Integrated software environment design tools

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On June 25, 2007, Xilinx announced availability of the ISE 9.2i (Integrated Software Environment) design tools, the latest release of its widely-used design solution. Improvements in the ISE 9.2i release reduce memory requirements by an average of 27 percent while providing expanded support for Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP x64, and Red Hat Enterprise WS 5.0 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. To simplify multi-rate DSP designs with a large number of clocks typically found in wireless and video applications, ISE 9.2i software features breakthrough advancements in place and route and clock algorithms offering up to a 15 percent performance advantage.

ISE 9.2i software is powered by the company's latest SmartCompile technology, which cuts implementation runtimes by up to 6X while maintaining exact design preservation of unchanged logic. The new release also provides the most advanced design solution for the latest line of Xilinx 65nm Virtex-5 high-performance FPGAs and 90nm Spartan-3 generation high volume FPGAs.

Through algorithmic improvements in memory usage, ISE 9.2i design tools radically improve utilization of computing resources, providing users with greater design flexibility. This reduction in memory usage enables users to design with higher density FPGAs with the more widely available 32-bit version of Microsoft Windows XP in lieu of the previously required 64-bit operating system.