New to the award winning design tool and IP suite are enhancements which improve productivity across SoC design teams and progression towards true plug-and-play IP that targets Spartan®-6, Virtex®-6 and 7 series FPGAs, including the industry-leading 2-million-logic-cell Virtex-7 2000T device.

Focusing on decreasing development time and cost, ISE Design Suite 13 introduces accelerated verification, plug-and-play IP with IP-XACT support and a new team design methodology that shortens design as Xilinx delivers FPGAs with multi-million system gate capacities, such as the Virtex-7 2000T device built using Stacked Silicon Interconnect technology, as well as capabilities to combine serial, parallel and digital signal processing on a single chip, and offer transceiver speeds of up to 28 Gbps, the need for productivity is paramount in these highly complex designs.