Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), introduced today the Xilinx Kintex™-7 FPGA Mini-Module Plus Development Kit – a completely customizable development kit, perfect for system architects and field programmable gate array (FPGA) designers looking for a flexible, high performance and upgradable platform. The Avnet Mini-Module Plus system consists of a modular baseboard with three slots supporting a FPGA module, a power supply module and an optional FPGA mezzanine card (FMC) application module. The Xilinx Kintex™-7 FPGA version of the kit is the first of three planned kit offerings, with future … Read More → "Avnet Electronics Marketing Introduces Mini-Module Plus Development Kit Supporting the Xilinx Kintex™-7 FPGA Family"

NUREMBERG, Germany, Embedded World 2012, Feb. 28, 2012 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced open-source Linux Asymmetric Multi-Processing (AMP) support for its extensible processing platform (EPP), enabling developers to put Zynq™-7000 devices to work on applications that need to deliver deterministic, real-time responsiveness for markets such as automotive, industrial and others with similar requirements. Using open-source Linux and FreeRTOS operating systems and the RPMsg Inter Processor Communication (IPC) framework between the Zynq EPP’s two high-performance ARM® Cortex™ … Read More → "Xilinx Unveils Linux OS-Based Asymmetric Multi-Processing Solution Supporting Zynq-7000 EPP at Embedded World 2012"