SAN JOSE, Calif., February 05, 2002 - Xilinx, Inc., (NASDAQ:XLNX), today announced that Point Grey Research, a leading designer and manufacturer of advanced vision technologies, has begun production of the world’s smallest IEEE-1394 board level CCD camera. An OEM version of the Point Grey Dragonfly, the camera achieves it’s ultra-small package by utilizing Xilinx Spartan FPGAs to implement CCD timing, data buffering, external lighting, advanced asynchronous trigger and IEEE-1394 link layer functions.  Because it is based on FPGA technology, the camera is completely reprogrammable via the 1394 interface allowing simple field upgradeability. Point Grey is one of the many companies utilizing Xilinx low-cost FPGAs to gain a competitive advantage in digital video applications using the IEEE-1394 link layer functionality. 

“We’ve been using Xilinx FPGAs for four years and the features and benefits of their products (hardware, development software, intellectual property and support) are unparalleled,” said Rod Barman, president of Point Grey Research.

“Increasingly, Xilinx low-cost Spartan family of FPGAs are being used in a wide range of digital video applications,” said Robert Bielby, senior director of strategic solutions marketing at Xilinx. “Point Grey’s latest IEEE-1394 board level camera is a great illustration of the level of integration and capabilities the Spartan FPGA family delivers to a very unique digital video application.”

About Xilinx Spartan FPGAs
The Xilinx Spartan-II FPGA series was created to offer a cost-optimized system logic solution by providing the advantages of fast development-to-production time, advanced system features, and in-system reprogrammability at competitive prices.  Spartan-II FPGAs provide total cost management through the design, production, and life cycle phases, allowing manufacturers to address all aspects of a product’s cost.

About 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 Point Grey Research
Point Grey Research is a product engineering and technology company founded in 1997. The company’s primary focus is three-dimensional stereoscopic computer vision technologies.  Applications include people and object tracking, virtual reality modeling and dimensioning, human-machine interfacing, and mobile robotics, used in the medical, aerospace, military, security, mining, automotive, retail and interactive entertainment industries.  For more information, please visit the company’s Web site at http://www.ptgrey.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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