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Xilinx Press Release # 0694

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Xilinx Event Alert 

XILINX DEMONSTRATES PCI EXPRESS SOLUTIONS AT FALL 2006 INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM

What: Xilinx PCI Express Solutions at Fall IDF 2006
Where: Moscone Center West
San Francisco, CA Booth #430-PCI Community
When: September 26-28, 2006

SAN JOSE, Calif., September 25, 2006 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that its industry-leading programmable logic solutions for PCI Express will be showcased at the Fall Intel Developer Forum, September 26-28, 2006 in San Francisco. Xilinx will feature its high performance and lowest-cost programmable PCI Express solutions that enable instant deployment of the PCI Express technology. The solutions include fully verified LogiCORE™ PCI Express IP cores on Virtex™ and Spartan™ series FPGAs, PCI Express development boards, and a Spartan-3 FPGA based PCIe Starter kit available for a low price of $349. PCI Express is used in communication, multimedia, server and mobile platforms and enables applications such as high-end medical imaging, graphics intensive video games, DVD quality streaming video on the desktop and 10 Gigabit Ethernet interface cards.

Xilinx Booth Demonstrations:

  • High Performance Programmable PCI Express Solutions: Demonstration of Xilinx high performance 8-lane PCIe Endpoint IP solution, targeted to a Virtex-4 FX device, in an add-in card form factor.
    • Compliance certified at PCI-SIG Plugfest #48
    • Full compliance with PCIe Base Spec v1.1
    • Interoperability proven x1, x4 and x8 lane PCIe Endpoint IP cores shipping now
    • Virtex-4 FX and Virtex-II Pro based hardware development boards available now
  • Lowest Cost Programmable PCI Express Solutions: Demonstration of Xilinx low cost 1-lane PCIe-PIPE Endpoint IP solution, targeted to a Spartan-3 FPGA with an external NXP PHY (formerly Philips Semiconductors) device, in an add-in card form factor. 
    • Compliance certified at PCI-SIG Plugfest #45
    • Full compliance with PCIe base spec v1.1.
    • Interoperability proven x1 PCIe-PIPE Endpoint IP cores shipping now
    • Spartan-3 and Spartan-3E based hardware development boards available now
    • Spartan-3 based PCIe Starter kit available for a low price of $349

About Xilinx
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Editorial Contact:  
Mark Alden  
Xilinx, Inc  
408-879-7727  
mark.alden@xilinx.com  
 
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