Xilinx Acquires Silexica to Broaden its Developer Base
June 10 2021 - 3:01AM
Business Wire
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive computing,
today announced that it has acquired Silexica, a privately-held
provider of C/C++ programming and analysis tools. Silexica’s SLX
FPGA tool suite empowers developers with an unparalleled
development experience building applications on FPGAs and Adaptive
SoCs. This technology will become integrated with the Xilinx Vitis™
unified software platform to substantially reduce the learning
curve for software developers building sophisticated applications
on Xilinx technology.
Leveraging standard high-level synthesis tools from Xilinx, the
SLX FPGA tool suite tackles non-synthesizable and non-hardware
aware C/C++ code, detects application parallelism, inserts pragmas,
and determines optimal software and hardware partitioning. This
enables designing at a higher level of abstraction, orders of
magnitude faster simulation, and a better result through high-level
optimizations and design space exploration.
“Software programmability is imperative to our long-term goal to
accelerate the path from software to application-optimized hardware
systems,” says Salil Raje, executive vice president and general
manager, Data Center Group, Xilinx. “Silexica’s technology
complements our existing Vitis solution and roadmap and will
accelerate our ability to attract a wider range of developers
seeking to leverage our heterogeneous computing architectures.”
“Silexica’s vision is to create a disruptive developer tool –
one that closes the gap between the software and hardware developer
domains,” says Maximilian Odendahl, former CEO of Silexica. “The
integration of our technology with the Xilinx Vitis portfolio fully
aligns with our goal of making adaptive computing accessible to
software developers. We are excited to continue the journey as part
of the Xilinx Vitis team.”
After six years of cutting-edge academic research, Silexica was
spun out of RWTH Aachen University in 2014. Its headquarters are in
Cologne, Germany, with offices in Silicon Valley and Japan. It
serves innovative companies in the automotive, robotics, wireless
communications, aerospace, and financial industries and has
received $28 million in funding from international investors.
Financial details and the terms of the transaction are not being
disclosed. More information on Xilinx Vitis unified software
platform is available here. You can sign up for developer-related
updates here. For information on Xilinx and its adaptable,
intelligent technologies, please visit www.xilinx.com.
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About Xilinx
Xilinx, Inc. develops highly flexible and adaptive processing
platforms that enable rapid innovation across a variety of
technologies - from the cloud, to the edge, to the endpoint. Xilinx
is the inventor of the FPGA and Adaptive SoCs (including our
Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform, or ACAP), designed to
deliver the most dynamic computing technology in the industry. We
collaborate with our customers to create scalable, differentiated
and intelligent solutions that enable the adaptable, intelligent
and connected world of the future. For more information, visit
www.xilinx.com.
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