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Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA Family Achieves Full Production Qualification on UMC’s High-Performance 40nm Xilinx, a leading global semiconductor foundry, and Xilinx Inc. today announced they have fully qualified the Virtex(R)-6 FPGA family on the foundry's high-performance 40nm logic process. The qualification is the result of the close work between engineering teams from both companies to further enhance yield, reliability and cycle time. The full qualification of the Virtex-6 family signifies the transition to 40nm volume production following UMC's first shipments of the devices in March 2009.
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New Xilinx Connectivity, Embedded, and DSP Kits Enable Increased Productivity and Innovation for System-on-Chip Designs. Xilinx, Inc. today announced six new development kits as part of its Targeted Design Platforms for enabling developers to focus on innovation and differentiation when designing with FPGAs. These development platforms for the Virtex®-6 and Spartan®-6 families significantly shorten the time it takes to reach optimal levels of system performance, while ensuring low levels of power consumption during system-on-chip (SoC) development. The new kits target embedded processing, DSP and the building of systems that require high-speed serial connectivity by providing design teams with optimized tool suites tuned to their design flow, fully functional IP, and Targeted Reference Designs common to their areas of expertise.
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