Xilinx to showcase its India team's design strength at VLSI Conference, Bangalore

The FPGA semiconductor vendor, Xilinx to display its products and solutions at the 23rd International Conference on VLSI Design between January 5 and 7, 2010, in Bangalore.

Speaking about Xilinx' participation in the conference, Xilinx India's CTO, Vamsi Boppana said: "It is an intrinsic characteristic of Xilinx to interact with professionals, students, our peers and the industry at large, and we believe that we are able to add value to the overall growth and direction of the industry and its many professionals. We are very excited about the VLSI conference 2010, and we are especially eager to showcase our India design strengths at this platform."

Xilinx to showcase India design strength at VLSI conference 2010 such as,

Spartan-6 and Virtex-6 targeted reference designs for connectivity domain
Spartan-6 Air Graffiti demo: This visual demo is based on SP601 board and is targeted to video domain. It captures live video and displays the same with the new Spartan-6 and Virtex-6 logos overlaid. It also captures and traces blue light via the camera input to enable 'air graffiti'.
Partial reconfiguration demo: This demo shows the basic steps of creating and implementing a design in PlanAhead. This design targets the ML-505 prototyping board. The FPGA drives the LEDs in particular sequences depending on the reconfigurable modules loaded. The design contains two reconfigurable partitions, one with embedded BlockRAM and the other with embedded I/O buffers. Reconfiguring the various partitions drives the LEDs and I/Os differently.

Xilinx says it's offering the key elements required by a FPGA based product designer which include,

New Xilinx Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs
Design environments supporting and integrating proven methodologies
Scalable boards and kits adopting FPGA Mezzanine Connector
Socketable intellectual property (IP) cores
Robust reference designs

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