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Xilinx Announces Vivado Design Suite Early Access Support for the 16nm UltraScale+ Portfolio

SAN JOSE, Calif.July 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced Vivado® Design Suite early access support for the 16nm UltraScale+™ portfolio, including Zynq® UltraScale+ and Kintex® UltraScale+ devices. The Vivado early access release has been co-optimized with the UltraScale+ ASIC-class programmable logic to exploit the full advantages of production UltraScale+ devices, leveraging the complete catalog of SmartCORE™ and LogiCORE™ IP.

Xilinx is also enabling software development for the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC family in the Xilinx Software Development Kit (SDK) and PetaLinux tools. The Xilinx SDK provides a comprehensive Eclipse-based environment for developing and debugging software applications on the MPSoC processor subsystem and also enables software teams to get started today with Xilinx’s robust and scalable QEMU emulation platform.

Availability

For more information about the Vivado Design Suite early access tools for the UltraScale+ portfolio, contact your local sales representative.  To learn more about Xilinx software development environments and embedded platforms visit the Xilinx Software Developer Zone

About the Xilinx UltraScale+ Portfolio

The 16nm UltraScale+ family of FPGAs, 3D ICs, and MPSoCs, combines new memory, 3D-on-3D and multi-processing SoC (MPSoC) technologies enabling an even higher level of performance and integration, and include the SmartConnect interconnect optimization technology. Optimized at the system level, UltraScale+ delivers value far beyond a traditional process node migration – providing 2–5X greater system level performance/watt over 28nm devices, far more systems integration and intelligence, and the highest level of security and safety.

About Xilinx

Xilinx is the leading provider of All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, MPSoCs, and 3D ICs. Xilinx uniquely enables applications that are both software defined and hardware optimized – powering industry advancements in Cloud Computing, SDN/NFV, Video/Vision, Industrial IoT, and 5G Wireless. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.

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