Accelerating Productivity with Xilinx 7 Series Targeted Design Platforms

Overview:
This webinar will provide an introduction to the recently announced Xilinx Targeted Design Platforms for 7 series FPGAs. In addition to technical details of the new Kintex™-7 KC705 Evaluation Kit, Virtex®-7 VC707 Evaluation Kit and Kintex-7 FPGA DSP Kit, this broadcast will give a preview of upcoming Xilinx 7 series platforms.

Xilinx accelerates the development of 7 series FPGA designs through the immediate availability of Targeted Design Platforms. These platforms allow users to quickly evaluate the performance, power and IO bandwidth advantages of 7 series FPGA devices and design tools and to begin early development before final production boards are available. An extensive set of reference designs accelerate learning curves and can be reused in end customer designs to accelerate development.

Attendees will learn:

• How to accelerate your next design with Xilinx Targeted Design Platforms
• Technical details of the Kintex-7 KC705 Evaluation Kit, the Virtex-7 VC707 Evaluation Kit and the Kintex-7 DSP kit
• Information about upcoming Xilinx 7 series platforms

Presenter:
Evan Leal, Senior Product Marketing Manager
Evan Leal is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for Platform Solutions at Xilinx, responsible for the entire lifecycle of Kintex™-7 and Artix™-7 development kits including product planning, rollout, promotion and end of life. Evan has over 14 years experience in various management, marketing and application engineering roles. His most recent focus has been on development kits where he planned and brought to market numerous development kits including the recently announced Kintex-7 FPGA KC705 Evaluation kit. Evan previously held positions at Altera, Lockheed Martin and IBM. He has a BSEE degree from Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo.