Xilinx acquires assets of Falcon Computing Solutions
Summary
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. “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 specialised 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 optimise 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. With roots in academia and research, Falcon Computing has been at the forefront of the new wave of FPGA adoption. Financial details of Falcon Computing and the terms of the asset purchase transaction are not being disclosed.