Introducing the ISE Design Suite 10.1 - Unified Release Offering Breakthrough Improvements in Productivity, Performance & Power

ISE® Design Suite 10.1, a single unified release providing FPGA logic, embedded and DSP designers with immediate access to the entire line of Xilinx design tools with full interoperability. The ISE Design Suite 10.1 delivers:

* Significantly faster implementations with an average of 2X faster run times, allowing designers to complete more turns per day

* New SmartXplorer technology, to address the top challenges of the design community – timing closure and productivity

* Enhanced power analysis and power optimization delivering an average 12% lower dynamic power

* Support for the new Virtex®-5 FXT family of FPGAs – the ultimate system integration platform

In addition, ISE Foundation™ now includes access to PlanAhead™ Lite, a subset of the award-winning PlanAhead Design and Analysis Tool. PlanAhead Lite includes the PinAhead technology providing earlier FPGA to PCB I/O definition. PinAhead offers an intuitive solution to the complexities of managing the interface between an FPGA and the PCB.

The ISE Design Suite combines the Xilinx Design Tools for Embedded, DSP, and Logic design. This includes the following individual products:

* ISE Foundation Software

* ISE WebPACK™ Software (Free Download)

* ISE Foundation Software with the ISE Simulator

* Platform Studio and the Embedded Development Kit (EDK)

* PlanAhead Design and Analysis Tool and PlanAhead Lite

* ChipScope™ Pro Tool

* ChipScope Pro Serial I/O Toolkit

* System Generator for DSP

* AccelDSP™ Synthesis Tool

Download Now! – Get a free 60-day evaluation of any of the products in the ISE Design Suite 10.1 and begin your design today!

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