New ISE Design Suite 11.1 sets industry standard for delivering FPGA design tools and intellectual property to embedded, DSP and logic designers

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 27, 2009 – Xilinx (NASDAQ:XLNX) announced availability of the ISE® Design Suite 11.1, the industry’s first FPGA design solution with fully interoperable domain-specific design flows and tool configurations for logic, digital signal processing (DSP), embedded processing, and system-level design. The release of ISE Design Suite 11.1 is a major milestone in the delivery of targeted design platforms with simpler, smarter design methodologies for creating FPGA-based system-on-chip solutions targeting a wide variety of markets and applications.

ISE Design Suite 11.1 incorporates new features and ease-of-use enhancements to the base-level FPGA and domain-specific tools, technologies, and intellectual property (IP) components delivered with Xilinx targeted design platforms. Introduced by Xilinx with its new Virtex®-6 and Spartan®-6 FPGA families, targeted design platforms provide embedded, DSP, and hardware designers alike with access to a wide array of silicon devices supported by open standards, common design flows, IP, development tools, and run-time platforms. The ISE Design Suite 11.1 release shrinks development cycles up to 50 percent, reduces dynamic power consumption by 10 percent on average, and boosts tool performance by 2X and enables early access customers to start designing with targeted design platforms based on the latest Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 devices.

Domain-optimized Design Configurations
Each ISE Design Suite 11.1 Edition provides a front-to-back design environment built on Xilinx exclusive technologies for design entry, synthesis, implementation, and verification with integration to industry-leading third-party synthesis and simulation solutions. In this way, designers can select the configuration that is best suited to their methodology and Xilinx targeted design platform for the ultimate in productivity, fastest time to design completion, and optimal quality of results.

• ISE Design Suite Logic Edition is optimized for logic and connectivity designers with the Xilinx Base Targeted Design Platform, and includes: ISE Foundation, ISE Simulator, PlanAhead™ Design and Analysis Tool, ChipScope™ Pro Debug and Serial I/O Toolkit, extensive catalog of foundation IP, and bitstream generation/device programming utilities.
• ISE Design Suite DSP Edition isoptimized for algorithm, system, and hardware developers with the Xilinx DSP Domain Targeted Design Platform, and includes: System Generator for DSP, AccelDSP™ Synthesis Tool and DSP-specific IP, plus all base-level FPGA design tools and technologies in the Logic Edition.
• ISE Design Suite Embedded Edition is optimized for embedded system designers (both hardware and software programmers) with the Xilinx Embedded Domain Targeted Design Platform, and includes: the Embedded Development Kit (EDK) with Platform Studio Design Suite, Software Developers Kit (SDK) now also available as a standalone product, embedded-specific IP including the MicroBlaze™ soft processor, plus all base-level FPGA design tools and technologies in the Logic Edition.
• ISE Design Suite System Edition is optimized for system designers with the Xilinx Connectivity Domain Targeted Design Platform, and includes: all the tools, technologies, and IP in the Logic Edition, DSP Edition and Embedded Edition.

Higher Productivity, Faster Design, Better Results
Xilinx has also improved inter-tool communication throughout the entire design process, created seamless interoperability between all design configurations, and adopted EDA industry-standard FLEXnet licensing solutions to deliver breakthrough performance, power and cost advantages with the ISE Design Suite 11.1 release.

Embedded and DSP flows are more tightly integrated to ease implementation of embedded, DSP, IP and custom blocks into a single system. Each step within the design flow is optimized to facilitate more “turns per day” (design iterations) with new multi-threaded place and route capabilities, SmartXplorer and ExploreAhead support for distributed processing techniques, and second generation SmartGuide™ technology delivering 2X faster compile and incremental run times to accelerate timing closure. The ISE Design Suite 11.1 also features advanced power optimization algorithms and unparalleled design visibility with access to the full-featured PlanAhead Design and Analysis software for all Editions. Designers can more effectively evaluate, analyze, and optimize implementation results to achieve faster performance, greater device utilization, and higher design quality.

Availability & Pricing
The ISE Design Suite 11 with complete domain-specific editions supporting Virtex-5 and Spartan-3 FPGA families is immediately available.

U.S. list price for ISE Design Suite 11 node-locked license starts at: $2,995 for Logic Edition; $3,395 for Embedded Edition; $4,195 for DSP Edition; and $4,595 for System Edition. Flexible floating licensing options are also available. Customers can download full-featured 30-day evaluation versions of ISE Design Suite 11 Editions from the Xilinx web site at no charge. For more information about the ISE 11 software suite, visit www.xilinx.com/ISE.

Contact Information

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