Account Language Toggle Shopping Cart APPLICATIONS PRODUCTS DEVELOPER ZONE SUPPORT ABOUT Home About Xilinx Research Labs Research Labs Xilinx Research Labs provides technology leadership through its contributions to the company’s strategy and vision. The organization creates new technology opportunities for future products, works on emerging engineering challenges, and de-risks technologies which are critical to the business goals of the company. We actively engage with universities, start-ups, and customers who are early technology adopters to discover new challenges and get feedback on new ideas. Research Areas Current research topics include : High Level Design Flows Because today’s FPGAs are capable of integrating complete systems on chip, there is a growing need for FPGA tools and methods to support the design of complex systems-on-chip that are characterized by highly concurrent, heterogeneous computing, stringent real-time constraints and sophisticated communication networks. Heterogeneous Multi-core Architectures Programmable platform FPGA’s allow for the implementation of multi-core architectures that combine traditional microprocessors with application-specific processing cores. This is enabled by tools that guide designers during the partitioning and mapping of high-level specifications onto a combination of software running on embedded processors and hardware implemented in programmable logic. "More than Moore’s Law" Future FPGAs will continue to benefit from Moore’s law. Advances in process scaling will be combined with new circuit and architectural insights along with innovations in system-in-package technology to solve IO bottlenecks and integrate heterogeneous technologies. These innovations will allow designers to build higher performance and lower power systems that optimally exploit the programmable FPGA architecture. Advanced Applications in Network Processing, Signal Processing, and Embedded Systems As FPGA platforms continue to deliver more performance at lower cost and lower power, they are becoming the heart of embedded applications such as complex packet processing for networks with line rates of 400+ Gbps; high performance digital signal processing in novel wireless baseband and radio functions; and future video and image processing systems. Research Partners CDSC - The Centre for Domain-Specific Computing at UCLA is developing a Customizable Heterogeneous Compute Platform for Medical Image Processing. The platform consists of a heterogeneous set of adaptive computational resources connected with high-bandwidth, non-traditional reconfigurable interconnects resulting in orders of magnitude increase in compute efficiency. NetFPGA - The NetFPGA is a line-rate, flexible, and open platform for research, and classroom experimentation. WARP - Rice University's WARP is a scalable and extensible programmable wireless platform, built from the ground up, to prototype advanced wireless networks. RAMP - University of California, Berkeley’s RAMP project provides system platform which enables research in the areas of operating system, compilers, debuggers, programming languages, and scientific libraries development involving multi-core chips. Keynotes and Publications Keynote at SEMICONWest2012 Conference, July 2012 Keynote at 19th RAW 2012, June 2012 Article in Xcell Journal, 2nd Quarter 2012 Keynote at 3-D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging, December 2011 Presentation at IEEE/ACM ANCS Symposium, October 2011 Worldwide Labs Locations San Jose, California Longmont, Colorado Dublin, Ireland Hyderabad, India Quick Links Xilinx University Program Boards and Kits Related Information All Programmable Leadership A Generation Ahead at 28nm Delivering a Generation Ahead at 20nm and 16nm Company Overview Management Team Customer Innovation Corporate Responsibility and Citizenship Environment, Health & Safety Technology Ventures Community Engagement Research Labs Xcell Publications Events Applications Shaping the Future Solutions by Market Partners Products FPGAs & 3D ICs SoCs & MPSoCs Cost-Optimized Portfolio Core Technologies Quality & Reliability Developer Zone Software Zone Hardware Zone System Zone Acceleration Zone Embedded Vision Zone Support Downloads & Licensing Community Forums Product Return Knowledge Base About Xilinx Press Room Xcell Daily Blog Video Portal Careers Events Download XilinxGo Mobile app Connect on LinkedIn Follow us on Twitter Connect on Facebook Connect on Google+ Watch us on YouTube Subscribe to Newsletter Join our Support Forums © COPYRIGHT 2017 XILINX INC. PRIVACY TRADEMARKS LEGAL FEEDBACK SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSPARENCY CONTACT US