Xilinx hits revenue target as profit shrinks
Design Article
Programmable logic vendor Xilinx reported a net income of $70.5 million on revenue of $395 million for the company's fiscal fourth quarter, which closed in March.
Timing Closure Exploration Tools with SmartXplorer and PlanAhead
Technical Paper
Technical Paper Timing Closure! This is undoubtedly one of the most challenging aspects in modern FPGA design. It is difficult to avoid this challenge when the complexity of FPGA devices doubles every 1½ years and when designers try to pack more and more functionality into a single chip.
Declining ASIC starts seen as gain for FPGAs
Design Article
FPGAs are displacing ASICs--a trend that in 2009 will be exacerbated by the global financial crisis--and now have a 30-to-one edge in design starts, according to market research firm Gartner.
Product how-to: DSP/FPGA platform for video surveillance
Design Article
Avnet's video surveillance platform pairs a TI DM6437 DaVinci DSP with a Xilinx Spartan-3A DSP FPGA. here's how the platform works, and how to get the most out of it.
