Date: 02/11/2011

Xilinx ISE Design Suite 13.3 feature DSP support to handle media content

Xilinx, Inc. has made available of ISE Design Suite 13.3 featuring new capabilities for DSP designers to implement bit-accurate single, double and full custom precision floating-point math operations in their designs targeting wireless, medical, aerospace and defense, high-performance computing and video applications. This flow is available through System Generator for DSP and leverages the Xilinx Floating-Point Operator IP LogiCORE.

"Compared to competing solutions, only System Generator for DSP provides developers with a bit accurate solution, meaning we can guarantee that the simulation model will match the hardware implementation," said Tom Feist, Sr. Marketing Director, Design Methodology Marketing at Xilinx. "Xilinx 7 series 28nm FPGAs can deliver up to 1.33 teraflops of single-precision floating-point performance on one device, which is driving the demand for an easy-to-use design flow that delivers hand crafted results."

The Xilinx Floating-Point Operator core allows a range of floating-point arithmetic operations that can be performed in an FPGA. The operation is specified when the core is generated through the CORE Generator tool and now System Generator, and each operation variant has a common AXI-4 streaming interface, previously, it was possible to implement a floating-point design in a Xilinx FPGA leveraging the full custom precision floating-point IP available in CORE Generator, as per Xilinx. However, the design flow required an understanding of VHDL or Verilog and simulation could be challenging for DSP developers.

ISE Design Suite 13.3 also adds Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and provides productivity enhancements for Logic, Embedded and System Edition users. All editions contain enhancements to Plug-and-Play IP and device support for 7 series devices. Embedded and System Editions contain significant Platform Studio ease-of-use enhancements including a new Graphical Design View. Logic Edition contains productivity enhancement to the PlanAhead design analysis tool, including a graphical hierarchy viewer for HDL files.

Availability: ISE Design Suite 13 is immediately available for all ISE Editions and list priced starting at $2,995 for the Logic Edition and now supports 32 and 64 bit Windows 7.

For more information visit: www.xilinx.com