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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
XILINX LAUNCHES WIRELESS BASE STATION INITIATIVE
WITH DELIVERY OF OBSAI-COMPLIANT REFERENCE DESIGN
First phase of multi-faceted initiative stems
from dedicated technical divisions delivering targeted solutions
to enable significant cost savings and flexibility for wireless
base station designs
SAN JOSE, Calif., November 16, 2004 - Xilinx Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX),
the world's leading programmable logic provider and inventor of
the FPGA, today announced a company-wide initiative aimed at dramatically
driving down wireless base station design costs, while increasing
flexibility and complying with emerging industry standards. Building
on a track record of success built over several years in base station
applications, Xilinx has established a cross-organizational team
focused on delivering silicon, IP, boards and software specifically
tuned to wireless system requirements.
To kick off the initiative, Xilinx announced immediate availability
of an OBSAI (Open Base Station Architecture Initiative) Reference
Design, which is fully compliant with OBSAI RP3 (Reference Point
3) electrical and protocol specifications. This new baseband processing-to-radio
module interconnect design is supported by the company's flagship
Virtex-II Pro™ and Virtex-4™ FX platform FPGAs and represents
the first of many easily customizable solutions Xilinx will deliver
in the coming months as a result of its wireless base station initiative.
"OBSAI welcomes Xilinx support of the OBSAI RP3 interface specification,
supporting the significant industry-wide design shift towards the
adoption of a standardized solution for base station interconnect
needs", said Jukka Klemettila, chairperson of OBSAI, "Standardized
solutions will allow for much shorter product development time,
helping to streamline product development costs and accelerate the
delivery of next generation base station designs."
Market analysts indicate that the worldwide semiconductor market
for wireless base stations is expected to grow from $2.7 billion
in 2003 to $5.6 billion in 2008. According to Jordan Selburn, Principal
Analyst at iSuppli, the FPGA/CPLD revenue portion of this segment
is forecasted to increase from $222 million to $382 million. In
2003, the $27B total wireless base station market was dominated
by Alcatel, Ericsson, Lucent, Motorola, Nokia, Nortel and Siemens,
which represented nearly 80 percent of the revenues (Source: ABI
Research).
More than 100 employees across Xilinx are engaged in the wireless
base station initiative, with three independent business units -
the Communications Technology, Digital Signal Processing and Embedded
Processing Divisions - chartered with delivering platform solutions
for multi-generational wireless applications.
"Xilinx is committed to enabling wireless base station designers
to drive down costs while delivering the ultimate in flexibility
by fully supporting the industry's migration to standards-based
serial connectivity solutions, such as OBSAI," added Ray Johnson,
general manager of the Xilinx Communications Technology Division.
"Our strategy of creating customizable building blocks that
can be integrated with high-speed serial interconnects will allow
our customers to future-proof their designs by enabling field upgrades
to support additional channels and services as needed, further enhancing
cost savings."
About Xilinx Virtex Platform FPGAs
Xilinx Virtex™ FPGAs are the number one choice of designers
worldwide, based upon their industry-leading capacity, performance,
and cost-effectiveness. Virtex-II Pro was the world's first platform
FPGA and only FPGA to offer integrated PowerPC™ embedded technology.
Xilinx has shipped over 100,000 PowerPC cores to its customer base
and enabled over 1,400 CoreConnect licenses.
Enabled by the revolutionary ASMBL (Advanced Silicon Modular Block)
architecture, the company's new flagship Virtex-4 FPGAs deliver
more options than any other FPGA family available today. With more
than 100 technical innovations, the Virtex-4 family consists of
17 devices and three domain-optimized platforms: Virtex-4 LX FPGAs
for logic-intensive designs, Virtex-4 SX FPGAs for high-performance
signal processing, and Virtex-4 FX FPGAs for high-speed serial connectivity
and embedded processing. A multi-platform approach makes it possible
for customers to select the optimal mix of resources for their application
to achieve the highest functionality and performance at the lowest
cost.
Pricing and Availability
The OBSAI Reference Design is immediately available free of charge
to qualified customers. Visit www.xilinx.com/OBSAI_Reference
Design for more information.
About OBSAI
OBSAI comprises 110 industry leading telecommunications companies.
OBSAI has created a set of open specifications to define a modular
wireless base station architecture and detailed specifications for
the three main internal interfaces. The aim of this initiative is
to create an open market for base station modules and components
to reduce development effort and cost, improve time to market, and
accelerate the implementation of new and advanced services. For
more information, visit www.obsai.org.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic
solutions. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
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