October 31, 2012, ARM TechCom, Santa Clara, CA—Xilinx announced a new version of their Zinq, all programmable FPGAs. The applications focus for the new families are in security and safety, driven by increased interest and more software in security. We talked with David Beal and Stephane Monboisset about the customer-driven additions to the FPGA platforms. [...]
September 6, 2012—We talked with Xilinx about the release of some new reference designs directed towards the broadcast industry. These new designs cover the entire range of content processing, from capture to delivery. The broadcast landscape is becoming more complex, as facility technologies move to the consumer. The transition to digital puts a premium on [...]
July 2012 – In a discussion with Dave Sackett of Maxim about their new family of PMOD plug in boards for speeding up FPGA design. Designed to accompany development boards from Avent, Xilinx, and Digilent, they have created a family of modules that are complete single functions of typical add ons to an FPGA core. [...]
April 26, 2011 – Santa Clara, CA – At the Mentor User2User conference Ivo Bolsens, Sr. Vice President and CTO of Xilinx, discussed the current state and future direction of FPGAs in the semiconductor ecosystem. The semiconductor industry has changed and is no longer driven by industrial computer capabilities, rather it is driven by “consumer [...]
April 11, 2011, NAB, Las Vegas—We stopped by the Xilinx booth to see what is new in field programmable devices. They showed us an array of design tools, broadcast-specific IP, and a new 28 nm family of design-compatible FPGAs. The Broadcast Real-Time Video Engine Targeted Design Platform and release of SMPTE2022 IP core to process [...]
