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A Roadmap to Productivity
There has never been a better time to be a design engineer. With today’s products from Xilinx, you
can accomplish more, in less time, with less risk, than ever before. With our Virtex™-4 FPGA
family, you have the ideal silicon platform to tackle today’s most complex system-design challenges,
and with our ISE™ software you can unleash that power. The Xilinx ISE tools continue to be the
design community’s number-one choice; we hear this loud and clear from our customers.
We thank you for your support and we constantly strive to bring you more software innovations
that maximize the benefits of our silicon solutions. For example, the 2005 EDA Survey conducted
by EE Times indicates that the top three issues and challenges that you face are meeting timing
budgets, getting your design to work on the PCB, and completing functional verification. The
Xilinx software team has been hard at work solving these challenges for you, to help reduce your
design time.
With the release of the ISE 8.1i software, we are introducing the new ISE Fmax technology, which
as the name implies is designed to improve design performance and reduce design bottlenecks.
With the addition of advanced options such as the PlanAhead™ hierarchical floorplanner, the
ChipScope™ Pro analyzer, and wide industry support from leading EDA vendors, it is easy to see
why our ISE software is the top choice.
We want to help you be more productive. With this in mind, this issue of the Xcell Journal includes
a collection of articles highlighting tools and strategies to reduce the time you spend meeting your
timing budgets, as well as articles on productivity enhancement tools and techniques in the areas
of verification and board-level interfaces. We have also included case studies on how some of our
customers are successfully using Xilinx software in their designs, as well as a poster on timing
closure technologies, which we hope will be a handy reference to help you maximize performance
in the shortest possible time.
Thank you for reading Xcell !
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