Press Releases - 2002

Product Announcements

December 2002

• World's Leading Computer Companies Join New Xilinx AllianceDesktop Partner Program - December 23, 2002
• Xilinx Chips Provide Safe Holiday Highways With $49 Stocking Stuffer - December 23, 2002
• Xilinx Announces Cost Optimized SPI-4.2 "Lite" IP Core - December 19, 2002
• Xilinx Announces Virtex-II Pro FPGA Die Size Advantage - December 18, 2002
• Free Xilinx Picoblaze Microcontroller Expands Support to Virtex-II Series FPGAs and CoolRunner-II CPLDs - December 18, 2002
• MontaVista and Xilinx Announce Availability of Embedded Linux Platform for ML300 Development Board for Virtex-II Pro
  - December 16, 2002
• Xilinx Design Services Helps Architect Industry's First 10 GBPS Fibre Channel Technology - December 6, 2002
• Tarari Adopts Xilinx Technology for Reconfigurable Content Processor Solutions
  - December 3, 2002

November 2002

• New Xilinx System Generator For DSP V2.3 Tool Enables Lowest Cost, Highest Performance FPGA Designs
  - November 26, 2002
• Xilinx Reduces Development Cost While Accelerating Programmable Systems Design With New Evaluation Platform
  - November 25, 2002
• Xilinx and Agilent Technologies Demonstrate World's First PowerPC with RapidIO Interface
  - November 19, 2002
• Xilinx Delivers New High-Density Spartan-IIE Devices, Extends World's Lowest Cost FPGA Product Line - November 18, 2002
• Xilinx Targets Pro Video Broadcast Segment with New eSP Web Portal - November 18, 2002
• Xilinx Offers CoolRunner-II Design Kit in Effort to Further Develop Emerging CPLD Markets
  - November 12, 2002
• PhatNoise Develops In-Car MP3 Digital Media Player Using Xilinx Low-Power CPLDs
  - November 12, 2002
• Xilinx and AMCC Collaborate to Deliver Reference Platform, Accelerating the Deployment of 10 GBPS NPU-Based Systems
  - November 7, 2002
• VDO Dayton MP3 CD Tuner Uses World's Lowest Cost FPGA from Xilinx for New Auto Entertainment System  - November 4, 2002
• Xilinx and Virtex-II PRO FPGAs Enable XAUI De-Skew Validation at University of New Hampshire 10Gb Ethernet Interoperability Group Test - November 4, 2002
• Xilinx Expands Industry Leading High-Speed Serial I/O Solutions to Bring Next-Genration Connectivity to the Masses - November 4, 2002
• Xilinx Delivers Fully Programmable Solution for Sonet Backplanes - November 4, 2002

October 2002

• Xilinx Extends Leadership in FEC Technology with Turbo Products Code Cores for FPGAs
  - October 31, 2002
• Xilinx and SDR Forum Collaborate to Acclerate Software Defined Radio Technology and Adoption 
- October 31, 2002
• Embedded Development Kit Enables Low Cost Processor Solution - October 31, 2002
• Xilinx Delivers New ISE Embedded Development Kit for the Fastest FPGA Processor Solution in the Industry
  
- October 28, 2002
• Xilinx Expands Programmable Systems Solutions with Groundbreaking Co-Design Technology
- October 28, 2002
• Xilinx Unveils "High-Speed Serial Initiative": A Vision & Roadmap for New-Generation Connectivity Solutions
- October 21, 2002
• Xilinx Releases Aurora Open Protocol to Significantly Reduce System Cost and Increase Bandwidth 
- October 21, 2002
• Xilinx Extends Line of Automotive Chips with Two New Intelligent Devices - October 21, 2002
• Xilinx and Acunia Deliver a Complete Programmable Solution for Next-Generation Telematics
- October 21, 2002
• Xilinx Announces Industry's First Programmable Crossbar Switch Solution
  - October 16, 2002
• Xilinx and Crossbow Technologies Announces Parallel Processing Fabric IP for Programmable System Design
  
- October 16, 2002
• Xilinx and Tensilica Announce Configurable Processor Support for Programmable Systems Design 
- October 16, 2002
• New Version of MXE II Lowers Cost of Development for Engineers Using Xilinx Programming Logic 
- October 15, 2002
• Exclusive New Technology from Xilinx Accelerates the Verification of Programmable Logic Designs 
- October 15, 2002
• Italtel Uses Xilinx Virtex FPGAs to Deliver Cost Effective Data and Voice Integration Solution
  - October 8, 2002
• Xilinx and Agilent Technologies Deliver Combined Solution to Cut Cost and Time of Programmable In-Circuit System Design
  - October 7, 2002
• Xilinx and Gibson Guitar Team to Deliver the Music Industry's First True Digital Guitar
  - October 6, 2002
• Xilinx ISE WebPACK 5.1i Supports New Devices and Tools to Improve User Productivity
  - October 1, 2002
• Xilinx Rolls Out Industry's Most Comprehensive Design Resource for CPLD Applications - October 1, 2002

September 2002

• Xilinx and PMC-Sierra Announce Availability of Interoperable SPI-4.2/POS-PHY Level 4 Solution with Dynamic Alignment - September 24, 2002
• Xilinx Ships 40 Millionth Spartan Device - World's Lowest Cost FPGA
  - September 23, 2002
• Xilinx Ships World's First PowerPC with RapidIO Interface - September 23, 2002
• Xilinx Ships Industry's First Complete DSP Solution with Support for RapidIO Interface
  - September 23, 2002
• Latest Version of Xilinx System Generator for DSP Tool Compliant with the Mathworks Release 13 
- September 23, 2002
• Baranti Designs "Imaging Solution of the Year" Using Xilinx Low Cost FPGAs
  - September 18, 2002
• Xilinx Demonstrates World's First PCI Express Product at Fall 2002 Intel Developer Forum - September 10, 2002
• Xilinx and Accelight Team To Deliver High Performance Agile Service Aggregation Solutions - September 10, 2002
• Xilinx and Paxonet Communications Announce Industry's Most Complete Platform FPGA-Based LAN/WAN 10 Gigabit Ethernet Solution - September 9, 2002
• Ignis Otpics and Xilinx Demonstrate 2.5 GBPS Serial Optical Interface Ineroperability
  - September 3, 2002

August 2002

• Sales of Xilinx Flagship Virtex-II Programmble Chips Exceed $150 Million in Revenue
  - August 28, 2002
• Xilinx Announces World's Fastest Software for Programmable Logic and System Design: ISE Version 5.1i - August 26, 2002
• Xilinx Debuts Industry's First IBM CoreConnect Integrated Bus Analyzer for Real-Time, On-Chip Debug Verfication
  - August 26, 2002
• Latest Virtex-II Pro Offering From Xilinx Provides 40 Percent Performance Increase
  - August 26, 2002
• Xilinx Extends Speed and Density Leadership by Shipping Industry's Largest and Fastest Programmable IC - August 12, 2002

July 2002

• Ineoquest Technologies Achieves Rapid Development of Gigabit Ethernet Test System Using Xilinx Platform FPGAs - July 30, 2002
• Xilinx Rallies Industry Leaders to Breakthrough Metro Area Networking Bottleneck
- July 25, 2002
• Xilinx and Paxonet Communications Announce Industry's First Programmable STS-192 Sonet Solution - July 25, 2002
• Xilinx and Bay Microsystems Announce OEM Application Development Platform for Montego Network Processor - July 25, 2002
• Xilinx and IPS Cut Power Consumption on 10 Gb/s Line Cards by 75% With New
Virtex-II Platform FPGA-Based Network Processor
- July 25, 2002
• Xilinx and Allegro Networks Collaborate on New Multi-Router Edge Network Technology 
  
- July 25, 2002
• Endeavor Delivers Co-Design/Co-Verification Solution for Xilinx Virtex-II - July 23, 2002
• Avnet Design Services and Xilinx Announce First Programmable Development Platform for RapidIO Interconnect - July 23, 2002
• Lantern Communications Delivers Carrier Class Ethernet Services Using Xilinx Virtex-II Platform FPGAs - July 23, 2002
• Xilinx Enables Instant Deployment of New PCI Express Technology - July 22, 2002
• Xilinx Announces New Metro Access Networking Segment on eSP Web Portal
  
- July 22, 2002
• Mentor Graphics and Xilinx to Develop Co-Verification Solutions for Xilinx - July 22, 2002
• Xilinx Ships Industry's First FPGA-Based Solution for HyperTransport Applications
  
- July 15, 2002
• Xilinx Extends Lead in System Connectivity, Ships Industy's First Complete RapidIO Endpoint Core - July 15, 2002
• Xilinx and Paxonet Communications Announce Industry's First Programmable G.709-Based Optical Transport Network (OTN) Solutions - July 9, 2002
• Seakr Engineering and Xilinx Collaborate to Develop New Radiation Tolerant Solution for Space-based Applications - July 9, 2002
• MontaVista Software and Xilnx Announce Complete Linux Development Environment for Virtex-II Pro FPGA - July 8, 2002
• Zettacom and Xilinx Collaborate on Reference Design Board to Demonstrate 10G Ethernet Connectivity - July 3, 2002
• Xilinx Ships Industry's First FPGA-Based Solution for SFI-4 and XSBI Applications
  
- July 2, 2002
• Bivo Networks Teams with Xilinx to Deliver Industry's First Gigabit Speed Carrier Class IP Service Platform - July 1, 2002

June 2002

• Memec Design's Virtex-II Pro Development Kit Expedites Evaluation of the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro Family - June 26, 2002
• Teradyne, Cadence and Xilinx Announce Industry's First Multi-Gigabit Backplane to FPGA Design Solution - June 26, 2002
• Xilinx Announces Membership in Resilient Packet Ring Alliance - June 26, 2002
• Xilinx Enables 300 MSPS Programmable DSP Systems With New Virtex-II Pro FPGAs
  - June 24, 2002
• Xilinx Ships System Generator For DSP V2.2 Tool - June 24, 2002
• Xilinx Announces Membership in Metro Ethernet Forum - June 19, 2002
• Xilinx and Alcatel Broaden Ethernet Connectivity Solutions for Virtex-II Platform FPGAs - June 19, 2002
• Xilinx Changes Programmable Logic Landscape with Expanded Virtex-II Pro Family
  - June 17, 2002
• Xilinx and Xebeo Communications Team Up to Bridge the Metro Area Network Gap
  - June 12, 2002
• Major EDA and ESL Companies Support On-Demand Architectural Synthesis Methodology Enabled by Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs
  - June 10, 2002
• Xilinx Media Alert for DAC - June 5, 2002
• Xilinx and TeraCross Collaborate to Introduce Terabit Packet Scheduling Solution
  - June 3, 2002
• Spirent Communications Selects Xilinx Virtex-II Platform FPGAs for 40G Optical Transport Analyzer - June 3, 2002

May 2002

• Luminous Networks Uses Most Powerful Chips from Xilinx to Ensure Flexible Metro Area Network Solutions - May 29, 2002
• Xilinx and Duma Video Announce Breakthrough MPEG Encoder Performance Using Virtex-II Platform FPGAs - May 21, 2002
• Axis Systems Uses World's Largest FPGAs from Xilinx to Deliver Most Efficient Verification System in the Industry - May 20, 2002
• Xilinx and Nallatech Ship XtremeDSP Development Kit for Industry's Most Advanced FPGAs - May 14, 2002
• Xilinx Virtex Series Reaches One Billion Dollars in Cumulative Revenue, In Record Time - 
May 13, 2002
• Xilinx and UPS Logistics Group Announce Singapore Order Fulfillment Center
  - May 6, 2002
• Avnet Design Services and Xilinx Announce Spartan-IIE FPGA Evaluation Kit - May 2, 2002
• Avnet Design Services and Xilinx Announce New Virtex-II Development Kit - May 1, 2002
• Xilinx Widens Undisputed FPGA Processor Leadership - May 1, 2002

April 2002

• Xilinx and EV Engineering Deliver MHZ Co-Simulation With Virtex-II Technology
  - April 22, 2002
• Xilinx Unveils Open Protocol Initiative For Scalable Serial Connectivity Aimed At Cutting System Costs and Development Time
  - April 15, 2002
• Xilinx Ships Industry's First Programmable 10Gb Ethernet Mac With XAUI - April 15, 2002
• Media Alert For Programmable World 2002 Simulcast - April 12, 2002
• Xilinx Enables Flexible and Low Cost Forward Error Correction Solutions With IP Cores Optimized For Spartan-IIE FPGAs
  - April 10, 2002
• Xilinx Expands Digital Communication Design Solutions With New and Enhanced IP Cores For Virtex-II Platform FPGAs
  - April 10, 2002
• Photon Vision Systems Chooses Xilinx Platform FPGAs For Production of New CMOS Image Sensor Digital Imaging Modules
  - April 10, 2002
• Xilinx and CoWare Announce Collaboration For System-Level Design of Virtex-II Pro FPGAs
  - April 8, 2002
• Pathways Development Group Develops Video Game Interface For People With Disabilities Using Xilinx Spartan-II FPGAs
  - April 4, 2002
• Xilinx Announces Highly Anticipated Keynote Speaker For Programmable World 2002
  - April 3, 2002
• TippingPoint Technologies Chooses Xilinx Platform FPGAs To Develop Industry's First United Network-Defense Appliances
  - April 3, 2002
• EE Times' Editor-In-Chief Brian Fuller To Provide Broad Industry Perspective At Programmable World 2002 
- April 1, 2002

March 2002

• Altra Broadband Teams with Xilinx to Deliver Two Microsecond 1024 Point FFT
  - March 27, 2002
• Xilinx Virtex-II Platform FPGAs Validate World's First 10 Gb/s Multi Protocol Module from Network Elements - March 27, 2002
• Avnet Design Services and Xilinx Announce CoolRunner-II CPLD Evaluation Kit
  - March 26, 2002
• Xilinx Introduces Breakthrough Cost Reduction Technology for Virtex-II FPGA Family
  - March 25, 2002
• Industry Expert Nick Tredennick To Deliver Keynote Address At Programmable World 2002 - March 25, 2002
• Velio and Xilinx Collaborate On Reference Design Board To Demonstrate 10G Ethernet Connectivity - March 19, 2002
• Xilinx-Cray Collaboration Advances Supercomputing Technology - March 18, 2002
• Xilinx Announces New Device Support in Free ISE WebPACK version 4.2i - March 14, 2002
• Xilinx Teams With The Mathworks, Mentor Graphics and Synplicity To Deliver Second Generation XtremeDSP Software Evaluation Kit
  - March 13, 2002
• Xilinx and Cadence Introduce Spectraquest Design Kit for Virtex-II Pro FPGAs
  - March 13, 2002
• Xilinx Expands XtremeDSP Initiative Through Strategic Alliance with Cadence Design Systems - March 12, 2002
• Cadence and Xilinx Form Strategic Alliance to Provide Best-in-Class Development Tools for Advanced FPGAs - March 11, 2002
• Xilinx ChipScope Pro Supports the Industry's First Integrated Bus Analyzer for Programmable Logic
• Xilinx Introduces Breakthrough Virtex-II pro FPGAs To Enable A New Era of Programmable System Design - March 4, 2002 
• Virtex-II Pro Technical Backgrounder
• Virtex-II Pro Frequently Asked Questions & Answers
• Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs First To Enable End-To-End Connectivity For Next Generation Data Communications Systems - March 4, 2002
• Xilinx Announces System Generator For PowerPC To Enable Rapid Development of Programmable Systems - March 4, 2002
• Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs Deliver Leading Price and Performance For High Density Programmable Systems - March 4, 2002
• Xilinx Supports New Synthesis Solution From Mentor Graphics - March 4, 2002

February 2002

• Xilinx Announces Continued Expansion of Common License Consortium and Widespread Acceptance of The Signonce IP License
  - February 28, 2002 
• Xilinx and Cast Announce Immediate Availability of Digital Video Technology Cores
  - February 26, 2002
• Xilinx Announces Programmable World 2002 with IBM, Wind River, and a Dozen Other Industry Leaders - February, 25, 2002
• Xilinx and UMC Announce Revolutionary CPLD Process Technology Roadmap
  - February 25, 2002
• Xilinx Extends Power Management Solution with New Web-Based Power Consumption Tool -February 20, 2002
• Xilinx Delivers it's Largest-ever Performance Lead over the Competition with 70 Percent Better Results in ISE 4.2i Software
  - February 19, 2002
• Xilinx Enters the Linux World with ISE 4.2i Release Delivered on RedHat v7.2
  - February 19, 2002
• Xilinx Joins the Joint Photographic Experts Group - February  19, 2002
• ADI Engineering and Xilinx Announce Big-Endian Capable Reference Design For The Intel Xscale Microarchitecture - February 14, 2002
• Xilinx Announces Microblaze Development Kit 2.1:  New Features Enhance Industry's Fastest Soft Processor - February 14, 2002
• Xilinx and DigitalMentors Team Up to Offer E-Learning Solutions for Home Networking and Digital Video - February 12, 2002
• Xilinx Enables Low Cost Ethernet-Over-Sonet Solutions: Ships IP Cores Optimized For The New Spartan-IIE FPGAs - February 6, 2002
• Xilinx and Partners Expand Excryption/Decryption Solutions With Low-Cost and High Performance AES Cores
  - February 5, 2002
• Xilinx Enables Point Grey Research to Create World's Smallest Firewire Camera
  - February 5, 2002
• Xilinx and Model Technology Deliver Five Times the Improvement in Verification with Extended OEM Relationship - February 4, 2002

January 2002

• Italtel Chooses Xilinx Virtex-II FPGAs For High Performance, Rapid Prototyping System 
  
- January 30, 2002
• Evertz Microsytems Creates Digital-to-Analog Converter for HDTV Using Xilinx FPGAs
  - January 29, 2002
• Xilinx Delivers Programmable Solution to Combat Mobile Phone Theft - January 28, 2002
• Wind River and Xilinx Announce Strategic Alliance To Deliver Development Tools for Xilinx FPGAs - January 28, 2002
• Xilinx Virtex-II Family Receives Product Of The Year Award From ElectronicProducts
  - January 23, 2002
• Xilinx and Convergent Design Introduce New Low-Cost Digital Video Hardware Reference Design - January 22, 2002
• Insight Electronics Offers CoolRunner-II Development Kit: Speeds Evaluation of the Xilinx CoolRunner-II CPLD Family - January 15, 2002
• Xilinx Delivers Revolutionary CPLD Solution with CoolRunner-II Family - January 14, 2002
• Digital Broadcast Pioneer Goes Live with Xilinx Platform FPGAs - January 8, 2002
• Xilinx Announces Membership in MPEG-4 Industry Forum - January 8, 2002