FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

XILINX FPGA EMBEDDED PROCESSING PLATFORM STUDIO
WINS PRESTIGIOUS DESIGNVISION AWARD FROM IEC

Industry-Leading Embedded Development Suite Recognized for
Outstanding Innovation and Market Impact

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 7, 2005 - Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that its pioneering Xilinx Platform Studio (XPS) embedded tool suite received top honors at the inaugural International Engineering Consortium (IEC) DesignVision Award reception held last week at the DesignCon Conference in Santa Clara, Calif. Judged by independent industry experts, XPS was selected in the FPGA/PLD Design Tools category for its innovation, uniqueness, market impact, customer benefits and value to society.

"It is inspiring to see that Platform Studio is being recognized in this way. The platform approach to next-generation embedded systems will become the only viable solution to meet the economic and technological challenges of the future," said Jerry Worchel, principal analyst at In-Stat/MDR. "Xilinx continues to prove its undeniable leadership in developing world-class technologies that make FPGAs a compelling system platform for an expanding range of embedded processing applications."

Platform Studio 6.3i automates a host of architecture-level design steps to accelerate embedded hardware/software platform development, including automatic generation of device drivers and board support packages customized to the user-defined hardware. A key breakthrough of the XPS environment is its ability to abstract or hide excessive system details. Setting the pace for embedded platform design flexibility and control, the XPS approach simplifies the development process without restricting designer innovation. This intelligent, robust tool suite empowers users to quickly configure and debug custom embedded processing platforms with associated software on time and under budget.

"Receiving this award is truly an honor, and further validates our vision for establishing programmable technology as the key enabler for embedded platform development," commented Wim Roelandts, president and CEO of Xilinx. "Our Platform Studio approach offers customers the right mix of performance, automation and flexibility so they can build and simulate complex embedded systems more easily and faster than ever before possible. This relentless commitment to saving customers time and engineering resources is without question a pivotal factor for their success in the competitive global marketplace today and into the future."

IEC DesignVision Award Program
In keeping with its 60-year mission of bringing the highest quality and most innovative forms of education to the industry, the IEC DesignVision Awards recognize leading-edge products and services in the electronic design and semiconductor industries. The awards mirror a rich IEC tradition of recognizing innovative technology in the telecommunications field, another industry in which the IEC actively provides educational opportunities. DesignVision 2005 Awards were presented to 19 recipients for 10 different categories.

"As the leader in providing educational opportunities to the electronic design industry, the IEC is proud to recognize companies like Xilinx for their ingenuity and service," IEC senior director John Janowiak said. "Based on these honorees, you can tell the spirit of innovation that has always fueled the electronic design and semiconductor industry is still going strong."

The presenter of DesignCon and the DesignVision Awards, the International Engineering Consortium (www.iec.org), is a non-profit organization dedicated to catalyzing positive growth in several industries and their university communities. Since 1944, the IEC, which is headquartered in Chicago, Ill., has provided high-quality educational opportunities for industry professionals, academics, and students. The IEC also produces publications and handles the affairs of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Associations and Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society for electrical and computer engineers.

Platform Studio Platform, Pricing & Availability
The Platform Studio 6.3i tool suite is delivered as part of the popular Xilinx Embedded Development Kit (EDK). The tool suite supports the industry-leading PowerPC hard processor and MicroBlaze soft processor designs for the Xilinx Virtex-4 , Virtex-II Pro™, Virtex-II Pro X and Spartan-3 Series Platform FPGAs. It is currently available for the following computing platforms: Windows® 2000 SP2, SP3, SP4 and XP SP1, Solaris® 2.8/5.8 and 2.9/5.9, as well as Linux® Red Hat® Enterprise 3.0.

The entire EDK and Platform Studio 6.3i package is $495 U.S. list and includes licensing for the MicroBlaze soft processor. A free EDK evaluation featuring the award-winning XPS 6.3i release is now available with the Spartan-3 Starter Kit. Updates for existing licensed users and new product registration can be accessed at http://www.xilinx.com/ise/embedded/edk_download.htm.

For complete information on Platform Studio and the EDK, visit www.xilinx.com/edk.

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