SAN JOSE, Calif., July 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc.
(NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced it has taped out the industry's first
All Programmable Multi-Processor SoC (MPSoC) using TSMC's 16FF+
process, targeting embedded vision, including ADAS and the path to
autonomous vehicles, Industrial Internet of Things (I-IoT), and 5G
wireless systems. The All Programmable Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC
enables the development of flexible, standards-based platforms by
providing 5X system level performance/watt and any-to-any
connectivity with the security and safety required for next
generation systems.
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As the world's first heterogeneous multi-processing SoC, the new
device combines seven user programmable processors including a
quad-core 64-bit ARM® Cortex™-A53 Application Processing Unit, a
dual-core 32-bit ARM® Cortex™-R5 Real Time Processing Unit, and an
ARM® Mali™-400 Graphics Processing Unit. The Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC
family also includes a host of integrated peripherals, safety and
security features, and advanced power management. When coupled with
the recently introduced SDSoC™ development environment, the new
family is enabling systems that are both software defined and
hardware optimized.
"The Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC provides an ideal mix of software
intelligence, hardware optimization, security and safety, and
any-to-any connectivity for the next-generation of smart and
connected applications," said Victor
Peng, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the
Programmable Products Group at Xilinx. "The Zynq UltraScale+
MPSoC has been specifically tailored to meet the unique
requirements of next generation embedded vision, including ADAS and
the roadmap to autonomous vehicles, industrial-IoT and 5G wireless
systems, with applicability to numerous other applications."
Enabling Embedded Vision Including ADAS, Industrial IoT, and
5G Systems
The Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC is tailored for
next-generation embedded vision systems, including industrial
machine vision, surveillance, and automotive ADAS systems. For
ADAS, the Zynq MPSoC tightly couples highly parallelized hardware
image processing and analytics acceleration with software based
algorithm configuration and control. With the addition of expanded
memory with UltraRAM™ for video buffering, throughput is maximized
and latency is reduced; a critical attribute for ADAS. Finally, to
enable real-time safety-critical countermeasure decisions and
initiate actuator commands, the Zynq MPSoC ARM with dual core
Cortex-R5 engines can be utilized in lockstep mode along with
cross-monitoring and diagnostic-protected voting in the
programmable fabric. The Zynq MPSoC was designed with
automotive ISO-26262 functional safety requirements in mind, while
still offering a scalable and highly customizable programmable
platform that will future-proof customer designs in the quickly
changing ADAS space.
For the Industrial Internet of Things, the Zynq UltraScale+
MPSoC family is ideally suited to integrate data acquisition,
perform real-time diagnostics, and enable local decision-making for
intelligent connected control systems. The combination of the MPSoC
processing subsystem, the UltraScale programmable logic fabric, and
the new UltraRAM on-chip memory technology create the ideal
platform to process the vast quantities of data for analytics and
manage real-time machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. With a
dedicated security processing unit and dual core Cortex-R5 engines
that can be configured for lockstep, the Zynq MPSoC also supports
SIL3 functional safety and security requirements.
Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC devices support the increased radio and
baseband processing requirements of next generation 5G systems.
This includes the support of new 'massive MIMO' and adaptive
beamforming architectures, CloudRAN layer 1 baseband acceleration
and associated Fronthaul applications, with flexible support of
multiple standards and multiple bands at significantly lower power.
The Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, with its quad core ARM Cortex-A53
processing subsystem, leverages an integrated fine grain power
management system to implement lower power optimal
hardware-software design for digital pre-distortion, beamforming
control functions, and system management tasks.
Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC Development Environment
Xilinx
is also offering an extremely comprehensive early access toolset
for the UltraScale+ portfolio. Tools include the SDSoC development
environment to enable a complete software defined development
alternative for systems and software engineers. In addition, the
latest release of the Vivado® Design Suite enables hardware
designers to quickly build optimized Zynq MPSoC-based platforms.
Finally, Xilinx has already provided source code to enable the open
source communities, including Linux, FreeRTOS, OpenAMP, Yocto,
QEMU, and XEN. Finally Xilinx's Software Development Kit (SDK),
PetaLinux tools, and run-time drivers and libraries complement the
total product offering and ease application development.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the leading provider
of All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, MPSoCs, and 3D
ICs. Xilinx uniquely enables applications that are both software
defined and hardware optimized – powering industry advancements in
Cloud Computing, SDN/NFV, Video/Vision, Industrial IoT, and 5G
Wireless.
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Xilinx
Silvia E. Gianelli
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626-4328
silvia.gianelli@xilinx.com
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