Xcell Journal Issue 79

Xilinx Unveils Vivado Design Suite for the Next Decade of 'All Programmable' Devices

State-of-the-art EDA technologies and methods underlie a new tool suite that will radically improve design productivity and quality of results, allowing designers to create better systems faster and with fewer chips.

High-Level Synthesis Tool Delivers Optimized Packet Engine Design

AutoESL enabled the creation of an in-fabric, processor-free UDP network packet engine.

Accelerating Distributed Computing with FPGAs

An SoC network that uses Xilinx partial-reconfiguration technology offers cloud computing for algorithms under test with large stimulus data sets.

FPGAs Enable Flexible Platform for High School Robotics

A Xilinx Spartan FPGA forms the basis for a powerful teaching tool that's able to evolve, reinventing itself according to student needs.

Smart, Fast Trading Platforms Start with FPGAs

A new framework speeds application development of ultralow-latency financial systems.

Accelerate Partial Reconfiguration with a 100% Hardware Solution

For timing-critical applications like video, a hardware-only solution improves operational capabilities for Xilinx FPGAs.

How to Use the CORDIC Algorithm in Your FPGA Design

It's one of the most important algorithms for implementing DSP and mathematical functions, but many designers are unfamiliar with CORDIC.

Using Formal Verification for HW/SW Co-verification of an FPGA IP Core

A new formal-verification technique allowed a group of academic and industry researchers to holistically verify tightly coupled hardware and firmware within a Xilinx soft core.

How to use RTL analysis, SDC constraints and guided synthesis to create better FPGA designs faster.

Letter from the Publisher: Welcome to the Programmable Renaissance

The Xilinx Zynq™-7000 EPP won UBM Electronic's SoC product of the year.

App Notes: A selection of the latest Xilinx application notes from Xilinx.com

If you want to do a bit more reading about how our FPGAs lend themselves to a broad number of allications, we recommend these application notes.

Xtra Xtra: The latest Xilinx tool updates and patches, as of May 2012

Xilinx is continually improving its products, IP and design tools as it strives to help designers work more effectively.

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