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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.

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 ...

Since their beginnings, FPGA’s have been notorious for being hard to program. That could be changing with the new Vitis Unified Software Platform from Xilinx. Five years in the making, the Vitis ...

Many systems use Byte-wide Peripheral Interface (BPI) flash memory for FPGA configuration and system data storage. Often it is not desirable or even possible to update the flash PROM directly after ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Undeterred by earlier false starts for programmable ASICs, IBM Corp. and Xilinx Inc. are embarking on a plan to jointly create an architecture that melds an FPGA core with a ...

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe explains how OpenCL may make FPGAs an attractive option. In January 2015, FPGAs took a step closer to the mainstream of ...

IBM is partnering with Xilinx to expand the use of programmable chips to its Power systems as the tech vendor looks to gain more share of the server chip market from Intel. The two companies will ...

The field programmable gate space is heating up with new use cases driven by everything from emerging network, IoT, and application acceleration trends. Keeping ahead of the curve means expanding on ...

SOFTWARE/HARDWARE: Xilinx Inc. recently announced the availability of the new Xilinx ® Virtex ®-6 and Spartan ®-6 FPGA Connectivity Development Kits that provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use, and ...