Electronic System Level Design Ecosystem

Electronic System Level (ESL) design refers to evolving design and verification methodologies that begin at a higher level of abstraction than the current mainstream Register Transfer Level (RTL). Many of the ESL design languages are closer in syntax and semantics to the popular ANSI C than to hardware languages like Verilog and VHDL.

A key focus of many of the ESL tools for FPGAs is to empower designers with software programming skills to be able to easily implement their ideas in programmable hardware without having to learn traditional hardware design techniques.

A wide array of FPGA optimized ESL solutions are available from Xilinx ecosystem members.

Xilinx ESL Ecosystem Members

Select the Xilinx ecosystem member solution that best fits your needs.

ESL Members	FPGA Computing Solutions
Agility	Agility speeds the development of signal processing algorithms offering complete solutions for algorithm acceleration, prototyping and implementation in both software and hardware.
AutoESL	The AutoPilot tool from AutoESL provides platform-based, communication-centric ESL synthesis flow synthesis flow that automatically generates high-quality RTL code from C, C++, and SystemC descriptions for design and implementation of Xilinx FPGAs.
Binachip	Binachip helps accelerate embedded applications by transforming software binaries into FPGA hardware
Bluespec	Bluespec ESL synthesis produces hardware circuits of comparable quality to hand coded RTL in less than half the time
Codetronix	Mobius enables rapid development of FPGA hw/sw systems by compiling high-level multi-threaded floating/fixed point source to either C or synthesizeable HDL with high quality of results.
CriticalBlue	Critical Blue provides a coprocessor synthesis solution that accelerates CPU binary executable code by offloading slower portions to a Xilinx FPGA
Impulse Accelerated	Impulse C allows C-language applications to be accelerated in FPGAs by orders of magnitude over traditional embedded processor implementations
Mimosys	Mimosys Clarity automatically identifies and implements hardware accelerator blocks directly from C source code to FPGAs.
Mirabilis Design	Mirabilis Design Inc. has joined the Xilinx ESL initiative to provide FPGA designers with architectural exploration solutions for feasibility studies and virtual prototyping of FPGAs and multi-FPGA systems.
Mitrionics	The Mitrion Platform lets software developers write applications for FPGAs that run 10 to 30 times faster compared to using traditional CPUs, without requiring any FPGA design skills
Nallatech	Nallatech provides FPGA boards and a software development environment that enable high performance computing
Synfora, Inc.	PICO Express FPGA allows system designers to increase their productivity 10X or more by expressing complex algorithms in untimed C and then synthesizing the C code directly into a Xilinx FPGA with the same quality of results as hand design would achieve.
Synplicity, Inc.	The Synplify DSP tool from Synplicity offers a unique ESL synthesis methodology for high-level modeling, architectural exploration and implementation of DSP algorithms into Xilinx FPGAs
SystemCrafter	SystemCrafter SC is an affordable synthesis tool which can synthesize the SystemC language to RTL VHDL suitable for Xilinx FPGA implementation