Xcell Journal

With Vertical Markets, There's Nowhere to Go But Up
Editorial by Forrest Couch, Publisher Xcell Publications.

Programmability: The Answer to Complexity
Article by Wim Roelandts, Xilinx CEO and Chairman of the Board

Scoping the Next Killer App –Triple Play
How consumers are influencing the Xilinx roadmap.

Wireless

WiMAX – Delivering on the Promise of Wireless Broadband
Using Xilinx FPGAs in the MAC subsystem provides a key differentiator in WiMAX product design.
FPGAs Enable Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge-to-Edge
Network convergence is possible using PWE3 for transport and delivery.

Wired

Enabling Next-Generation MAN Equipment
You can develop flexible, IEEE 802.17 Resilient Packet Ring-compliant equipment faster and with less resources using the Xilinx RPR MAC reference design.
SDH/SONET Linecard Design at the Speed of Light
By leveraging available framer IP and software, you can rapidly create flexible telecom hardware.

Industrial/Scientific/Medical

Designing an FPGA-Based RFID Reader
You can implement a practical, standards-compliant RFID reader using off-the-shelf RF components and FPGAs.
Connecting Industrial Automation Control Networks
An overview of industrial field buses, connectivity and interoperability needs, and available Xilinx platform solutions.

Consumer

IDE Hard Disk Drive Solutions for Smart Handheld Applications
iWave Systems offers a hardware companion for easy data storage.
Xilinx Low-Cost Display Solutions
Get your display designs to market faster with Spartan™-3E FPGA hardware and IP solutions.
High-Performance Image Processing on FPGAs
You can develop and implement sophisticated imaging modules on low-cost devices.

Servers and Storage

Fibre Channel Solutions from Xilinx
Using the Virtex™ family and Xilinx Fibre Channel IP, you can build a complete FC solution running as fast as 4 Gbps.
Utilizing Virtex-4 FPGA-Immersed IP for Hardware Acceleration for RAID6 Parity Generation/Data Recovery
FPGAs and immersed IP blocks increase data reliability and availability in storage systems.
Why You Should Use FPGAs in Data Security
Xilinx is an ideal platform for data security applications.
Virtex-II Pro FPGAs Enable 10 Gb iSCSI/TCP Offload
The Ipsil FlowStack enables 10 Gbps TOE solutions using a very small footprint.
Xilinx in Enclosure Management
The FPGA-based Xilinx/Silicon Spectrum iKVM platform is compatible with the x86 software and driver environment.
Mining Data without Limits
FPGAs make high-throughput, low-latency data mining a reality.
Enabling Enterprise-Wide Data Security
The Virtex family of FPGAs provides a flexible hardware architecture for Decru’s storage security solutions.
Accelerating Scientific Applications Using FPGAs
A physicist uses C-to-hardware tools with the Cray XD1 supercomputer and Xilinx FPGAs to prototype high-performance algorithms.
Co-Processing Solutions for Delivering Storage Services Over Distance
Virtex FPGAs enable a services-based architecture for delivering secure file solutions over distance.

A Programmable ExpressCard Solution
Philips Semiconductors and Xilinx offer a two-chip, low-cost, low-power, programmable PCI Express solution.
Getting the Most Out of Spartan-3 FPGAs with Synplify Pro
Synthesizing your Spartan-3 designs with Synplify Pro will save time and expense.
A Fundamentally Different Approach to FPGA I/O Design
Agilent used I/O Designer to achieve radical reductions in design cycle time.
Simulating SSO Noise
Electromagnetic and transient circuit simulations can accurately predict SSO noise performance.
ESL Tools for FPGAs
Empowering software developers to design with programmable hardware.
Interconnect Loss Budgeting for RocketIO Transceivers
You can mitigate loss with a combination of common sense and software simulation.
A Paradigm Shift in Signal Integrity and Timing Analysis
Emerging high-speed interfaces are breaking traditional analysis approaches, forcing a paradigm shift in analysis tools and methodology.
Selecting a High-Speed POL Converter for FPGAs
Bellnix offers a high-quality power management solution.