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It’s a Programmable World Programmable World 2003 workshops offer detailed instruction in tools, technologies, and methodologies of system designs. by David Vornholt AllianceEDA Program Manager Xilinx, Inc. david.vornholt@xilinx.com Why spend your evenings and weekends wading through product datasheets and application notes? Time to knowledge is just as important as time to market. In the international series of forums and workshops that make up Programmable World 2003, Xilinx and its partners have created dozens of free technical seminars designed to stir your imagination, accelerate your design cycle, and reduce the overall design cost. An Ecosystem of Leaders The driving concept behind Programmable World 2003 has been the recognition that we do not work in a vacuum. Recognizing this, Xilinx has partnered with such industry leaders as IBM, Agilent Technologies, Cadence Design Systems, Wind River Systems, and Mentor Graphics ® . The synergy of Xilinx and our partners plays an inherent role in the success of your designs. The definition and implementation of your design involves support from not just your IC supplier but also from your EDA, embedded tool, IP, and design service partners. This is our “ecosystem” of companies that want to support your Xilinx-based design. Cost-Sensitive Designs The accessibility and usability of cuttingedge technologies will be demonstrated at Programmable World. For example, the Xilinx Spartan-3 family is based on IBM and UMC’s advanced 90 nm, 8-layer metal process technology. Xilinx is using 90 nm technology to drive high-volume pricing down to under $20 per unit by the end of 2004 for one-million-gate FPGAs. This represents a cost savings of up to 80 percent compared to competitive offerings. Programmable World Forums The Programmable World forums, which were held earlier this year, comprised high-level discussions and demonstra- tions from Xilinx and the partners mentioned above. Other forum participants were Boeing, Intel, and Texas Instruments, among others. Attendees included hardware engineers, ASIC designers, system engineers, system architects, executives, and researchers from more than 27 industries and government agencies, ranging from home networking to the military. In the forums, panelists and presenters explored the end-use possibilities and real-world design challenges of using multi-gigabit I/Os, embedded processors, low-cost platforms, and DSP solutions: ■ IBM discussed the design methods associated with the integration of new processor architectures in FPGA-based systems. ■ Cadence Design Systems and Xilinx described the challenges – and solutions – when upgrading existing systems for higher bandwidth. ■ Agilent Technologies addressed the growing difficulties of system verification and hardware/software debugging. ■ Xilinx presented strategies for solving the connectivity challenges of integrating ASSPs, network processors, and memory devices. ■ Xilinx described the use of processor cores to combine the strengths of both the processor and logic for optimum performance and cost. ■ Xilinx examined technical trends in DSP and presented a case for new architectures and system-level design methodologies. ■ Xilinx also demonstrated PCI Express, RocketPHY, MicroBlaze/Spartan-3, and DSP system products. Agilent, Cadence, 74 Xcell Journal Fall 2003
Celoxica, IBM, Mentor Graphics, Nallatech, Synplicity ® , and The MathWorks demonstrated their respective technologies. ■ In a panel discussion entitled “What’s Required to Make High- Speed Serial Design a Reality,” panelists from Agilent, Cadence, IBM, Intel, Mentor Graphics, Texas Instruments, and Xilinx confirmed the impending proliferation of serial technology and systems. The panelists also highlighted the technologies they’re creating in anticipation of high-speed serial design demands. User Applications The Programmable World forums also included presentations on actual programmable system designs: ■ Christopher Musial, a technical fellow at Boeing-SVS, gave a presentation entitled “Programmable Systems Transform the Design and Implementation of Adaptive Optics Systems.” This case study illustrated the design processes and issues related to the implementation of a Xilinx Platform FPGA in a realtime adaptive optics control system. As Musial explained, the project had stringent constraints for cost, performance, power, and maintainability – parameters challenging many designers today. ■ “A Highly Scalable FPGA-Based Car Infotainment Platform Solution” was the topic of Dr. Karlheinz Weiss’ presentation. Dr. Weiss, the director of electronic system development at Elektroniksystem und Logistik GmbH, described the planning, specification, and implementation phases of an automobile infotainment system using Virtex-II Pro and Spartan FPGAs for the processing platform. This design integrated audio, navigation, telephone, Internet services, telematics services, and video. For those of you who missed the forums component of Programmable World – as well as those who wish to relive the experience – many of the presentations are viewable through the video-on-demand feature at www.xilinx.com/pw2003. Free “University Style” Workshops Xilinx has also developed a second component to the Programmable World forums – a series of workshops from September to November 2003. After learning about the high-level concepts discussed at the forums, you now have the opportunity to drill down to the details of creating your particular design. The workshops are organized into four major “tracks,” each comprising six onehour sessions. You can attend any of the 24 sessions. ■ Track A: Designing Flexible and High-Performance DSP Systems. When does it make sense to use DSP processors or platform FPGAs individually, and when does it make sense to combine the unique signal processing capabilities of both? Example scenarios help illustrate how to best answer these design dilemmas. Also, industryleading DSP solution providers including The MathWorks, Nallatech, Texas Instruments, and Xilinx explain how they can help designers outsmart Moore’s law and dramatically reduce the development time and cost of high-performance DSP systems. ■ Track B: Integrating High- Performance Embedded Processing Solutions. This track focuses on technologies of interest to embedded systems designers from companies such as Altium, IBM, Wind River Systems, and Xilinx. ■ Track C: Implementing Cost- Effective Connectivity Solutions. Seeking low-cost connectivity applications? Cadence, Intel, and Xilinx present examples of gigabit Ethernet applications; implementation of high- speed parallel and multi-gigabit serial interfaces for chip-to-chip and backplane communications; and designing with serial technology. ■ Track D: Effective System Design for Programmable Systems. FPGAs provide a variety of flexible and powerful capabilities and have evolved into true system platforms. This track offers engineers new and innovative information from Agilent, Celoxica, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, Synplicity, and Xilinx on how to extract the most performance from your system designs. Locations and Dates The schedule for Programmable World 2003 workshops this year is: September 2003 San Jose, CA: September 3 Woodland Hills, CA: September 4 San Diego, CA: September 5 Stuttgart, Germany: September 9 Munich, Germany: September 10 Stockholm, Sweden: September 11 Helsinki, Finland: September 12 Madrid, Spain: September 15 Paris, France: September 16 Eindhoven, Netherlands: September 17 Leuven, Belgium: September 18 Boston, MA: September 19 Ottawa, Canada: September 22 Toronto, Canada: September 24 Dallas, TX: September 25 Chicago, IL: October 2003 September 26 Shanghai, China: October 20 Hsinchu, Taiwan: October 22 Seoul, Korea: October 24 November 2003 Tokyo, Japan: November 14 Conclusion The Programmable World 2003 series of tradeshows, forums, and workshops can solve your time-to-knowledge headaches by giving you access to critical information from industry leaders in international venues. The topics are focused on providing costeffective solutions to meet your time-to-market and performance goals. For more information or to register for workshops, visit www.xilinx.com/pw2003/ workshop/. Like the forum presentations, the first Programmable World workshop in San Jose will be available in the last quarter of 2003 as a video-on-demand. Fall 2003 Xcell Journal 75
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