MEDIA ALERT FOR PROGRAMMABLE WORLD 2002 SIMULCAST

Over 6,000 registered participants to date

Date: April 11, 2002
What: Programmable World 2002
When: April 17, 2002
Where: San Jose, Boston and Paris with 20+ additional locations in North America and Europe

Major Electronics Industry Event
Members of the press are invited to attend Programmable World 2002, a groundbreaking industry event presented by IBM, Wind River Systems, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) and a dozen other leading electronics companies. The event will cover breakthrough technologies for programmable systems design. Scheduled for April 17, the event includes major venues in San Jose, Boston and Paris and will be simulcast to more than twenty locations in North America and Europe. Over 6,000 executives, system architects, engineers, and project managers are registered for the event to date. For complete program and registration information, visit www.xilinx.com.

Ideal News Opportunity for Members of the Press
Programmable World 2002 is an ideal opportunity for the press to meet representatives from key technology companies and learn more about the revolutionary changes taking place in the field of programmable system design. Members of the press may also attend technical and general sessions that will provide detailed information about trends in high-speed system connectivity, digital signal processing, embedded processing and programmable system design. Additionally, members of the press are invited to attend a Press and Analysts Luncheon with key company executives and customers in the San Jose, Boston and Paris locations.

Keynote Speakers
· Howard Charney, Sr. Vice President at Cisco, will discuss How the Internet Drives Productivity and Growth in the Semiconductor Industry

· Dr. Nick Tredennick, Editor of Dynamic Silicon and architect of the original Motorola 68000 microprocessor, will discus The Evolution of Digital Design

· Wim Roelandts, president and CEO at Xilinx, will introduce the keynote speakers
General and Technical Sessions
· Xilinx will introduce next-generation Programmable Systems technology with embedded processors designed to take performance, integration, bandwidth, and cost-effectiveness to the next level

· IBM will present a roadmap of the embedded applications market for the Power PC and will discuss challenges, trends and possible developments relating to the new technologies that can help mold that domain

· Wind River Systems will provide a forward looking interpretation of industry challenges, trends and possible developments relating to re-configurable computing using FPGAs with embedded Power PC processors

· Detailed technical tracks will be delivered by industry leaders and experts from: Xilinx, IBM, Wind River Systems, Cadence, Flextronics, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, Synplicity, The MathWorks, and others

Press Registration Information
To attend the free event, editors should register in advance by visiting www.xilinx.com. The main venues for the April 17 simulcast are San Jose (San Jose Convention Center), Boston (Westford Regency Inn & Conference Center in Westford, Mass.), and Paris (CNIT Paris La Defense Conference & Exhibition Centre). Editors in other locations may view the event as it is simulcast in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Farmingdale, New York, Longmont, Colorado, Phoenix, Portland, Oregon Montreal, Ottawa, Raleigh, North Carolina, San Diego, Seattle, Thousand Oaks, California, and Toronto.

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