Xilinx Acquires Assets of Falcon Computing Solutions to Advance Software Programmability and Expand Developer Community
December 01 2020 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Falcon Computing’s innovative compiler
technology makes it easier for software developers to create custom
high-performance accelerated applications using FPGAs and adaptive
SoCs
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced it has acquired
Falcon Computing Solutions, a privately-held leading provider of
high-level synthesis (HLS) compiler optimization technology for
hardware acceleration of software applications. The acquisition
will make adaptive computing more accessible to software developers
by enhancing the Xilinx Vitis™ Unified Software Platform with
automated hardware-aware optimizations.
The integration of Falcon Computing’s innovative compiler
technology into the Vitis platform will allow software developers
to accelerate C++ applications with minimal hardware expertise.
Falcon Computing’s source code transformation reduces the need for
application developers to adapt their code, or add
architecture-specific programming directives, in order to achieve
significant hardware acceleration.
“The growing demand for adaptive computing is driving a new era
of FPGA adoption in the data center and embedded applications,”
said Salil Raje, executive vice president and general manager, Data
Center Group at Xilinx. “Falcon Computing’s innovative compiler
technology and highly specialized compiler team will provide
critical expertise that will advance software programmability and
help bring the benefits of adaptive computing to more
developers.”
“Our compiler technology enables software developers to quickly
achieve an order of magnitude acceleration over CPUs with very
little knowledge of the FPGA hardware architecture, as our compiler
provides a high degree of automation to optimize off-chip data
movement, on-chip data reuse, memory partitioning, parallel and
pipelined computation acceleration,” said Dr. Jason Cong,
co-founder and chairman of Falcon Computing. “The single-source
Open-MP like programming style is very friendly to a large base of
C/C++ software developers, especially those from the
high-performance computing and embedded system communities.”
Falcon Computing was co-founded in 2014 by Dr. Jason Cong, the
Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence at the Computer Science
Department of UCLA, the Director of the Center for Domain Specific
Computing, a Fellow of ACM and IEEE, and a member of the National
Academy of Engineering. With roots in academia and research, Falcon
Computing has been at the forefront of the new wave of FPGA
adoption. Dr. Cong also co-founded AutoESL (now Vitis HLS) which
Xilinx acquired in 2010 and Neptune Design Automation (now part of
Vivado®) which Xilinx acquired in 2013. Falcon Computing is
headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif. The company serves enterprise
customers and academic institutions across the United States and
China.
Financial details of Falcon Computing and the terms of the asset
purchase transaction are not being disclosed. For more 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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