Xilinx Demonstrates Value of Programmable Systems Integration at ESC India 2012

  Xilinx Demonstrates Value of Programmable Systems Integration at ESC India
                                     2012

Booth demos and conference presentations highlight convergence of hardware and
software in All Programmable systems enhancing flexibility, performance and
design productivity as well as BOM cost and total power

PR Newswire

BANGALORE, India, July 15, 2012

BANGALORE, India, July 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX)
will demonstrate its Zynq™-7000 Extensible Processing Platform (EPP) and new
Vivado™ Design Suite, as well as presenting two conference papers on FPGA
design for software developers and System-on-Chip (SoC) integration at ESC
India 2012 from July 18-20, 2012. Xilinx will show visitors how its All
Programmable technologies enable flexible, scalable embedded designs for
achieving increased system performance and accelerated design productivity.

(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20020822/XLNXLOGO)

Xilinx's All Programmable technologies comprise of FPGAs, 3D ICs and SoCs
featuring programmable hardware, software and I/O, tightly integrated with
best-in-class operating systems, IP and development tools.

What:     Embedded Systems Conference India (ESC India) 2012
Where:    NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore, stand C7-C8
When:     July 18 - 20, 2012
Exhibits: July 18 – 20, 2012
Papers:   July 20, 2012

Zynq-7000 SoC

Four  demonstrations will highlight the video, graphics and real-time
processing capabilities of Xilinx's Zynq-7000 EPP; a new class of device which
combines the industry-standard ARM® dual-core Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ processing
system with tightly coupled programmable logic, demonstrating that this
architecture offers values far beyond just component cost reduction.

The image-processing demonstration, using Linux running in SMP mode on a
Zynq-7000 SoC development board, will compare a software-based approach to
processing medical CAT-scan images using the dual Cortex-A9 cores, against a
hardware-accelerated solution with critical functions performed in
programmable logic showing an overall performance gain of over 10x on this
image processing algorithm.

With Windows Embedded Compact 7 gaining traction in a wide range of small
footprint enterprise and consumer devices, a demonstration based on the work
by Adeneo on Zynq-7000 SoC will showcase advanced Qt graphical user framework
and multimedia capabilities.

Another demonstration, featuring accelerated HD video processing, will show
how the Zynq-7000 device enables a single-chip solution capable of processing
a video pipeline in a way that is unachievable using a two-chip solution.
Featuring a sobel filter implemented in programmable logic, this IP core is
interconnected with the dual Cortex-A9 processing system. This demonstration
will show how computationally intensive tasks can be offloaded seamlessly in
programmable logic to maximize system performance and functionality while
reducing power consumption.

The final application-focused Zynq-7000 EPP demonstration will feature the
device as an asymmetric multi-processing engine using the two Cortex-A9 cores.
Utilizing technology by Xilinx Alliance Program member, Petalogix, and running
Linux side-by-side with FreeRTOS for tasks requiring low-latency response,
this demonstration will show how comprehensive support for both open-source
and commercial operating systems enables Zynq-7000 devices to fulfill a wide
range of industrial applications.

Vivado Design Suite

In addition, Xilinx will showcase its Vivado Design Suite, a completely new
design environment built from the ground up to accelerate design productivity,
scale to support high-capacity programmable devices at 28nm and beyond, and
provide features for programmable systems integration.

Xilinx will show how the Vivado Design Suite integrated design environment
with its shared scalable data model facilitates a new IP centric design
approach with progressive area and power estimates and cross-probing at all
levels. Xilinx will also demonstrate its unique High-Level synthesis tool
built on AutoESL™ tool technology, Vivado HLS, which accelerates design
implementation and verification by enabling C,C++, and SystemC specifications
to be directly synthesized into VHDL or Verilog RTL, after exploring a
multitude of micro-architectures based on design requirements. Designers and
system architects will see on the Xilinx booth a faster and more robust way of
delivering quality designs.

Presentations

Friday, July 20

9:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

ASSPs With Programmable Logic - A New Generation of SoCs

In this presentation, Vaibhav Kale, technical marketing manager, Xilinx
embedded processing solutions, will describe how processor systems based on
soft or hard processors, or ASSPs, are becoming integrated with programmable
logic, review current and future market offerings, explain the tradeoffs
between various different approaches, and discuss some detailed application
examples.

11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

De-Mystifying FPGAs for Software Engineers

Prushothaman Palanichamy, senior engineer, Xilinx embedded processing
solutions, will provide a simple to understand primer of what modern FPGAs can
do from a software engineer's perspective. Starting from the basics of what
FPGAs are, in terms of software programming, this session will introduce the
tools and ecosystem for accelerating software development for FPGAs and will
provide practical tips on how FPGAs can be used to solve some difficult
challenges in software development.

About Xilinx

Xilinx is the world's leading provider of All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs and 3D
ICs. These industry-leading devices are coupled with a next-generation design
environment and IP to serve a broad range of customer needs, from programmable
logic to programmable systems integration. For more information, visit
www.xilinx.com.

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Editorial Contact:
Christelle Moraga
Xilinx EMEA
+44 1932 836 526
Christelle.moraga@xilinx.com

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