Xilinx increases Zynq-7000 SoC performance to 1GHz
Xilinx has upgraded the peak processing performance of its Zynq-7000 'All Programmable' SoC family to 1GHz while offering smaller form factor packaging.
The company says these enhancements will expand the system value of many high end image and graphic processing applications in the medical, aerospace and defence markets, as well as computationally intensive systems targeting wired and wireless equipment.
"The combination of the processor sub system running at 1GHz with the acceleration capability that the tightly coupled programmable logic offers, puts the Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC on par, and often ahead, of competing dual core solutions with higher processor frequencies, and in many cases at lower power," said Vidya Rajagopalan, Xilinx's vp of processing solutions. "A significant factor behind our ability to take the Zynq-7000 family to 1GHz is Xilinx's choice of TSMC's 28nm HPL process, which we are using for our entire 28nm generation to bring the value of low power with high performance to customers."
