DELL/HP/SUN PROVIDE WORKSTATION SUPPORT FOR XILINX ISE.Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :XLNX), a provider of programmable logic See PLD. solutions, has unveiled that the world's premier technical computing infrastructure companies have joined its new AllianceDeskTop partner program. Charter members Dell, HP, and Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. are teaming with Xilinx to provide programmable logic and system designers with scalable, high-performance workstation support for the latest release of the company's ISE Ise (ē`sā), city (1990 pop. 104,164), Mie prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on Ise Bay. It is one of the foremost religious centers of Shinto, the site of the shrines of Ise. (integrated system environment) design software, ISE 5.1i. As an industry-wide popular methodology for programmable logic design, Xilinx ISE installed base includes design seats running on Windows, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Linux. Through the AllianceDeskTop program, Xilinx and its partners will work together to provide optimal software and hardware performance for programmable IC See PLD. and system design, throughout the development cycle (e.g., IC and system design entry, simulation, verification and debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. ). For development and production testing of ISE software, Xilinx is using Dell Precision Dell Precision is a line of workstation computers produced by Dell, Inc.. Current Dell Precision Desktop Models
"The new AllianceDeskTop program is right in line with our strategy to partner with world-class companies to provide engineers with complete, integrated solutions for CPLD (Complex PLD) A programmable logic device that is made up of several simple PLDs (SPLDs) with a programmable switching matrix in between the logic blocks. CPLDs typically use EEPROM, flash memory or SRAM to hold the logic design interconnections. See PLD and SPLD. and FPGA-based system design," said Babak Hedayati, senior director for Solutions Marketing and Partnerships at Xilinx. "We're delighted to formalize our longtime working relationships with Dell, HP and Sun Microsystems to ensure that our mutual customers can maximize ISE software performance. Together, we're making it possible for experienced system engineers to conceive and implement complete electronic product designs on desktop or laptop systems, using sophisticated EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. tools." "Our line of Dell Precision workstations is a great match for customers with highly-complex applications, including programmable IC and system design," said Joe Curley, senior marketing manager for Dell Precision workstations. "Xilinx ISE software leverages the performance of the Dell Precision 650 and 450 workstations' dual Xeon processors and 4.2 Gigabytes of dual-channel DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory memory to design CPLDs, which range from 32 macrocells to more than 8 million system gates." "HP has built our reputation with the engineering community by providing the highest levels of performance, memory capacity, and reliability in our products. The growing prevalence of FPGA-based design as a cost-effective alternative to traditional A SICs continues that drive in product features," added Sam Giovinazzi, North America EDA market manager at HP. "As an AllianceDeskTop partner, our goal is to offer FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. designers the benefits of Xilinx ISE software optimized for HP platforms -- ultima tely, enabling them to get to market faster." "Today's increasingly complex electronic devices benefit greatly from the flexibility of Xilinx field programmable devices," said Peter Denyer, group manager of Technical Market Development at Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Xilinx products running on scalable and powerful Sun platforms will enable engineers to produce extremely complex FPGAs and reduce time-to-market for products that employ those devices." With $1.02B in revenues in FY2002, Xilinx is the fifth largest ASIC/PLD company worldwide, according to Dataquest. The company offers customers the industry's broadest product offering, ranging from sophisticated Virtex-II Series platform FPGAs for programmable systems, with more than 8-million gates, and low-cost, high-performance Spartan Series FPGAs, to high performance, low-power CPLDs targeted at consumer markets. About Xilinx ISE version 5.1i software environment The latest version of Xilinx programmable logic and system design environment -- ISE 5.1i -- provides designers with "ASIC-strength" tools to exploit the power of Virtex-II Pro silicon, which ranges in device densities from 40,000 to more than eight million system gates. Designers are benefiting from a 2X improvement in compile times (an increase from 100,000 to 200,000 gate/min) and a 40 percent gain in device speeds over last year's software release. About the AllianceDeskTop program Xilinx is a PLD (Programmable Logic Device) Refers to a variety of logic chips that are programmable at the customer's site, the customer being the vendor of the finished chip, not the end user. supplier with more than a 50 percent market segment share. As an industry-wide popular methodology for programmable logic design, Xilinx ISE installed base includes more than 150,000 design seats running on Windows, UNIX and Linux. Through the company's AllianceDeskTop program (http://www.xilinx.com/desktops), Xilinx and its partners work together to ensure that designers have access to optimally configured workstations for fast design completion using ISE design software within a cost-effective design environment. About Xilinx Xilinx, Inc. is a provider of programmable logic and programmable system solutions. Xilinx can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.xilinx.com. For more information, call 408/879-4726. |
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