Powerful and pro­gramma­ble, Xilinx devices hand­le real-time pro­ces­sing for a wide ran­ge of Sony’s pro­fes­sio­nal products

Sep 29, 2021 — SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the lea­der in adap­ti­ve com­pu­ting, today announ­ced that its field-pro­gramma­ble gate array (FPGA) and adap­ti­ve sys­tem-on-chip (SoC) devices are powe­ring a ran­ge of Sony’s elec­tro­nics pro­ducts used for pro­fes­sio­nal audio-video (A/V) appli­ca­ti­ons, inclu­ding the new XVS-G1 4K Live Pro­duc­tion Swit­cher. Tog­e­ther, the com­pa­nies’ cut­ting-edge tech­no­lo­gies are making pos­si­ble the most advan­ced A/V pro­ducts in the world, used to cap­tu­re and broad­cast live events worldwide.

The Xilinx^® Vir­tex^® UltraS­ca­le+™ FPGA with High Band­width Memo­ry (HBM) plays a cri­ti­cal role in the new XVS-G1 video swit­cher, which inhe­rits fea­tures and capa­bi­li­ties of pri­or models while adding cut­ting-edge tech­no­lo­gy for enhan­ced visu­al pro­ces­sing of live events with a maxi­mum capa­ci­ty of 24 4K UHD chan­nels. The Xilinx device’s embedded HBM con­trol­ler and high-per­for­mance trans­cei­vers enable high-speed pro­ces­sing at high reso­lu­ti­on 4K with wide color gamut, and high dyna­mic ran­ge at ultra-low laten­ci­es. This will be the first broad­cast video swit­cher to be deploy­ed for live sports and live events using Xilinx’s HBM technology.

Xilinx is a lea­der in semi­con­duc­tors for the pro­fes­sio­nal A/V mar­ket. For over two deca­des, the com­pa­ny has offe­red fle­xi­ble, dif­fe­ren­tia­ted and stan­dards-based solu­ti­ons that com­bi­ne soft­ware pro­gramma­bi­li­ty, real-time video and audio pro­ces­sing, hard­ware opti­miza­ti­on and the any-to-any media con­nec­ti­vi­ty requi­red for Sony’s pro­fes­sio­nal A/V systems.

“Xilinx tech­no­lo­gy has hel­ped us impro­ve the real-time pro­ces­sing and rou­ting of video and audio in our new XVS-G1 swit­cher,” said Mr. Koi­chi Yama­na­ka, Seni­or Gene­ral Mana­ger, Media Solu­ti­on Busi­ness Divi­si­on, Sony Cor­po­ra­ti­on. “We use Xilinx devices becau­se their archi­tec­tu­re gives us fle­xi­bi­li­ty, allo­wing us to cus­to­mi­ze and update capa­bi­li­ties to ali­gn with the rapidly-chan­ging mar­ket needs as well as the spe­ci­fic pro­duct needs of our customers.”

In addi­ti­on to the new swit­cher, Xilinx devices are being used in a wide ran­ge of Sony’s pro­fes­sio­nal solu­ti­ons, including:

• VENICE full-frame digi­tal cine­ma camera
• FX9 full-frame 6K sen­sor camera
• BVM-HX310 31-inch 4K TRIMASTER HX™ Pro­fes­sio­nal Mas­ter Monitor
• HDC-5500 three 2/3‑inch 4K CMOS sen­sor por­ta­ble sys­tem came­ra and the HDCU-5500 Came­ra Con­trol Unit

“Sony offers a com­pre­hen­si­ve solu­ti­on suite that spans cap­tu­ring, pro­ces­sing and recor­ding. We are proud that our adap­ta­ble and fle­xi­ble devices make pos­si­ble the real-time video and audio pro­ces­sing for many Sony pro­ducts inclu­ding the latest XVS fami­ly of pro­duc­tion swit­chers,” said You­sef Kha­li­lol­lahi, Vice Pre­si­dent, Asia Paci­fic, Xilinx.

More infor­ma­ti­on on the Xilinx Broad­cast and Pro A/V port­fo­lio can be found at https://www.xilinx.com/applications/broadcast.html.

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About Xilinx

Xilinx, Inc. deve­lo­ps high­ly fle­xi­ble and adap­ti­ve pro­ces­sing plat­forms that enable rapid inno­va­ti­on across a varie­ty of tech­no­lo­gies — from the cloud, to the edge, to the end­point. Xilinx is the inven­tor of the FPGA and adap­ti­ve SoCs (inclu­ding our adap­ti­ve com­pu­te acce­le­ra­ti­on plat­form, or ACAP), desi­gned to deli­ver the most dyna­mic com­pu­ting tech­no­lo­gy in the indus­try. We col­la­bo­ra­te with our cus­to­mers to crea­te sca­lable, dif­fe­ren­tia­ted, and intel­li­gent solu­ti­ons that enable the adap­ta­ble, intel­li­gent, and con­nec­ted world of the future. For more infor­ma­ti­on, visit xilinx.com.