SAN JOSE, Calif., March 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc.
(NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that its SDAccel™ and SDNet™
software defined development environments were each recognized in
the 2015 Lightwave Innovation Awards Program for technical
excellence. The Lightwave Innovation Awards program
distinguishes the top products and solutions available within the
optical networking industry as determined by an independent panel
of third-party fiber optics experts.
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The Xilinx SDAccel and SDNet environments were called out for
outstanding technical achievement in the design tools category of
the awards program. All products are evaluated and scored on a
scale of one to five. Realizing a score of four or above means
that the judges believe the product provides technical features and
performance that deliver clear and substantial benefits. Each
of the Xilinx products scored 4.5.
"Achieving a 4.5 score is a huge accomplishment, and Xilinx
obviously delivered this year," said Tim
Hermes, publisher of Lightwave. "Abstracting hardware
complexity to enable software engineers to leverage the benefits of
programmable technology is a critical element for system
development and differentiated designs, and the judges have spoken
- they feel both development environments are
game-changers."
"Being cited by a set of experts in the area of networking is
particularly gratifying, as these two environments were developed
from the ground up for the programming requirements of systems and
software engineers designing networking systems and accelerated
data center applications," said Hemant Dhulla, vice president of
wired and data center business at Xilinx. "We are very proud that
these two offerings enable both easier adoption and accessibility
of FPGAs by a much broader group of engineers, while expanding the
possibilities for next generation system designs."
The Xilinx Software Defined Specification Environment for
Networking (SDNet), was introduced in March
2014 as the first member of the Xilinx SDx family. It
enables the easy creation of high performance packet processing
systems by system design and software architects with high-level
user defined specifications and compilation to highly optimized
FPGAs.
The Xilinx SDAccel Software Defined Development Environment for
Acceleration was announced in November of 2014 as the second member
of the Xilinx SDx™ family. It enables system and software engineers
to leverage FPGAs to create power-optimized, accelerated and
reconfigurable compute environments for the data center. SDAccel
brings together programming environments for OpenCL™, C, and C++,
optimized compilation and dynamically reconfigurable accelerators
under a common development environment. The 3rd member
of the Xilinx SDx family, SDSoC, was announced in early
March 2015, enabling the broader
embedded software and systems design community to leverage Zynq All
Programmable SoCs and MPSoCs.
About SDx
SDx (www.xilinx.com/sdx) is a family of
software defined development environments for systems and software
engineers. SDx enables developers with little or no FPGA expertise
to use high level programming languages to leverage the power of
programmable hardware with industry standard processors, whether on
a board or embedded in Zynq All Programmable SoCs and MPSoCs.
About LIGHTWAVE
For more than 30 years, Lightwave
(www.lightwaveonline.com) has delivered trusted technical,
application and business insights to senior-level decision makers
for optical communications worldwide. Lightwave serves technology
vendors, communications carriers and major enterprises with a
complete and nuanced picture of the optical communications business
environment. Lightwave is a valued information source for
information related to FTTx, networking, equipment design, MSO
optics, and test and measurement for corporate executives,
department heads, project managers, network engineers and others
making strategic decisions that are critical to the success of
their businesses. Lightwave is a unit of PennWell Corporation.
About the 2015 Lightwave Innovation Awards
The 2015
Lightwave Innovation Awards review and recognize the industry's
most unique products and solutions that help optical communications
professionals worldwide drive improvements and innovation in
optical technology. Executives from Huawei, Verizon, Coriant,
ADVA Optical Networking, Oclaro, and JDSU were among the
third-party judges for the 2015 Innovation Awards. Criteria used in
the Innovation Awards rankings include, first and foremost, unique
technology or application thereof, innovation, ease of use,
efficiency, reliability and contribution to profitability.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the world's leading provider of
All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs and 3D ICs. These industry-leading
devices are coupled with a next-generation design environment and
IP to serve a broad range of customer needs, from programmable
logic to programmable systems integration. For more information,
visit www.xilinx.com.
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