Xilinx Highlights Smarter Vision Solutions at the Embedded Vision Alliance Summit and DESIGN West 0

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), a platinum sponsor for the Embedded Vision Alliance Summit, will present challenges and opportunities in embedded vision systems, supporting the companys initiative to enable Smarter Vision systems. In addition, Xilinx Alliance Program members will also demonstrate how All Programmable devices are enabling smarter embedded systems at DESIGN West 2013. Xilinx All Programmable Smarter Vision solutions combine the Zynq -7000 All Programmable system-on-a-chip (SoC), Vivado High-Level Synthesis (HLS) and IP Integrator (IPI) software tools, OpenCV libraries, SmartCORE IP, and ecosystem solutions to accelerate the development of Smarter Vision applications.

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Xilinx at the Embedded Vision Alliance Summit San Jose McEnery Convention Center, Room 230A, 230B, 230C

Presentations

Challenges and Opportunities in Accelerating OpenCV

Xilinx engineering director, video technology, Jose Alvarez, will explore the challenges and opportunities in creating embedded vision applications that require real-time performance which is achieved through a combination of software and hardware-based libraries.

Vision-Based Automotive Driver Assistance Systems: Challenges and Approaches

Xilinx senior system architect, automotive solutions, Paul Zoratti, will describe the objectives and results of a project to realize a multi-camera, multi-feature driver assistance system processor on an all programmable SoC architecture.

Demonstrations

Vivado Design Suite showcasing a tightly integrated development tool flow using the OpenCV library, Vivado HLS, and IPI showing how to rapidly convert C-level algorithms into RTL to validate in hardware, better manage complex designs with hierarchical video system design capture, and accelerate development by integrating open standards libraries like OpenCV.

Advanced Driver Assistance System Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC running a 360-degree surround vision and rear view camera system showcasing applications such as lane departure warning and pedestrian detection.

All Programmable Solutions Displayed Throughout DESIGN West 2013

As part of the ARM Connected Community, Xilinx is leveraging the strength of the ARM ecosystem to provide a complete solution, from design to manufacture and end use visit the ARM booth (#1708) and participate in the ARM passport program.

Additionally, 11 Xilinx Alliance Program members will showcase Xilinx technologies in their booths:

National Instruments Booth #1716

Seven demonstrations and two papers highlighting Xilinx All Programmable FPGAs and Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs.

Cyth: Using NI Single Board RIO to develop a bioreactor and a tomotheropy controller based on Cyth Systems Circaflex.

Test: Using NI FlexRIO to automate production test of semiconductor components.

Guitar Effects: Using LabVIEW and NI Single Board RIO to produce FPGA generated guitar effects.

Test Drive: Using NI CompactRIO and Single Board RIO to implement and tune a PID controller.

Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC: LabVIEW running on a Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC

Gears: Using NI CompactRIO and NI SoftMotion to coordinate 6 different motion axis using both NI and non-NI hardware.

Image processing: Compares CPU vs NI FlexRIO FPGA-based vision processing

In addition, two papers are being presented by National Instruments that highlight Xilinx All Programmable technologies: Fully Reconfigurable Motion Control for Embedded Machine Design on Wednesday, April 24 at 9:15am in Salon 1 and We See You! The Rise Of Embedded Vision on Wednesday, April 24 at 4:30pm in Salon 4.

3D Plus Booth #1439

Demonstration of 64 Mb PROM configuration memory and DDR2 memory specifically developed to support space-grade Virtex -5QV FPGAs.

Express Logic Inc. Booth #1328

Demonstration of Iperf network performance on a Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC board.

Fidus Systems Inc. Booth #1624

Demonstration of an 802.11n WiFi stack running on a Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC and 8-channel JESD204B ADC FMC daughter card for Virtex-7 FPGAs.

Green Hills Software Booth #1320

Demonstration of Green Hills Softwares Safety certified tool suite on a Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC ZC702 board. The demonstration will run an application on the INTEGRITY RTOS and includes the TimeMachine debugger that takes advantage of live CPU on-chip generated trace data.

Lauterbach Booth #2006

Demonstration of the Lauterbach TRACE32-PowerTrace-II ICD debugger with ETM trace on a Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC board.

Micrium Booth #2220

uC/OS-II and uC/OS-III support for the Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC.

Mentor Graphics Booth #1908

Nucleus RTOS support for the Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC.

PLDA Booth #727

Demonstration of a 2D graphics animation running on a Zynq-7045 All Programmable SoC-based System-on-Module connected to a LCD enabled carrier card, and featuring a combination of the ARM dual-core Cortex -A9 MPCore processor software and FPGA fabric design IP working simultaneously.

Demonstration of PCI Express Gen3 running on a Xilinx KC705 board with real-time bidirectional traffic and throughput measurement.

SEGGER Microcontroller Booth #1329

embOS RTOS support for the Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC.

Wind River Systems Booth #926

VxWorks, Linux, and Workbench support for the Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC.

About Xilinx Smarter Vision Solutions

Xilinx Smarter Vision solutions include a broad portfolio of building blocks for smarter systems, called SmartCORE IP. The SmartCORE IP portfolio, developed by both by Xilinx and its ecosystem, includes both hardware IP targeting All Programmable logic and software IP deve

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