In Conversation
They also must be scalable, with ever
more functions virtualized and
efficiently mapped onto shared
compute resources. As data and video
is captured from sensors and cameras
everywhere, analytics must enable
these machines to recognize, interpret,
decide, and act.
These systems and networks must also
meet the growing demands of
impatient end users and real time
scenarios that require immediate, low
latency response. Yet, behind the
scenes, they must process an
exponentially growing amount of data,
packets, and pixels with ever more
sophisticated algorithms while
consuming the lowest possible power.
And they must be highly differentiated, or they will fail in the
increasingly competitive and cost sensitive worldwide market.
This can only be accomplished by combining software intelligence
with hardware optimization and any-to-any connectivity.
Xilinx All Programmable Solutions enable Smarter, Connected, and
Differentiated Systems, integrating the highest levels of softwarebased intelligence with hardware optimization and any-to-any
connectivity.
Xilinx is the only company that can enable differentiation through
a combination of software intelligence and programmable
hardware optimization. All programmable devices with
programmable hardware optimization provide 4 differentiating
advantages over the type of devices (ASICs, ASSPs, GPUs, CPUs):
performance/watt, any to any connectivity, security and safety
and chameleon platforms.
ELE Times: How is Xilinx FPGA’ different from the competitors?
Giles Peckham: With an exceptional execution on the 28, 20, and
now 16 nanometer nodes, Xilinx has worked hard to maintain
three generations of technology leadership. Xilinx is the only PL
vendor fully committed to silicon products and solutions for all
market segments. Xilinx can simultaneously address today’s 3G,
4G, Pre-5G requirements with our 28, 20, and 16nm products.
Our roadmaps are aligned to customer’s 5G development needs
since they can leverage our currently shipping 16nm FF+ FinFET
based products for early development as well as have confidence
in our delivery schedules of future 7nm architectures for their
volume production.
Xilinx launched multiple product families with breakthroughs in
integration and optimization which has changed the game in
price/performance/watt and enabled programmable systems
integration. Breakthroughs also include Software Development
Environments supporting C, C++ and Open CL development, in
particular SDSoC which is the industry’s only C/C++ full-system
optimising compiler.
The Xilinx All Programmable product portfolio based on 28nm and
20nm planar and 16Fin FET+ technologies keeps customers a
generation ahead of their competition with an expansion of its
offerings from three perspectives:
Ÿ Portfolio: UltraScale™ architecture-based All Programmable
FPGAs, 3D ICs and SoCs
Ÿ Product: Co-optimized with the Vivado™ Design Suite for
extra performance, power, and integration
Ÿ Productivity: Unmatched time to integration and
implementation
Xilinx is committed to staying a generation ahead with aggressive
roadmaps across each of the three elements of its broader
portfolio, with each element supporting and reinforcing the
previous generation. With the addition of UltraScale+, Xilinx has
built upon the UltraScale architecture which allows for simple
migration between planar and FinFET nodes. This allows
customers to migrate their 20nm designs and benefit from the
performance per watt advantages of FinFET technology.
Building on the core UltraScale architecture at 20nm, Xilinx’s
16nm UltraScale+ family of FPGAs, 3D ICs and MPSoCs, combine
new UltraRAM and High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM), 3D-on-3D
and multi-processing SoC (MPSoC) technologies, delivering a
generation ahead of value. To enable the highest level of
performance and integration, the UltraScale+ family also includes
a new interconnect optimization technology, SmartConnect.
These devices extend Xilinx’s UltraScale portfolio - now spanning
20nm and 16nm FPGA, SoC and 3D IC devices - and leverage a
significant boost in performance/watt from TSMC’s 16FF+ FinFET
3D transistors. Optimized at the system level, the UltraScale+
family delivers far more systems integration and intelligence, and
the highest level of security and safety than previous generations
of technology.
The newly extended Xilinx UltraScale+ FPGA portfolio comprises
Xilinx’s market leading Kintex UltraScale+ FPGA and Virtex
UltraScale+ FPGA and 3D IC families, while the Zynq UltraScale+
family includes the industry’s first all programmable MPSoCs.
The UltraScale+ MPSoC Architecture, built on TSMC’s 16nm
FinFET process technology, enables next generation Zynq
UltraScale MPSoCs. This new architecture provides processor
scalability from 32 to 64 bits with support for virtualization, the
combination of soft and hard engines for real time control, and
graphics/video processing, waveform and packet processing, next
generation interconnect and memory, advanced power
management, and technology enhancements that deliver multilevel security, safety and reliability. These new architectural
elements are coupled with the Vivado® Design Suite and abstract
ELE Times | 59 | November, 2016