Stefan Mileschin

Some of the key elements of the embedded market are cost, power and efficiency. A number of applications for embedded vision and IoT, when applying complexity, rely on the addition of additional fixed function of variable function hardware to accelerate throughput. To that end, the product has multiple FPGA/SoC devices to achieve the goal. The FPGA market is large, however Xilinx is in the process of redefining their product ecosystem to include SoCs with FPGAs built in: silicon with both general purpose ARM processors (Cortex-A series) and programmable logic gates to deal with algorithm acceleration, especially when it comes to sensor fusion/programmable IO and low-cost devices. As a result, Xilinx is releasing a new single-core Zynq 7000 series SoC with an embedded FPGA, as well as new Spartan-7 and Artix-7 FPGAs focused on low cost.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10701/...ix-7-zynq-7000