Xilinx SDAccel and NI LabVIEW Communications System Design Suite win a pair of EETimes/EDN ACE Ultimate Product Awards

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Last night, EETimes and EDN presented a number of ACE Awards including twelve “Ultimate Product” awards. The Xilinx SDAccel Development Environment for C, C++, and OpenCL won the Ultimate Product Award in the Development Kits category.
EETimes/EDN 2015 ACE Awards
From the SDAccel entry form:
“The SDAccel development environment for OpenCL, C, and C++, enables up to 25X better performance/watt for data center application acceleration leveraging FPGAs and combines the industry’s first architecturally optimizing compiler supporting any combination of OpenCL, C, and C++ kernels, along with libraries, development boards, and the first complete CPU/GPU-like development and run-time experience for FPGAs. SDAccel streamlines the development and deployment of critical algorithms such as Deep Neural Networks used in machine learning.
SDAccel includes the industry’s first architecturally optimizing compiler that makes efficient use of on-chip FPGA resources along with a familiar software-development flow based on an Eclipse integrated design environment (IDE) for code development, profiling and debugging, providing a CPU/GPU-like work environment.
SDAccel leverages Xilinx’s dynamically reconfigurable technology to enable accelerator kernels optimized for different applications to be swapped in and out on the fly. The applications can have multiple kernels swapped in and out of the FPGA during run-time without disrupting the interface between the server CPU and the FPGA for nonstop application acceleration. This functionality is ideal for swapping applications during peak loading periods.”
(Note: For more information about the Xilinx SDAccel design environment, see “CPU/GPU-like software development environment for OpenCL, C, C++ delivers FPGA-based app acceleration with 25x better performance/W,” “and “Latest SDAccel release adds 4 new hardware dev platforms, 4 new libraries, 6 new design services firms.”)
Vinay Singh accepts an ACE Award for the SDAccel design environment from Max Maxfield
The LabVIEW Communications System Design Suite from National Instruments (NI) won the ACE Ultimate Product Award in the Software category. NI’s LabVIEW Communications System Design Suite combines software defined radio (SDR) hardware with a comprehensive, unified software design flow to help engineers prototype 5G systems. The package includes built-in application frameworks for WiFi and LTE that enable wireless developers to focus on creating specific components based on existing standards rather than designing new algorithms from scratch.
The LabView Communications System Design software is coupled with the company’s USRP software-defined radio development platform for 5G research, which is based on a Xilinx Kintex-7 All Programmable FPGA. Wireless engineers can use the NI USRP RIO and the NI LabVIEW Communications System Design software to rapidly prototype real-time wireless communications systems and test them under real-world conditions.
(Note: For more information about the NI LabVIEW Communications System Design Suite, see “LabVIEW Communications System Design Suite combines SDR hardware with a unified software design flow for 5G development.”)
Congratulations to all of the talented developers from both National Instruments and Xilinx who created these award-winning products.
 

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