Xcell Publications - Xcell Journal Issue 66

Welcome to issue 66 of Xcell Journal, celebrating Xcell Journal’s 20th anniversary. In this issue, we focused on a rapidly emerging automotive electronics segment called Driver Assistance and how Xilinx FPGAs are playing a critical role in helping customers create remarkable next-generation Driver Assistance systems that help drivers become better drivers. This issue is also loaded with a great deal of hands-on, how-to technical content for those of you designing with our Spartan-3 and Virtex-5 FPGA platforms. Please feel free to send any feedback my way, or better yet submit a technical, how-to piece for an upcoming issue of Xcell.

Oh, and I’m happy to report that by popular demand from readers, you can now download the entire issue of Xcell Journal in PDF with just one click. We hope you enjoy this issue.

Cheers,

Mike Santarini, Publisher
mike.santarini@xilinx.com

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IN THIS ISSUE

Viewpoints

• Letter from the Publisher
  Happy 20th Anniversary Xcell Journal readers!
  Xcell Journal’s creator and first publisher Peter Alfke tells us how Xcell came to be 20 years ago. Alfke also gives his picks of “oldies but goodies” from the early issues of Xcell.
• Xpert Opinion
  Driver Assistance Systems Pose FPGA Opportunities
  Semicast analyst Colin Barnden discusses the emerging Automotive Driver Assistance market and opportunities for FPGA platforms in that market
  
• Xpectations
  FPGA Platforms: Silicon was Just the Beginning
  Senior VP Victor Peng describes that to seize new market opportunities, Xilinx is focusing on offering customers holistic FPGA platforms: bleeding edge tools and IP as well as programmable silicon.

Feature Articles

Cover Story:  Xcellence in Automotive & ISM

• Driver Assistance Revs Up On Xilinx FPGA Platforms
  



Excellence By Design Application Features

Xcellence in Automotive & ISM
• Building Automotive Driver Assistance System Algorithms with Xilinx FPGA platforms

Xcellence in Automotive & ISM
• Security Video Analytics on Xilinx Spartan-3A DSP

Xcellence in New Applications
• A/V Monitoring System Rides Virtex-5



The Xilinx Xperience

Xperts Corner
• Verifying Xilinx FPGAs the Modern Way: SystemVerilog

Xplanation - FPGA 101
• Extend the PowerPC Instruction Set for Complex-Number Arithmetic

Xperiment
• Using a Xilinx FPGA to Beat Your Son at Guitar Hero

Ask FAE-X
• Digital Duct Tape with FPGA Editor

Profiles of Xcellence
• Engineer Turns Blow-up Into Hot Automotive Electronics Startup



Xtra Reading

Xamples…
• A mix of new and popular application notes

Are You Xperienced?
• Embedded for success

Xtra Xtra
• The latest Xilinx tool updates and patches as of September 30, 2008

Tools of Xcellence
• Avalon Bulks up IP Offerings for Optical Transport