"Abstractions drive automation," Tom Feist of Xilinx told the Globalpress Summit in Santa Cruz this week.
"A thousand evaluations of the technology are going on right now," said Fiest referring to the company's Vivado FPGA design tool which allows FPGA users to programme FPGAs in C.
The Vivado Design Suite 2013.1 has an IP-centric design environment for accelerating system integration, and a set of libraries to accelerate C/C++ system-level design and high-level synthesis (HLS).
The aim, said Feist is : "To provide flows which don't dictate how a design team works."
Users of Vivado HLS can access video processing functions integrated into an OpenCV environment for embedded vision running on the dual-core ARM processing system.
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http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2013/04/16/55938/globalpress-summit-xilinx-extends-c-programmable-fpgas.htm
