Meeting with Xilinx and its partners this week at Amazon AWS re:Invent gave me a chance to understand where FPGAs are making progress, and what is preventing them from making more. If you recall, the ...

Every new hardware device that offers some kind of benefit compared to legacy devices faces the task of overcoming the immense inertia that is imparted to a platform by the software that runs upon it.

In January, Victor Peng was appointed the CEO of Xilinx, the US company best known for creating field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) - integrated circuits that can be reconfigured using software.

As AMD is getting closer to closing its $35 billion acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx, it is natural to think about how well that business is doing and how it is competing against its main rival, Intel ...

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are chips that can be reprogrammed to meet specific needs or perform specific functions after they're manufactured, giving developers the flexibility to alter ...

Why are so many companies suddenly jumping into the datacenter accelerator game? Major chip companies such as Intel, NVIDIA and Xilinx as well as startups such as Nervana (being acquired by Intel), ...

Xilinx System Generator for DSP is a MATLAB Simulink block set that facilitates system design. Targeting Xilinx FPGAs within the familiar MATLAB environment, System Generator for DSP gives you the ...

Industry's Only Low-cost FPGA With Dedicated Multipliers & Block RAM For Embedded System Solutions SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/-- Representing a major milestone in the embedded processing ...

Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) announced today that hundreds of its Space Grade FPGAs were deployed in the launch of the Iridium NEXT satellites. Space Grade Virtex®-5QV devices provide scalability and ...