Computing
A vocabulary of computing terms. These terms span from general purpose computing to embedded systems to high level languages and everything in-between.
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Xilinxi is the a company that provides programmable logic solutions primarily in the form of FPGAsi and CPLDs. The company was founded in 1984 and has headquarters in San Jose, Dublin and Singapore. More information can be found at Xilinx's Website.
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XUPi is an acronym for Xilinxi University Platform. The Xilinxi XUPi development board is a medium density device targeted for educational use. The centerpiece of these devices is the Xilinxi Virtex-II Pro XC2VP30 FPGAi which features 30,816 logic cells, 136 18-bit multipliers, 2,448Kb of BRAMi, and two PowerPC 405 processors
In addition to the FPGAi, the development board contains many integrated peripherals such as a DDR DIMM, a 10/100 ethernet port, a compact flash slot, a XSGA VGA port, an audio codec, a serial port, and other devices. Due to their versatility, these boards can be deployed across a curriculum from use in simple systems courses to fully fledged embedded systems design and research