Xilinx

Xilinx has released the first version of its Vitis development environment as the company aims to capture a user base that is more used to software than hardware tools.

The verification IP is the first to become commercially available for the bus interface backed by companies such as AMD, Google, IBM, Micron and Xilinx.

Mentor's AI Accelerator Ecosystem adds reference designs, libraries and other forms of support around its Catapult HLS platform.

Cadence has developed a version of its Protium prototyping engine that supports larger designs and which is intended to go into data-center racks.

Large-scale MCMs and novel device architectures bookend the papers on machine learning at VLSI Symposia in an event that will also cover chiplet integration and other topics.

The suite is based on Debian and aims to offer the performance and configurability needed for robust and scaleable enterprise-class applications in medical, industrial, aerospace and defense markets.

The circuits sessions at mid-June's VLSI Symposia in Honolulu feature a number of papers that improve the performance of scaled mixed-signal processes.

Xilinx plans to make reconfigurable computing the focus of its upcoming generation of FPGAs, which will be made on a 7nm finFET process at TSMC and expected to start sampling next year.

June's DAC will see the culmination of a contest involving more than 100 teams vying to demonstrate the best use of machine learning on embedded hardware in a flying drone.

The formal verification specialist will leverage its recent, successful certification by TÜV SÜD for functional safety solutions.