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Programmable devices are at the heart of most systems today, enabling not only programmable logic design, but programmable systems integration. Xilinx has transformed from an FPGA company to an ‘All Programmable’ company, offering technology from logic and I/O to software programmable ARM® processing systems and beyond. Xilinx offers two design tool suites that support the needs of the next decade of programmable platforms requiring aggressive pace and the need for enhanced productivity.

The next-generation Xilinx Vivado™™ Design Suite is a revolutionary IP and system-centric design environment that boosts developer productivity for dramatically faster integration and implementation with an easy-to-use IP-centric design flow and up to 4x improvement in run times.

The Xilinx ISE® Design Suite continues to bring innovations to a broad base of developers, and extends the familiar design flow to Xilinx All Programmable devices.

  • Vivado Design Suite
    • Vivado’s 28nm Productivity Advantage
      • 3-100X faster C to RTL and standards-based IP integration with fast verification
      • 4X faster implementation with up to 3 speed grade advantage
      • 35% average power advantage at the same performance
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  • ISE Design Suite
    • Familiar design flows (pre-7 series devices), with full support of the latest Xilinx 7 series FPGAs and Zynq™-7000 All Programmable SoCs
    • Integrated tool set supporting logic/connectivity, embedded, and DSP designs
    • Large repository of plug-and-play IP, and gradual transition to Vivado (PlanAhead™™ interface with System Generator and EDK integration)
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