Xilinx expands its portfolio of cost-optimized products for a wide range of applications such as embedded vision and the Industrial Internet of Things

     Xilinx, a global leader in All Programmable technology and devices, announced the expansion of its cost-optimized chip product portfolio for a wide range of applications including embedded vision and industrial iot, including its Spartan, Artix and Zynq family. Designed to meet the needs of next-generation applications for arbitrary interconnection, sensor fusion, precise control, image processing, analysis, security and confidentiality.

     Today's embedded vision and industrial iot applications require the collection, collation and analysis of data from many different sensors to provide actionable information. Whether it's adapting the function of multi-sensor cameras in the factory floor or developing an intelligent drone with an innovative guidance system based on sensor fusion, designers can build part or the entire system using Xylinx FPGA and SoC products.

     Kirk Saban, senior director of FPGA and SoC product management and Marketing at Xilinx, said: "With this new and expanded family of cost-optimized products, Xilinx once again reinforces its commitment to providing a full range of solutions for cost-sensitive applications. "Our newly expanded product family, which includes the Spartan-7 family, additional Artix-7 products and Zynq-7000 single-core devices, provides the industry's best power performance solution at a lower cost, as well as processors with higher scalability."

     The new Spartan-7 series is the industry's only 28nm FPGA in an 8x8mm package, making it the most cost-effective interconnection solution in the portfolio, meeting both traditional and cutting-edge interface requirements while enabling sensor fusion and high-precision control with the highest power consumption performance ratio in an ultra-small size.

     The addition of Artix-7 extends the family's industry-leading edge in transceiver and signal processing performance. This new family of FPGas provides best-in-class image processing bandwidth in the field of multi-sensor embedded vision and enables higher power efficiency at lower densities.

     The new Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC single-core device gives engineers access to a fully scalable ARM® processor-based Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC platform at a lower cost. It also provides cost-optimized single-chip solutions for analytics and cloud connectivity. The product family uses a multi-tiered approach to security and confidentiality, including processor-driven secure boot and the latest generation of bitstream encryption authentication technology, to meet the growing network security requirements in iot security. These new products extend the recently announced dual-core CG MPSoC product family, providing a single-core to dual-core option for dual-A9 cores from single-core to 28nm process nodes, and then dual-A53 cores from 16nm process.

     These enhanced, cost-optimized product lines will be supported by the upcoming Vivado Design Suite 2016.3 for IP - and system-centric design and implementation, as well as the Xilinx SDx™ software-defined design environment. It can help both software and hardware developers meet the rigorous design schedule requirements of cost-sensitive markets. Free VivadoDesign SuiteWebPACK™ versions, VivadoDesign and System versions support all new Spartan-7 series, Artix-7 FPGA and Zynq-7000S series devices. Enable users to take advantage of these new devices to start development immediately.