Xilinx Korea (Country Manager Heung-Sik Ahn) July 24, 2015 – Xilinx announced support for early access to the Vivado Design Suite for the 16nm UltraScale™+ portfolio, including Zynq® UltraScale+ and Kintex® UltraScale+ devices. This Vivado tool early access release is optimized for UltraScale+ ASIC class programmable logic to leverage the full benefits of UltraScale+ devices and comes with the complete catalog of SmartCORE™ and LogiCORE™ IP.

In addition, software development for the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC family is possible using the Xilinx Software Development Kit (SDK) and PetaLinux tools. The Xilinx SDK provides a comprehensive Eclipse-based environment for developing or debugging software applications on MPSoC processor subsystems. Software teams can begin development immediately using Xilinx's robust and scalable QEMU emulation platform.

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For more information on the Vivado Design Suite Early Access tool for UltraScale+ portfolios, you can contact an official distributor. More detailed information about Xilinx software development environments and embedded platforms can be found in the Xilinx Software Developer Zone.

Xilinx UltraScale+ Portfolio

The FPGA's 16nm UltraScale+™ product family, along with 3D ICs and MPSoCs, combines new memory, 3D-on-3D, and Multi-Processing SoC (MPSoC) technologies to elevate performance and integration to a new level, while implementing SmartConnect interconnect optimization technology. System-level optimized UltraScale+ delivers 2 to 5 times higher system-level performance per watt than 28nm devices, guarantees the highest levels of system integration, intelligence, security, and safety, and provides value that goes beyond traditional process node migration.