BEIJING, Dec. 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- (Xilinx
Developer Forum China 2019) – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the
leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, today announced its
AI inference development platform, Vitis™ AI is available for
immediate download free of charge.
Combined with the Vitis unified software platform, Vitis AI
empowers software developers with deep learning acceleration, as
part of their software code. Vitis AI integrates a domain-specific
architecture (DSA) and configures Xilinx hardware to be optimized
and programmed using industry-leading frameworks like TensorFlow
and Caffe. It provides the tools to optimize, compress and compile
trained AI models running on a Xilinx device in as little as one
minute. Xilinx has also open sourced Vitis accelerated
libraries and Vitis AI models, as well as corresponding
example designs that can be used from endpoint to edge in
addition to cloud platforms.
At the Xilinx Developer Forum (XDF) Americas in early October,
Xilinx first unveiled Vitis (pronounced Vī-tis), a unified software
platform that enables a broad new range of developers – including
software engineers and AI scientists – to take advantage of the
power of hardware adaptability. Five years and a total of 1,000 man
years in the making, Vitis automatically tailors the Xilinx
hardware architecture to the software or algorithmic code without
the need for hardware expertise. Rather than imposing a proprietary
development environment, the Vitis platform plugs into common
software developer tools and utilizes a rich set of optimized open
source libraries, enabling developers to focus on their
algorithms.
Vitis is separate to the Vivado® Design Suite, which
will still be supported for those who want to program using
hardware code, but the new platform can also boost the productivity
of hardware developers by packaging hardware modules as
software-callable functions.
The Xilinx developer site provides easy access to examples,
tutorials and documentation, as well as a portal to connect the
Vitis and Vitis AI developer community.
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About Xilinx
Xilinx develops highly flexible and adaptive processing
platforms that enable rapid innovation across a variety of
technologies – from the endpoint to the edge to the cloud. Xilinx
is the inventor of the FPGA, hardware programmable SoCs, and the
ACAP, designed to deliver the most dynamic processor technology in
the industry and enable the adaptable, intelligent, and connected
world of the future. For more information, visit
www.xilinx.com.
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