Founded in 1984, Xilinx has a strong heritage in innovation with over 4400 patents and over 60 industry firsts. Today, the company develops highly flexible and adaptive processing platforms and is on a mission to build the adaptable, intelligent world by increasing the speed of applications such as machine learning and artificial intelligence.
To help achieve this goal, last year Xilinx launched Vitis and Vitis AI. The unified software platform offers a design methodology and programming model that enables all developers, including software and algorithm engineers with no hardware design expertise, to leverage the power of Xilinx adaptive platforms for edge to cloud deployments.
Five years in the making and the work of some 800 software engineers, Vitis includes a rich set of open-source performance-optimised libraries, runtime libraries and drivers that abstract away the low-level specifics of data movement and synchronisation and comprehensive developer tools to build, analyse performance bottlenecks and debug accelerated algorithms for Xilinx platforms.