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SLX FPGA v2019.4 Delivers an Average of 45x HLS Performance Improvement

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 16, 2019 — (PRNewswire) —  Silexica ( silexica.com) has announced the release of SLX FPGA v19.4, designed to help developers prepare and optimize C/C++ code for high-level synthesis (HLS) in Xilinx's VivadoTM and VitisTM HLS design flows. SLX FPGA v19.4 provides performance improvements that deliver, on average, a 45x increase in performance by leveraging SLX's FPGAs parallelism detection and automatic HLS pragma insertion when compared to no HLS pragmas.

Maximizing Design Performance 

Adopting an HLS methodology presents challenges that must be considered and overcome during the design process. SLX FPGA tackles the challenges associated with the HLS design flow, including non-synthesizable C/C++ code, non-hardware aware C/C++ code, detecting application parallelism, and pragma insertion location to help engineers prepare and optimize their C/C++ application code for HLS. 

"The release of SLX FPGA v19.4 represents another significant step forward in bridging the gap between software development and designing an FPGA," said Jordon Inkeles, VP of Product at Silexica. "Using Xilinx Vivado HLS design flow with Silexica's advanced C/C++ analysis, SLX FPGA provides unmatched insights into application code to help Xilinx's customers maximize their design performance."  

SLX FPGA helps enable software developers to save months of development effort by performing:

"Design space exploration can be quite difficult with high-level, synthesis-based designs," said Hiroaki Yamashita, Senior Professional Engineer at Fujitsu Kyushu Network Technologies Limited. "SLX FPGA provides insights into our C/C++ applications that allow us to make informed design decisions and help us significantly reduce the amount of time required to complete an HLS-based design."

New features and enhancements to SLX FPGA v19.4 include:

Please contact us if you are interested in seeing a live demo or exploring an evaluation of SLX FPGA.

About Silexica

Silexica provides software development solutions that enable technology companies to take intelligent products from concept to deployment by mastering state-of-the-art computing at the edge. The SLX programming tools analyze how software runs on heterogeneous compute platforms and provide deep system understanding for the developer.

Founded in 2014, Silexica has received $28 million in funding. Headquartered in Germany with offices in the U.S. and Japan, Silexica's team of leading software engineers supports hardware and software engineers in the automotive & ADAS, aerospace & defense, 5G wireless, robotics, and other rapidly transforming industries.

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