Xilinx Press Release #02164

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

EMBEDDED DEVELOPMENT KIT ENABLES LOW COST PROCESSOR SOLUTION
New kit supports MicroBlaze in Spartan Series of FPGAs - an ideal solution for cost-sensitive applications

SAN JOSE, Calif., October 31, 2002 - Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) announced its new Embedded Development Kit (EDK) as the vehicle for low cost solutions supporting the MicroBlaze™ 32-bit soft processor core in Spartan™ Series devices. The combination of a high performance soft processor and low cost silicon enables customers to rapidly develop flexible programmable systems that are ideal for market segments that Spartan FPGAs have widely penetrated, including plasma displays, set-top boxes, and broadband access. A typical MicroBlaze system, which includes a soft processor core, bus structure, UART, timer, SPI, GPIO, and UART peripherals connected to the IBM CoreConnect™ bus, consumes less than 25% of the total available logic resources in the 2S300E Spartan-IIE FPGA, while delivering 49 Dhrystone MIPS at 75 MHz. For complete information about the EDK and MicroBlaze, visit www.xilinx.com/ipcenter.

"Low cost processor systems now have a viable alternative using both the MicroBlaze core and Spartan-IIE FPGAs. Customers have access to a highly integrated solution made up of easy-to-use tools, low cost FPGAs, and customizable soft IP that will get them ahead of existing solutions," said Per Holmberg, director of Programmable Systems Marketing at Xilinx.

Pricing and Availability
The Embedded Development Kit is available immediately for use with Xilinx® Spartan and Virtex™ Series FPGAs at a promotional price of $495 until the end of 2002. The MicroBlaze soft processor core is included in the EDK. For more information about the EDK and MicroBlaze, visit http://www.xilinx.com/processor. For more information about Spartan Series of FPGAs, visit http://www.xilinx.com/spartan. Xilinx will also be updating "In-Warranty" MicroBlaze Development Kit (MDK) users with the EDK.

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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