Xilinx today introduced the industry's first Broadcast Connectivity Targeted Design Platform with Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs to simplify development of serial digital interface (SDI) solutions for high-performance broadcast audio and video systems. The broadcast connectivity platform accelerates time to market and differentiation of professional broadcast audio, video and network connectivity products, including cameras, switchers, routers, encoders, ...

Xilinx, Inc. today announced that its Targeted Design Platform strategy has won Electronic Engineering & Product World's (EEPW) prestigious Best New Concept Award as part of their annual China Influential Embedded System New Technology Award program. This is one in a string of recognitions made by China's electronic engineering trade media since Xilinx Targeted Design Platforms were introduced at the beginning of the year.

Xilinx, Inc. today announced the availability of the industry's first IBIS-AMI models for FPGA transceivers. Xilinx is the first FPGA provider and among the first silicon vendors to release IBIS-AMI models for its transceiver technology that will enable designers to reduce simulation time from hours to minutes. Xilinx and Signal Integrity Software, Inc. (SiSoft) will hold a free webinar on Thursday, Nov. 12 to outline the advantages of using IBIS...

Xilinx Inc today announced that Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) has incorporated Xilinx flagship Spartan-3A FPGAs into the design of its leading edge dynamic LED backlight control technology for flat panel LCD televisions. With Spartan at the heart of the system, ASTRI offers manufacturers of next-generation LCD TVs sharper video image quality and lower power consumption over competing solutions. Because Sparta...

Xilinx K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX), today announced that the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan (AIST) selected Virtex-5 and Spartan-3A FPGA families for its SASEBO-GII boards for side channel attack standard evaluation and partial reconfiguration. The SASEBO-GII boards will enable the development and evaluation of performance and security of cryptographic circuits to contribut...

Xilinx, Inc. today announced that for the first time ever, multi-channel Dolby Digital professional encoding is available on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). This capability has been implemented on Xilinx(R) Virtex(R)-5 devices, providing broadcast equipment developers with the flexibility to adapt to rapidly evolving design requirements for higher performance, lower power systems, and a simplified bill of materials to reduce costs.

At IBC2009, Xilinx, Inc. announced the integration of Xilinx field programmable gate arrays in the latest digital TV and mobile TV modules from TeamCast, a world leader in mobile TV and DTV transmission technology innovations. TeamCast credits the full range of high capacity and cost-effective Xilinx device options, combined with the ability to embed processing and programmable logic in a single FPGA, as key factors in providing the flexibility a...

Xilinx has announced design support for Virtex-6 HXT FPGAs with the 11.3 release of the ISE Design Suite software. Optimized for 40G/100G wired telecommunications and data communications, Virtex-6 HXT FPGAs deliver serial interface technology to designers of ultra-high bandwidth systems with line rates in excess of 11 Gigabits per second (Gbps). The availability of ISE Design Suite 11.3 gives designers access to a portfolio of connectivity-domain...