QuickStart! Product Overview

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QuickStart!

Start your design right Start your design right and minimize your riskminimize your risk with an application specific on-site engineer, to help you proactively plan to proactively plan to meet your design meet your design scheduleschedule and improve improve your design your design productivity!productivity!

It’s All About Getting Your Design Right the First Time

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Embedded QuickStart!

Specific Features

• Tailored Course: Embedded Systems Development

• 3 Day Consulting Main Deliverables/Offerings:– Configuration of the Xilinx Design Environment– Setup and customization of the EDK software– Design architecture/implementation consultation and

guidance– System partitioning consulting– Advice on utilization of advanced features and

capabilities of the Xilinx MicroBlaze soft processor and the PowerPC processor

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Timing Optimization QuickStart! Specific Features

• Tailored Course: Designing for Performance

• 3 Day Consulting Main Deliverables/Offerings:– Assistance with proper constraining techniques

(Timing Constraints/Area Groups) to help mitigate timing issues

– Best known HDL coding techniques to maximize FPGA performance

– Critiquing of customers current timing techniques and implementation tool flows

– Demonstrate debug techniques utilizing the Xilinx toolset (Floorplanner, FPGA Editor, Timing Analyzer, others)

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MGT QuickStart! Specific Features

• Tailored Course: Designing with MGTs

• 3 Day Consulting Main Deliverables/Offerings:– Understand the ports and attributes related to the

MGTs– How to effectively use the features of the MGTs– Understand the different methods of configuring

the MGTs– Board-level considerations– Importance of and how to simulate MGT designs– Implementation flow when MGTs are involved

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PlanAhead QuickStart! Specific Features

• Tailored Course: Designing with PlanAhead

• 3 Day Consulting Main Deliverables/Offerings:– Configuration of the PlanAhead™ Design

Environment – Floorplanning implementation consultation– Synthesis and project tips– Design analysis– Assistance on improving performance– Coaching on how to experiment with implementation

options, incremental methodology, block-based IP design, and I/O pin assignment

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PCIe Integration QuickStart! Specific Features

• Tailored Course: Designing a LogiCORE PCI Express System

• 3 Day Consulting Main Deliverables/Offerings:– Migrating Virtex-II Pro/Virtex-4 Softcore designs for

PCI Express into the Virtex-5 Integrated Hard Block for PCIe

– Achieving timing closure within the user logic– Evaluating design requirements to ensure the

optimal configuration for the Integrated Hard Block for PCIe - achieve desired performance and bandwidth

– Implementing MGT hardware and attribute configurations

– Providing guidance on Xilinx tool-flow - ensure best known implementation is done on your design

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Customer Results• Shortened ramp up times by

teaching essential design and debug techniques

• Empowered hardware teams by providing coaching on software based optimized systems

• Maximum performance by understanding advanced and proven FPGA design techniques

• Minimized design risks by implementing utilizing expert advice

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What Customers Have to Say

Scientific & Technology Manufacturer “Our Xilinx Engineering expert got us over several hurdles very quickly. Without the engineer’s expertise it would have taken us many weeks to overcome these challenges. We met our development schedules by engaging with Xilinx Services.”

Satellite Manufacturer “Our Xilinx Engineer has been a tremendous asset to our team, extremely competent technically and well versed on not just our tools but also the synthesis tool. He has been instrumental in our evaluation of the toolset for our current and future applications.”

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Titanium Product SummaryDescription:Immediate FPGA expertise from an application specific on-site or remote engineer, improving your design productivity and accelerating your time-to-market.

Titanium Engineers:Skilled at providing solutions and experts in Xilinx knowledgeTrusted advisors and proven to perform under time pressuresEasily integrate into a team environmentTrained in the proper handling of ITAR dataAvailable for quick deployment

Benefits:Quick and direct access to a dedicated engineerLeading edge Xilinx expert design process knowledgeLeverage in factory support of product experts

Results:Increased designer productivity = lower overall engineering costsFaster issue resolution = faster time to market- >3 month average reduction in time to production*Better design = lower BOM costs and competitive edge-35% of the engagements helped reduce customer’s BOM costs*

* This is not a guarantee and your specific results may vary

Titanium provides risk mitigation and competitive edge

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QuickStart!

• Increased engineer productivity resulting in decreased engineering costs

• Faster issue resolution resulting in faster time to market

• Better design results in lower BOM costs

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Get your design off to the right start with QuickStart!