Xilinx makes first shipments of Zynq
Xilinx has made the first shipments of Zynq devices, a move which it says is a 'major milestone' in the roll out of the embedded processing platform. The company has made the first public demonstration of a Zynq-7000 at the ARM European Technical Conference.
The Zynq-7000 family, described as an extensible processing platform, combines an ARM dual core Cortex-A9 MPCore processing system with Xilinx' 28nm programmable logic fabric. The combination is said to offer 'asic like' levels of performance and power consumption, along with the flexibility of an fpga and the programmability of a microprocessor.
Amongst the early adopters of Zynq is National Instruments. According to Jamie Smith, director of embedded systems product marketing at National Instruments: "Now that we've received the silicon, we'll continue our development toward providing control and monitoring systems to our customers leveraging the increased capabilities of Zynq-7000 devices."
