Xilinx said in February that its targeted design platforms would be supported by IP cores, design environments, reference designs and scalable boards and kits offered by Xilinx and third-party partners. “They can start with a domain-specific system, add their secret sauce, and get to market quickly,” Feist said. Each edition provides an FPGA design flow tailored for the user profile and domain-specific methodology and design environment requirements, according to Xilinx (San Jose, Calif.).Įchoing what Xilinx executives said about targeted design platforms at the product introduction event in February, Tom Feist, senior marketing director for ISE Design Suite, said the domain-specific editions would enable designers to focus their efforts on creating value-added, differentiated product applications. ISE 11.1 is available in four domain-specific design configurations: the Logic Edition, DSP Edition, Embedded Edition, and System Edition. “It is a focus for us to build a base foundation that others can build upon much more easily than we've done in the past,” said Mark Goosman, Xilinx senior product marketing manager. is now shipping ISE Design Suite 11.1, described as the first FPGA design tool set with interoperable domain-specific design flows and tool configurations for logic, digital signal processing (DSP), embedded processing and system-level design.Īccording to representatives from Xilinx, the release of ISE 11.1 marks a milestone in the delivery of targeted design platforms, a strategy that the company articulated in February when it launched the next generations of its high-end Virtex and low-cost Spartan FPGAs. SAN FRANCISCOProgrammable logic vendor Xilinx Inc.