SAN JOSE AND SANTA CLARA, Calif., February 14, 2002-ADI Engineering, Inc. and Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced the availability of the BRH reference design and evaluation platform for the Intel® XScale™ microarchitecture. The BRH reference design helps accelerate development of data communications, networking, and high-performance embedded applications of the Intel® XScale™ microarchitecture, aiding early development and reducing time-to-market of OEM designs. Developed by ADI Engineering, the reference design features a Xilinx® Virtex-E® FPGA implemented in a high performance customizable companion chip for the i80200 processor.  ADI Engineering will distribute the reference design and will produce, sell, and support the BRH platform.

Configurable big-endian and little-endian mode support, high sustained SDRAM bandwidth, dual on-board Ethernet ports, and PCI make the BRH useful for a wide range of performance-intensive data communications, networking, and media processing applications.  The Virtex-E® FPGA companion chip features an SDRAM controller optimized for the deeply pipelined Intel® XScale™ microarchitecture external to sustain the full 800 MB/s bandwidth potential of the i80200 external bus to SDRAM.  Also included in the FPGA companion chip, are a PCI 2.2 host bridge interface, a DMA controller, an interrupt controller, dual counter/timers, and an 8-bit peripheral bus controller. 

Software and tools support for the BRH includes big- and little-endian versions of VxWorks™, VisionICE and VisionProbe from WindRiver Systems, HardHat™ Linux from MontaVista Software, BlueCat™ and LynxOS™ from LynuxWorks, the Arriba! IDE from Viosoft, and the MAJIC-MX JTAG emulator from Embedded Performance, Inc.  This comprehensive software and tools support package makes the BRH a highly effective development platform for big-endian applications of the Intel® XScale™ microarchitecture..

“The Intel® XScale™ microarchitecture is designed to meet the low-power, high-performance demands that extend beyond other processor alternatives.  The availability of the BRH allows OEM designers to meet critical performance and feature requirements without sacrificing cost or schedule targets,” said Stephen Price, general manager of the Intel Integrated Access Business Unit.  “The BRH, the first widely available reference design for the Intel® XScale™ microarchitecture to support big and little endian standards, provides the performance and design flexibility for today’s data communications and networking applications.”

“The BRH provides an ultra-high performance hardware reference design and evaluation platform that enables development of demanding communications and networking applications using the Intel® XScale™ microarchitecture,” said Steve Yates, President of ADI Engineering. “By leveraging the advanced capabilities of the Xilinx Virtex-E® FPGA, ADI has been able to create a highly flexible reference design to accelerate time to market for OEMs interested in applying the high performance and low power of the Intel® XScale™ microarchitecture.”

“The BRH is a typical example of how the advanced features of the Virtex-E FPGA can be used to offload functions from the main CPU such as the Intel XScale,” said Sandeep Vij, vice president of worldwide marketing at Xilinx. “The i80200 processor and the Virtex-E work together to provide an advanced solution for the high-end communications, networking, and wireless infrastructure market with leading edge performance and functionality.”

 ADI Engineering will demonstrate the BRH at its booth at the Intel Developer’s Forum, February 25-28 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, CA. The BRH reference design is available at website: www.xilinx.com/company/reference_design/adi_engineering.htm

About ADI Engineering Inc.
ADI Engineering Inc. is a supplier of high bandwidth hardware reference designs, evaluation platforms, and custom design services supporting the Intel® XScale™ microarchitecture.  Founded in 1991, ADI also offers rapid-deployment custom development of advanced data communications, embedded computing, broadband wireless, digital video, and network security products.  ADI Engineering is an authorized third-party design partner for a number of semiconductor OEMs including Intel and Xilinx. ADI Engineering’s headquarters are located in Charlottesville, VA.  For more information, please visit http://www.adiengineering.com, contact Sales at +1-434-978-2888, Email: info@adiengineering.com, or Fax +1-434-978-1803.

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 consumer markets. For more information, visit the Xilinx web site at www.xilinx.com.

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