EDN

Xilinx joins the OpenCL effort, as part of All Programmable Abstractions initiative

OpenCL has found more support among Altera partners, but has needed another major FPGA vendor to support this open language, originally developed by Apple Inc. In mid-September, Xilinx announced it ...
insideHPC

How OpenCL Could Open the Gates for FPGAs

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe explains how OpenCL may make FPGAs an attractive option. In January 2015, FPGAs took a step closer to the mainstream of ...
EDN

FPGA IDE is OpenCL standard compliant

This product is featured in EDN's Hot 100 products of 2015. See all 100 here. The Xilinx SDAccel integrated development environment for OpenCL, C, and C++ complies with the Khronos OpenCL 1.0 ...
Design-Reuse

Xilinx Announces SDAccel Development Environment for OpenCL, C, and C++, Delivering Up to 25X Better Performance/Watt to the Data Center

Combines the first architecturally optimizing compiler, libraries, development boards, and the first complete CPU/GPU-like development and run-time experience for FPGAs NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 17, 2014--At ...
Design-Reuse

Xilinx SDAccel Development Environment for OpenCL, C, and C++, Achieves Khronos Conformance

Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that the SDAccel™ development environment for OpenCL™, C, and C++ is now Khronos OpenCL 1.0 standard compliant. The OpenCL standard provides a uniform ...
The Next Platform

An Expanding Role for FPGAs in CERN’s Future

Over the course of the last year in particular, particularly following Intel’s acquisition of FPGA maker, Altera, field programmable gate array have risen to the fore as a potential accelerator cure ...
The Next Platform

OpenCL Opens Doors to Deep Learning Training on FPGA

Hardware and device makers are in a mad dash to create or acquire the perfect chip for performing deep learning training and inference. While we have yet to see anything that can handle both parts of ...
Electronics Weekly

Xilinx, MathWorks and National Instruments work on high-level FPGA design

Xilinx is working with MathWorks and National Instruments to offer IP-based design environments for its Zynq system-on-chip FPGA devices. The design tools offer graphical and text-based programming ...
Business Wire

Impulse Helps Xilinx SDAccel Users Accelerate Their Software Applications on FPGA Hardware

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Offloading compute-bound CPU applications to FPGA is a powerful method to improve the speed of image, signal and data processing -- but the tools may be challenging ...
Forbes

Xilinx FPGAs: The Chip Behind Alibaba's Singles Day

Most Americans consider Black Friday to be the biggest shopping extravaganza of the year. No doubt it is huge, with an estimated $5B in all U.S. retail sales (online and in-store) on Black Friday 2017 ...
New Electronics

IBM, Xilinx partner to speed FPGA based application development

In a move intended to make FPGA based application development faster and more accessible, IBM and Xilinx are collaborating on a cloud based approach. The partnership will see Xilinx’ SDAccel ...