Xilinx Press Release #02160

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date: October 18, 2002

MEDIA ALERT FOR CONVERGENCE 2002

What: Convergence 2002

When: October 21-24, 2002

Where: Cobo Conference Center, Detroit, Mich., Booth #1337

COME SEE:

• Acunia CarCube Demo featuring Xilinx® Spartan-II™ FPGAs and CoolRunner® CPLDs: Total telematics demo board including Xingu™ motherboard plus daughter board with GSMGPRS, GPS, voice recognition, and audio/video player.
• Marconi MMT IRL Demo featuring Xilinx Virtex FPGAs: IP Phone, MP3 player, game console and video demo module. Can be reconfigured over the Internet from a laptop PC.
• Analog Devices GPS Demo featuring Xilinx CPLDs: A low cost GPS PCMCIA receiver reference design targeted specifically for the automotive telematics market.
• Board and Applications Gallery: Gallery consisting of automotive telematics application boards from Microsoft, BMW, Divio, Marconi, and more.

Partner Activities
Xilinx is participating in joint marketing efforts with several partners throughout the show including Analog Devices (booth #121), Cadence (booth 1248), The MathWorks (booth #906), Mentor Graphics (booth #100), National Instruments (booth #853), Synopsys (booth #1147), and Wind River (booth #1139).

Press Presentation: Wednesday, October 23, 2002, News Conference Room #W153
Mr. Rick Padovani, director of the High Reliability division at Xilinx will provide an overview of the Xilinx IQ solutions line for the telematics market.

Xilinx University Program
The Xilinx University Program was established in 1985 to promote and facilitate the education and research of programmable logic technology. Xilinx has since worked closely with over 1,700 universities worldwide to bring state-of-the-art programmable logic devices to classrooms, laboratories, and students. To learn more, visit the Xilinx booth at Convergence 2002 or visit university.xilinx.com.

Editorial Contacts:
Tamara Snowden, Xilinx Public Relations, (408) 879-6146, tamara.snowden@xilinx.com
Rick Padovani, Director, High Reliability Division, (408) 879-4426, rick.padovani@xilinx.com

About Xilinx
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) is the worldwide leader of programmable logic and programmable system solutions. Additional information about Xilinx is available at www.xilinx.com.

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