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  • Scaling Up to TeraFLOPs Performance with the Virtex-7 Family and High-Level Synthesis

    This white paper provides an overview of fixed- and floating-point DSP coding techniques, ranging from RTL to the Xilinx portfolio of IP and tools. It also describes advances…

  • Lowering Power at 28nm with Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs

    This whitepaper describes several aspects of power related to the Xilinx® 28nm 7 series FPGAs, including the TSMC 28nm high-k metal gate (HKMG), high performance,…

  • Parameterizable Content-Addressable Memory

    This application note describes a parameterizable content-addressable memory (CAM), and is accompanied by a reference design that replaces the CAM core previously delivered through the CORE Generator™…

  • Video Surveillance

    In this video, Xilinx senior product line manager Joe Mallett shows how a mix of software and dedicated hardware in the Spartan allows an HD…

  • Xilinx Baseband Pre-Distortion

    David Hawke (Sr. Product Manager, Radio & Interfaces) describes how Xilinx worked with Axis in the development of a “remote radio head” platform that implements…

  • 3D ICs

    3D ICs

    It wasn’t very long ago that managing off-chip interconnect was a no-brainer. The interconnect path was very straightforward. It started at a pad on the…

  • Fair Trading

    Fair Trading

    Until the coming of the railway, many European towns, in addition to their regular market, would have an annual fair. These were important events, with…

  • Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform Overview

    Vidya Rajagopalan, VP of Processing Platforms at Xilinx, and Dipesh Patel, VP of Technology, Physical IP Division at ARM, introduce the Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform…

  • Faster Troubleshooting And Fault Isolation With In-System Diagnostics

    Troubleshooting and quickly isolating faults is of tremendous value for reducing the time to redesign or repair failing boards.  This paper describes how using an…

  • Team Player

    Team Player

    Witness the recent announcements by a number of EDA companies – Altium, Synopsys, and others – touting team design enhancements in their tools.  With their…