroBlaze processor sub-system and ARM® Cortex™-A8 processor.

NSA-approved, defense-grade cryptographic Spartan-6Q FPGAs now in production

The Spartan-6Q device in conjunction with Xilinx's Isolation Design Flow and Security Monitor IP, forms the basis for the FPGA leader's platform for secure communications designs and extends the on-going relationship between the NSA and Xilinx.

Bringing FPGAs to Mechanical Engineers

National Instruments and Xilinx are working on ways to make FPGAs more accessible to mechanical engineering domain experts.

Xilinx prepares FPGAs for space travel

NASA-sponsored Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Michigan will be the first to fly a production Virtex-5QV FPGA.

The latest and greatest in RIO technology

Spartan-6 FPGAs are featured in NI's new CompactRIO Systems and Single-Board RIO Devices.

NIWeek 2011 opens with new LabVIEW

Newly-announced LabVIEW 2011 "can dramatically increase development efficiency," says Jeff Kodosky, National Instruments business and technology fellow, cofounder and inventor of LabVIEW.

Xilinx FPGAs beam up next-gen radio astronomy

Researchers in Australia use Virtex FPGAs to economically meet the demanding requirements of an advanced telescope.

High-performance FPGAs take flight in microsatellites

Virtex FPGAs are on-board CubeSat experimental missions in low-earth orbit.

BEEcube targets data centers, RF

The data center and software-defined radio are on BeeCube's roadmap for its FPGA development platform.

FPGAs Synchronize Next-Generation Networks

Designers are creating the next-generation network (NGN) to transport data, voice and video simultaneously, providing transparency and scalability while minimizing total operational cost.

Accelerating Texture Mapping with Spartan-6 FPGAs

Once an application for custom ASIC cores, this demanding computer graphics process is now the province of low-cost FPGAs.

Xilinx FPGAs Guide Robotic-Assisted Surgical system

Intuitive Surgical revolutionizes the operating room with the da Vinci Surgical System which includes Xilinx FPGAs.

How to Build a Better DC/DC Regulator Using FPGAs

The availability of low-cost FPGAs and ADCs allows digital control of switch-mode DC/DC regulators.

Using the Clock Period Constraint to Your Advantage

Understanding the TS_clk constraint in terms of Xilinx ISE and tool behavior will help you attain effective timing closure in FPGA designs.

Dual-MicroBlaze Xilkernel System Eyes Automotive Apps

Memory segmentation and data-exchange strategies take lion’s share of the implementation of deeply coupled master/slave multiprocessor systems.

Bottling a Star Using ARM's AXI4 in an FPGA

Fusion researchers in the U.K. demonstrate a data acquisition system for syntheticaperture imaging using the latest ARM AXI4 interface on Xilinx technology.

FPGAs Drive Real-Time Optical Biopsy System

Researchers in Japan are using the Virtex-5 and National Instruments LabVIEW to develop next-generation 3D OCT imaging.

Xilinx FPGAs Beam Up Next-Gen Radio Astronomy

Researchers in Australia are using Virtex-6 FPGAs to economically meet the demanding requirements of an advanced telescope called ASKAP.

What Can FPGA-Based Prototyping Do for You?

The greatest benefit may be when first SoC silicon arrives in the lab and the embedded software is running that same day.

Reconfigurable System Uses Large FPGA Computation Fields

By interconnecting multiple Xilinx FPGAs, designers can build a new kind of supercomputer and tailor it for jobs in a wide range of application areas.

Fast Startup for Xilinx FPGAs

Advanced research work demonstrates a new, two-step configuration method that meets the tight startup timing specs of automotive and PCIe applications.

High-Performance FPGAs Take Flight in Microsatellites

Utilizing Xilinx Virtex-4 devices in a U.K. CubeSat mission presents some interesting design challenges.

General-Purpose SoC Platform Handles Hardware/Software Co-Design

Built on a pair of Spartan FPGAs, the fourth-generation Gecko system serves industrial and research applications as well as educational projects.

Look Ma, No Motherboard!

How one design team put a full single-board computer with SATA into a Xilinx FPGA.

FPGAs Speed the Computation of Complex Credit Derivatives

Financial organizations can assess value and risk 30x faster on Xilinx-accelerated systems than those using standard multicore processors.

MicroBlaze Hosts Mobile Multisensor Navigation System

Researchers used Xilinx's soft-core processor to develop an integrated navigation solution that works in places where GPS doesn't.

FPGA Research Design Platform Fuels Network Advances

Xilinx and Stanford University are teaming up to create an FPGA-based reference board and open-source IP repository to seed innovation in the networking space.

Resurrecting the Cray-1 in a Xilinx FPGA

Want a classic, mammoth, number-crunching supercomputer of your own? Build one.

Virtex-4 FPGA Forms Foundation for Secure GSM Standards

Here are some design mechanisms and tips you can try when implementing current and future A5/x algorithms using Xilinx FPGAs.

Using FPGAs in Mission-Critical Systems

SEU-resistant state machines hold the key to adapting programmable logic devices for high-reliability applications.

LTE Simulator Relies on Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs

Powerful programmable logic platform enables Prisma Engineering to provide reconfigurable radio test equipment for all cellular networks.

Making Biometrics the Killer App of FPGA Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration

Run-time reconfigurable hardware technology brings key advantages in the design of automatic personal recognition systems.

Building a Better Crypto Engine the Programmable Way

Hardware acceleration based on Xilinx FPGA delivers a speedy system.

Multiple MicroBlazes Ease Integration in Real-Time Automotive System

When facing a project with ever-changing requirements and software contributions from multiple locations, multiprocessors can actually help.

Using Xilinx FPGAs to Speed Packet Processing

Virtex devices enable the programmable FAST processors to decode, inspect and modify packets with minimal CPU involvement.

Implementing 4G Wireless Sphere Detector in FPGA

System Generator was the key to building a quasi-maximum-likelihood detector (4x4, 64-QAM) for spatial-multiplexing MIMO-OFDM systems.

FPGAs Hold Key to Greener Search

FPGA-accelerated information retrieval may be the fastest route to energy efficiency in the data center.

Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration of Xilinx FPGAs Lets Systems Adapt on the Fly

A video-based driver assistance application demonstrates effective use of situation-adaptive hardware.

AED Makes Times Square Sparkle

Design services firm creates sophisticated electronics for many of the world's most spectacular billboards.

Breath Tester Helps Drinkers Know When to Say No

Aimed at bartenders and party hosts, the Elan personal breathalyzer is accessibly priced at $49.

Seeing the Unseen: Aloka's ProSound Alpha10

Ultrasound machine leverages Virtex FPGA for high-performance DSP functionality.

LCD Televisions Get Dynamic Backlight Control

FPGAs are helping companies like ASTRI bring flat-panel TV innovations to market faster than ever before.

CERN Supercollider Headed for Big Bang

Scientists in Europe have launched a controlled experiment to observe conditions shortly after the universe began.

Inside the Box, Convey Computer Thinks Differently

Hybrid-core approach to high-performance computing relies on FPGA coprocessor.

Dayang Brings Leading-Edge Broadcast Equipment to China

Red Bridge III high-def video card leverages DSP-optimized Virtex FPGA.

Delphi Displays Make Chevy Hot Rods Hotter

User-customizable gauges point to reprogrammable dashboard.

To Build or Not to Build? Dini Prototyping Has the Answer

Xilinx-based systems help customers determine if they should take their ASICs to production.

100/40-Gbps Test Set Helps Repave Info Superhighway

Ixia's K2 module generates and captures full-line-rate data.

Stereoscopic 3-D Multiviewer Rocks the Broadcast World

Miranda's Kaleido-X16 system lets broadcasters smoothly shift from camera to camera.

NASA Shoots SpaceCube Technology into Orbit

Tiny SpaceCube computer explores outer reaches of the universe.

Mars Exploration Rovers Celebrate 6 Years on Red Planet

Staying power of JPL's mechanical geologists has exceeded NASA scientists' expectations.

Virtual ASSPs' Run on Xilinx FPGAs

IP vendor Omiino is a pioneer of what it calls the Virtual ASSP model, offering customized versions of its wired-comms technology programmed on Xilinx FPGAs.

Pixel Velocity Eyes the Big Picture in Advanced Surveillance

Flexible Pixel Video Fusion system tracks suspicious persons, behaviors across multiple cameras in real time.

PLX Devices' Kiwi Makes Drivers Green

Automotive device monitors and grades driving habits for optimal fuel efficiency.

Samsung Is Watching You

Sophisticated surveillance systems ensure public safety and security.

Sanarus' Visica 2 Eradicates Breast Tumors Without Surgery

Cryoablation system offers cool alternative for women with benign fibroadenomas.

Sonic Emotion Brings Audio Immersion to the Masses

Xilinx Spartan FPGAs form the heart of its 3D Sound technology IP.

SRC Rapidly Innovates to Save Lives, on and off the Battlefield

R&D company relies on FPGAs for fast turnaround of electronic-warfare, radar and comms systems.