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Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs Enable PCI Express Compliant System Design for Low-Power, Low-Cost Connectivity Applications

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Oct. 5, 2009 -- Xilinx (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced that its low-cost Spartan®-6 FPGA family is compliant with the PCI Express® 1.1 specification, enabling low-risk and ...
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Xilinx Launches First Design Platforms for Accelerating 7 Series FPGA Design Productivity and System Integration

See Industry's First Complete Development Kits for Increasing System Performance, Lowering Power, and Reducing BoM with 28nm FPGA Technology at DesignCon 2012 SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 31, 2012-- Xilinx, ...
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Using SPI Flash with 7 Series FPGAs

Xilinx FPGAs require that a configuration bitstream is delivered at power-up. The SPI flash memories use a 4-wire synchronous serial data bus. The SPI flash ...
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Research points to vulnerability in Xilinx FPGAs

A recent paper published by a team of German researchers concludes that the bitstream encryption mechanism of Xilinx Virtex-4 and Virtex-5 FPGAs can be “completely broken with moderate effort” through ...