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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
XILINX SHIPS WORLD'S FIRST ADVANCED SWITCHING
SOLUTION
BASED ON PCI EXPRESS ARCHITECTURE
Company's Virtex-II Pro FPGAs enable rapid deployment
of
open standard- based switched fabric backplanes
INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., February 17, 2004
-Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced it's shipping the world's
first Advanced Switching (AS) solution based on PCI Express architecture
to enable the rapid deployment of open standards-based switched
fabric backplanes and other product solutions. The solution includes
an AS intellectual property core implemented in the RocketIO™
serial transceivers and IBM PowerPC™ 405 of the company's
flagship Virtex®-II Pro FPGAs - the industry's most popular
FPGA for serial design. Xilinx delivers its AS solution just one
month after the ASI-SIG announced the specification as final (http://www.asi-sig.org/press/releases/ASI-SIG_Spec_Announcement.pdf),
expediting the implementation of AS by twelve to eighteen months.
For complete information about the Xilinx AS solution, visit www.xilinx.com/serialsolution.
"Advanced Switching is built on top of the PCI Express technology
and brings the lower cost and performance advantages of the PCI
Express technology to the rapidly growing serial backplane market,"
said Rajeev Kumar, president of the ASI SIG and Advanced Switching
initiatives manager at Intel. "The immediate availability of the
Xilinx solution enables designers to start developing applications
in standard ATCA as well as custom backplanes for communications
equipment including access, edge and storage systems."
Xilinx is demonstrating the AS solution today for the first time
at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, California (Intel
Pavilion Booth # 42 and Intel Communications Alliance Booth #509).
The demonstration showcases the new AS IP core in a protocol bridge
developed by Xilinx Design Services, for an ATM software application
featuring Intel network processors and Virtex-II Pro FPGAs with
Xilinx's new AdvancedTCA™ development platform - also introduced
today, visit www.xilinx.com/prs_rls/ip/0428_atca_backplane.htm.
"Availability of an AS solution so early in the specification lifecycle
will allow designers to immediately start designing intelligent
communications or computing applications based on the new specification,"
said Mark Aaldering, senior director of the IP Solutions Division
at Xilinx. "Virtex-II Pro's programmable fabric, embedded PowerPC
processor and serial transceivers allowed us to develop the core
in parallel with the definition of the specification - a design
methodology that ASICs or ASSPs can not compete with."
Today's news underscores Xilinx's commitment to provide customers
with broadest portfolio of complete serial connectivity solutions
for tomorrow's computing and communication designs. Xilinx, along
with other industry leaders, is on the board of directors of the
new ASI-SIG and is actively participating in the continuing development
and enhancement of the Advanced Switching specification.
The Advanced Switching Core
The Xilinx AS IP core uses the Xilinx Smart-IP™ technology
to reach 2.5 Gbps line speed utilizing the features of the RocketIO
multi-gigabit transceivers such as clock data recovery, 8B/10B encoding,
3.125 Gbps SerDes, transmit/receive FIFOs, and CRC. The IBM PowerPC
405 processor embedded in the Virtex-II Pro FPGA fabric is used
to implement the AS configuration space, freeing up to 20% fabric
resources in the target device. Virtex-II Pro's unique HW/SW trade-off
ability allows customers to implement their designs in a smaller
part generating significant cost savings over competing devices.
Advanced Switching architecture is complementary to PCI Express
and fills the need for a multi-point, peer-to-peer switched fabric
architecture that further accelerates the transition to convergence
by meeting customer demand for a standard between Ethernet and high-end
proprietary fabrics.
About High-Speed Serial Initiative and Xilinx Solutions for High-speed
Serial Backplanes
The Xilinx High-Speed Serial Initiative was introduced to help accelerate
the industry shift from parallel to serial I/O signaling technologies
by delivering next generation connectivity solutions which support
line rates from 622 Mbps to 10 Gbps and beyond. Xilinx's high performance
Virtex-II Pro family of FPGAs deliver industry leading features,
including IBM PowerPC™ processors immersed into the industry's
leading FPGA fabric, muti-gigabit RocketIO™ serial transceivers,
and cutting-edge embedded design tools, combined with a suite of
IP cores - representing a comprehensive solution for a broad range
of connectivity requirements across the entire line to the backplane.
License price and availability
The AS core is available now as a LogiCORE product under the terms
of SignOnce IP license and is priced at $25,000. Once purchased,
it can be configured and downloaded from the Xilinx website at http://www.xilinx.com/serialsolution.
For more information and to purchase the Virtex-II Pro FPGA, visit www.xilinx.com/platform. Information about licensing and other
Xilinx LogiCORE products is available on the Xilinx IP Center at www.xilinx.com/ipcenter.
About Xilinx Design Services
Xilinx Design Services is a global organization focused on providing
customers with the optimal benefits of programmable logic. Led by
professionals with proven project management skills, the XDS team
of FPGA hardware engineers, embedded software designers, product
specialists, and system architects help customers get their products
to market faster, more cost-effectively, and with optimal performance.
For more information, visit www.xilinx.com/xds.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions.
For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
Xilinx is an Associate Member with the Intel® Communications
Alliance, a community of communications and embedded developers
and solution providers. For more information, please visit www.intel.com/go/ica.
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