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Xilinx Press Release #0360

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XILINX TEAMS UP WITH NOHAU AND MICRIUM TO OFFER DESIGNERS NEW CAPABILITIES FOR MICROBLAZE BASED EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

The joint partnership between Xilinx, Nohau and Micrium provides embedded developers the necessary tools to help bring their products to market more quickly and efficiently

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 23, 2003 - Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced that Nohau Corp., a world leading supplier of in-circuit emulators, has developed a new USB to JTAG-based debugger featuring µC/OS-II support from Micrium, Inc., a leading provider of high quality embedded software solutions, for the MicroBlaze 32-bit soft processor core from Xilinx.

Nohau's powerful macro-based debugger, called Seehau, controls the EMUL-PC/USB-JTAG hardware. With Nohau's Project Manager, engineers can greatly reduce the edit-compile-debug loop time. A "soft" trace module is included in the tool greatly enhancing the search for "hard-to-find" bugs.

"I believe that soft cores in FPGAs have the potential to change the way embedded systems are designed in the future. However, without excellent development tools, the design process is too difficult," said Olle Hallengren, President of Nohau. "Nohau's and Micrium's tools are contributing to ease this process."

Micrium's µC/OS-II is a highly portable RTOS that meets the requirements of safety critical systems and has been used in avionics, medical, industrial, data communications, instrumentation and many other types of applications.

"Micrium is pleased to partner with Nohau and Xilinx to extend the availability of our very popular and robust RTOS to the embedded community," said Jean J. Labrosse, President of Micrium. "The source code for uC/OS-II is exceptionally clean and well commented which allowed it to be ported to the MicroBlaze in just a few days. Nohau's Seehau Kernel Awareness provides visibility into µC/OS-II which greatly helps embedded developers isolate complex problems."

"We are pleased to collaborate with Nohau and Micrium to offer familiar and best-in-class debug tools and µC/OS support, respectively for our MicroBlaze users," said Mark Aaldering, Senior Director of IP Solution Division at Xilinx. "These tools will help accelerate development time."

Pricing and Availability
The Embedded Development Kit is available immediately with promotional pricing at $495 until the end of 2003. The MicroBlaze soft processor core is included in the EDK. For more information about the EDK and MicroBlaze, visit http://www.xilinx.com/processor.

About Nohau Corporation
Nohau provides the tools for engineers of embedded systems to complete their development projects in an efficient and economical way. Nohau Corporation, headquartered in Campbell, California, is the market leader for 8-, 16-, and 32-bit in-circuit emulators, with representatives worldwide.

About Micrium
Micrium, Inc. is based in South Florida and is a provider of high quality embedded software solutions and is headed by world renowned author and embedded systems developer Jean J. Labrosse. Micrium is a privately held corporation. For additional information, please visit http://www.micrium.com.

About Xilinx
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) is the worldwide leader of programmable logic solutions. Additional information about Xilinx is available at http://www.xilinx.com.

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