Design Reuse Initiative Datasheet

Xilinx Launches Design Reuse Initiative
New tools allow you to capture and share your own IP over the Internet.

Xilinx recently announced a design reuse initiative aimed at helping you implement designs for reuse and share your intellectual property (IP) internally.

The first offerings include:
• The IP Internet Capture tool - allows you to easily capture and package intellectual property (IP) you have already created for Xilinx FPGAs and share it inside your organization with other design teams, over the Internet.
• The IP Remote Interface tool - provides you (and third-party developers) with a method to integrate your own parameter driven IP with the Xilinx CORE Generator system. These cores can be distributed or sold over the Web in a secure environment.

As part of the initiative, Xilinx also created a manual named Xilinx Design Reuse Methodology for ASIC and FPGA Designers, a supplement to the Reuse Methodology Manual from Synopsys and Mentor Graphics. The Xilinx Reuse manual provides guidelines for designers who want a common strategy for reusing intellectual property, regardless of whether it was developed for ASICs or for FPGAs.

The new IP Internet Capture tool, the first of a planned series of programmable logic design reuse software products from Xilinx, provides you with an automated method to identify, capture, and document a module of synthesizable VHDL or Verilog code, or a fixed function netlist. The IP Internet Capture tool prompts you for key reuse information such as module naming and cataloging information, important to large designs, we also want to help customers leverage the tremendous value of the intellectual property they have developed internally for FPGAs. This initiative goes handin-hand with our recent announcement of the new Virtex-E multi-million-gate FPGAs, and it will help customers address challenges of reuse, modular design techniques, and team-based design.”

IP Internet Capture Tool
“Xilinx customers have been using milliongate FPGAs for more than a year, and they have benefited from leadership products such as the Xilinx 64-bit, 66-MHz PCI core for those devices”.

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