Xilinx ISE 9.2i Integrated Software Environment Design Tools

Xilinx has announced the latest version of its Integrated Software Environment - ISE 9.2i design tools. The new version of Integrated Software Environment  reduce 27% memory requirements and provide support for Windows Vista, Windows XP x64, and Red Hat Enterprise WS 5.0.  The new design tools  features innovative advancements in place and route and clock algorithms, this feature is important to simplify multi-rate DSP designs with a large number of clocks typically found in video and wireless applications.

The new design tools employ the Xilinx’s SmartCompile technology, cutting implementation runtimes by up to six times while maintaining exact design preservation of unchanged logic. ISE 9.2i software  also provides advanced design solution for the latest line of Xilinx 65nm Virtex-5 FPGAs and 90nm Spartan-3 generation high volume FPGAs.

Bruce Talley, Xilinx, said:

With broad availability of our feature-rich high-performance 65nm Virtex-5 FPGAs, customers are demanding more from their design platform…

ISE 9.2i, which combines advanced tools like SmartCompile technology with better usage of their computing hardware, provides faster timing closure and higher quality of results for a better time-to-market solution…

Lower Memory Requirements
ISE 9.2i design tools radically improve utilization of computing resources, providing users with greater design flexibility, enabling users to design with higher density FPGAs with widely available 32-bit version of Windows XP.

Embedded Processing and Debug
Improvements in ISE 9.2i design tools permit greater flexibility for designs which leverage embedded processors. Tighter integration with Xilinx integrated development environment for embedded design, the Platform Studio, allows embedded users improved access to the design closure tools residing within the ISE design environment.

The ISE 9.2i design suite is accompanied by the release of ChipScope Pro 9.2 debug and verification software. Available as an add-on option, the ChipScope Pro 9.2 solution reduces verification cycles by up to 50 percent. Also included is the newest release of the ChipScope Pro Serial IO Toolkit, providing simplified debugging of high-speed serial IO designs for Virtex-4 FX and Virtex-5 LXT and SXT FPGAs.

Pricing and Availability
All versions of ISE 9.2i design tools software packages support Windows XP, Windows XP x64, Windows Vista Business and Linux Red Hat Enterprise WS. ISE 9.2i Foundation, ChipScope Pro 9.2, and ChipScope Pro Serial I/O Toolkit configurations are immediately available with prices ranging from US$495 to $2495.

Free full-featured 60-day evaluation versions can be downloaded from the Xilinx web site.

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