Xilinx helps Evertz accelerate time-to-market and provide customers with field upgradability

SAN JOSE, Calif., January 29, 2002 —Xilinx Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) announced today that Evertz Microsystems, a leading provider of dynamic digital video (DV) equipment for the film and television broadcast industry, chose Xilinx Platform Virtex FPGAs to deliver its latest portable digital to analog converter for HDTV. Evertz chose the Xilinx Virtex family of FPGAs for their high-performance DSP capabilities and field upgradability. Evertz is one of many DTV manufacturers utilizing Xilinx FPGAs to gain a competitive advantage in digital video and broadcast equipment applications.

“Field upgradability is a must for professional broadcast equipment, especially when you consider how important it is to stay on top of all the evolving standards in digital video,” said Rakesh Patel, senior design engineer at Evertz Microsystems Ltd. “Xilinx Platform FPGAs offered the time-to-market benefits required to get our new products into the hands of customers in record time.” 

“Evertz unique application of Xilinx FPGAs is a prime example of our further penetration into the digital video market,” said Robert Bielby, senior director of Strategic Solutions Marketing at Xilinx. “Evertz took advantage of the reprogrammable nature of our chips and passed the benefits on to their customers.”

Xilinx eSP for Digital Video Applications
In addition to offering a wide range of solutions that accelerate time-to-market in various applications, Xilinx offers the industry’s only web portal dedicated to accelerating product development for digital convergence products. Xilinx eSP (http://www.xilinx.com/esp) now features a comprehensive resource dedicated to the development of digital video technologies. 

Solutions found on the site include reference designs, technology tutorials, system block diagrams, IP Cores and result from collaboration with a wide range of industry leaders.

About Xilinx Platform FPGAs
The Virtex-II solution is the first embodiment of the Platform FPGA, and strengthened by strategic alliances with IBM, Wind River Systems, Conexant, The MathWorks, and other technology leaders. With densities ranging from 40,000 to 10 million system gates, Virtex-II solutions are empowered by advanced design tools that drive time to market advantages through fast design, powerful synthesis, smart implementation algorithms, and efficient verification capabilities. The Virtex-II solution delivers enhanced system memory and lightning-fast DSP through the flexible Xilinx IP-Immersion fabric.

About Evertz Microsystems Ltd.
Headquartered in Ontario, Canada, Evertz Microsystems Ltd, is a globally recognized, video equipment manufacturer, offering products that span HDTV, Fiber Optics, , Production, Film Post Production, Closed Captioning, SDI/601 and Timecode spectrum. Their products are utilized in television broadcast facilities by both production and post-production studios around the world. For more information, please visit the company’s Web site at www.evertz.com.

About Xilinx 
Xilinx is the leading supplier of complete programmable logic solutions, including advanced integrated circuits, software design tools, predefined system functions delivered as cores, and unparalleled field engineering support. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Xilinx invented the field programmable gate array (FPGA) and fulfills more than half of the world demand for these devices today. Xilinx solutions enable customers to reduce significantly the time required to develop products for the computer, peripheral, telecommunications, networking, industrial control, instrumentation, aerospace, defense, and low-power portable and consumer markets. For more information, visit the Xilinx web site at http://www.xilinx.com. 

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