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XILINX REDUCES DEVELOPMENT
COST WHILE ACCELERATING PROGRAMMABLE SYSTEMS DESIGN WITH NEW
EVALUATION PLATFORM
Company delivers ML300 evaluation platform
products for the industry's only FPGA with PowerPC™ processors
and 3.125 Gigabit per second serial transceivers
SAN JOSE, Calif., November 25, 2002 - Xilinx, Inc., (NASDAQ:XLNX)
today announced the availability of its new ML300 evaluation
platform to enable designers to accelerate the development
of systems using the company's Virtex-II Pro™ FPGAs with immersed
IBM® PowerPC processors and RocketIO™ 3.125 Gb/s serial transceivers.
System, hardware, software and IP core designers now have
access to a platform that can be used to design, develop,
and debug complex systems. The ML300 evaluation platform provides
hardware, software, debug and design tools, IP cores and an
extensive set of reference designs. The evaluation platform
allows designers to explore and implement new architectural
ideas using the RocketIO serial transceivers and PowerPC processors
in the Virtex-II Pro FPGA. For complete information about
the Virtex-II Pro ML300 evaluation platform, visit www.xilinx.com/ml300
The Virtex-II Pro ML300 evaluation platform is a complete
hardware and software development system that enables designers
to create highly optimized and flexible programmable systems
while reducing overall development costs. Designers can use
the evaluation platform in many ways. Software engineers can
develop software and device drivers using a complete "known-good"
system, saving weeks of development time and avoiding costly
and time-consuming re-spins. System architects can explore
the tradeoffs of implementing various system level functions
in hardware or software. Hardware engineers can work with
software engineers to build custom IP cores using the infrastructure
that the platform provides, greatly accelerating the design
time for new functionality.
The evaluation platform includes the ML300 hardware platform,
Virtex-II Pro FPGA, power supply, cables, hardware development
tools, debugging tools, intellectual property cores and device
drivers, embedded software development tools, example operating
systems, tutorials, documentation and several reference designs
that can be implemented immediately. The bundle also ships
with an 1 GB IBM MicroDrive with eight different configurations
of hardware and software systems ranging from simple stand
alone applications to real time operating systems that can
be directly demonstrated on the ML300 evaluation platform.
In addition, board support packages (BSPs) are available for
both the Wind River Systems® VxWorks® real time operating
system (RTOS) and the Linux® embedded operating system from
MontaVista™ Software.
"We are extremely pleased with the enthusiastic reception
the Virtex-II Pro ML300 evaluation platform received at its
first public demonstration at the Embedded Systems Conference
last week in Boston," said Edward McGettigan, Director of
Systems Engineering in the Advanced Products Development at
Xilinx. "The evaluation platform demonstrates that Xilinx
has working solutions today for designers who want to build
next generation embedded systems that take advantage of the
processing power and flexibility of our Virtex-II Pro FPGAs.
There is no other complete reprogrammable platform on the
market today that allows designers to build, debug and verify
complex embedded processing systems."
Price and Availability
he Virtex-II Pro ML300 evaluation platform is available in
two product versions. The DO-V2P- ML300 version, priced at
$4,695, which consists of the ML300 hardware platform, developer's
kit, GNU software development tools, ChipScope Pro™, Parallel
Cable IV, reference platforms, hardware and software IP, tutorials,
documentation, power supply, complete set of cables, and an
evaluation copy of the Xilinx Integrated Software Environment
(ISE 5.1i) FPGA design and implementation tools. The DO-V2P-ML300-WRS
version, priced at $6,990, includes all of the above plus
the Xilinx Edition of the Wind River Systems software development
tools that includes a compiler, hardware and software debug
tools and the Wind River Systems Vision Probe II Cable.
About Xilinx
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) is the worldwide leader of programmable
logic solutions. Additional information about Xilinx is available
at www.xilinx.com
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