Xilinx Korea (Country Manager Ahn Heung-sik) April 17, 2014 – Xilinx has launched Vivado® Design Suite 2014.1, the industry's first SoC-intensive development environment. Vivado Design Suite 2014.1 expands the automation of UltraFast™ design techniques, achieves an average of 25% faster runtime, and improves performance by 5% across all devices. Additionally, the suite includes new hardware acceleration capabilities for the OpenCL kernel within Vivado HSL (High-Level Synthesis).

Xilinx has secured over 2,500 client companies using the UltraFast design method, and video tutorials on the technique have garnered 30,000 views. Xilinx has increased designer productivity by raising awareness and adoption of the newly developed UltraFast method. Using the UltraFast design method, designs that previously took several months to complete can be finished rapidly within just a few weeks.

In this Edition 2, the UltraFast design technique has been extended to include the latest advanced processes for Vivado, supporting 28nm 7 Series and 20nm UltraScale devices. This UltraScale architecture applies advanced ASIC technology to a fully programmable architecture that manages system performance of hundreds of gigabits per second with smart processes at full line rates and scales to terabits and teraflops. In addition, this new design technique includes everything from HLS and partial reconstruction to verification using Cadence, Mentor Graphics, and Synopsys flows.

To increase productivity through advanced processes and ultrafast design techniques, it is paramount to design that enables rapid timing closure. Vivado Design Suite 2014.1 automates correct-by-construction constraints using the latest interactive timing constraint wizard. Intelligent queries within the wizard extract not only existing constraints, primarily derived from IP reuse in the Vivado Design Database, but also clocking structures, helping users accurately apply constraints to the rest of the design.

This release also introduces the new Xilinx Tcl Store. This new Xilinx Tcl Store is a design community where users can freely share or write scripts capable of performing useful functions and increasing productivity. The Tcl Store is available within the Vivado Integrated Design Environment and serves as an open-source repository. In this open-source repository, designers can utilize scripts that perform functions that extend the core capabilities of the Vivado Design Suite, while tool experts can share code that improves the efficiency of the larger user community. Tcl applications providing features such as custom reports, analytics, optimization, tool flow control, and design changes are available immediately.