SAN JOSE, Calif., May 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc.
(NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced the 2015.1 release of the SDAccel™
development environment for OpenCL™ framework, C, and C++. The
SDAccel development environment is a member of the SDx™ family of
development environments for systems and software engineers,
enabling up to 25X better performance/watt for data center
application acceleration leveraging FPGAs. This new release
enhances the SDAccel integrated development environment (IDE),
extends OpenCL standard compliance, and features an expanded
ecosystem of SDAccel development environment-certified Alliance
Members providing platforms, libraries, and design services.
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SDAccel Development Environment Enhancements
The SDAccel development environment 2015.1 release provides new
ease-of-use enhancements to the Eclipse-based SDAccel IDE including
new debug and profiling features to accelerate the development and
deployment of OpenCL, C, and C++ kernels. In addition, the release
expands on SDAccel development environment Khronos standard
compliance with support for a new OpenCL Installable Client Driver
(ICD). With the ICD extension, multiple implementations of OpenCL
can co-exist on the same system, enabling applications developers
to select real-time between CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs for run time
acceleration and power savings.
"Bitfusion maximizes performance of existing data center
applications through a combination of hardware accelerators, unique
software abstractions and libraries. While we enable 'plug and
play' acceleration, we also depend heavily on the underlying vendor
hardware and tools to deliver high levels of performance," said
Subbu Rama, CEO of Bitfusion.io,
Inc. "As users of the Xilinx® Kintex® UltraScale™ FPGAs and the
SDAccel development environment, we have been happy with the
evolution of the environment and the great support provided by
Xilinx to demonstrate OpenCL FPGA acceleration for applications in
bioinformatics, scientific computing, search, computer vision, and
media encoding."
Expanded Ecosystem for Platforms, Libraries, and Design
Services Providers
Building on the SDAccel development environment-certified
ecosystem announced in November 2014,
Xilinx has welcomed new Alliance members offering development
boards, market-specific libraries, and design services. New
development boards include the Xilinx® Kintex® UltraScale™ KCU105
Evaluation Kit, the Micron Pico Computing SB-850 board with support
for Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC), the Alpha Data ADM-PCIE-KU3 board and
the 4DSP CES820 commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) compact embedded
system.
New and updated Xilinx optimized libraries include OpenCV, BLAS,
and machine learning deep neural network (DNN) libraries from Auviz
Systems. Additionally, machine learning libraries are also
available from new Alliance member, ArrayFire.
"ArrayFire is known for its 'blazing fast' software library for
GPU computing. Just a few lines of code from the ArrayFire
libraries replaces dozens of lines of raw code, saving valuable
time and lowering development costs." said John Melonakos, CEO of ArrayFire. "We have
partnered with Xilinx to leverage our domain expertise with the
SDAccel development environment to now offer a machine learning
library and design services for data center FPGA-based OpenCL
application acceleration."
In addition to accelerating end application development of
algorithms, libraries and FPGA-based kernels, Xilinx formed a
global ecosystem of design services Alliance Members providing
design teams around the world with the ability to leverage
FPGA-based acceleration of their OpenCL, C and C++ applications.
New design services members include ArrayFire, Cluster Technology
Limited, Impulse Accelerated Technologies, Instigate Design, Irish
Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC), and MulticoreWare, Inc.
Availability
To learn more about the SDAccel development environment, visit
www.xilinx.com/sdaccel where you will find new QuickTake video
tutorials, documentation and links to the SDAccel development
environment-certified Alliance members. To access the capabilities
of the SDAccel development environment, please contact your local
sales representative.
About SDx
SDx™ is a family of 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 on
or off chip. To learn more visit www.xilinx.com/sdx.
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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Gianelli
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