SAN JOSE, Calif. July 10, 2012 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced its sponsorship of a Graphical System Design Achievement Award at NIWeek 2012. The featured award titled, “The NI LabVIEW FPGA Innovation Award,” will recognize the paper that details the most innovative application using National Instruments (NI) LabVIEW graphical system design software to program the field programmable gate array (FPGA) in NI hardware including PXI-based R Series modules, CompactRIO, NI FlexRIO, or NI Single-Board RIO devices. Finalists will be selected by the NI judging panel, with the winning industry design team chosen by a panel of Xilinx judges.
Graphical System Design Achievement Award winners will be honored at a ceremony on August 7, 2012 at the NIWeek 2012 Worldwide Graphical System Design Conference and Exhibition in Austin, Texas. Entries submitted by the March 1, 2012 deadline are currently being evaluated according to submission requirements here: http://www.ni.com/gsdawards/participate.htm.
For more than a decade, Xilinx and National Instruments have successfully collaborated on the delivery of more than 60 flagship NI RIO products, which combine LabVIEW system design software and NI reconfigurable input/output (RIO) hardware systems with embedded Xilinx “All Programmable” FPGAs. The productivity of the NI LabVIEW FPGA Module allows any engineer or scientist to quickly leverage flexible, high-performance FPGAs within innovative control, measurement and test systems without the need to learn traditional electronic design automation tools and methodologies.
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