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XILINX OFFERS FREE HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS
FOR AWARD-WINNING EMBEDDED PLATFORM DESIGN
AT ESC SAN FRANCISCO

Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced a series of free hands-on workshops for the powerful immersed PowerPC™ and Xilinx MicroBlaze™ processors configured with the popular Platform Studio design suite. Offered for three days at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco, Calif., these valuable workshops are free to attendees who pre-register by March 3, 2005.

The insightful, interactive workshops offer an excellent opportunity for in-depth technical training on how to design real-time systems with industry-leading Xilinx Virtex-4 , Virtex-II Pro , and Spartan-3 Platform FPGAs. During the 90-minute sessions, each attendee will have access to instructors and a programmable hardware platform to design, debug, and boot with a live embedded system.

Three Xilinx Embedded Workshops, each highlighting a different application, will be offered during ESC SF at the Moscone Center on Tuesday, March 8 through Thursday, March 10, 2005. Workshop attendees will be trained on using intelligent, platform-aware design environments, including the recent award-winning Xilinx Platform Studio embedded tool suite and/or the innovative Xilinx System Generator for DSP solution.

Implement a Virtex-4 FX PowerPC System with Floating Point Co-Processor
The new Virtex-4 FX delivers unprecedented FPGA embedded processing with new performance features that include integrated dual PowerPC cores operating at the highest operating frequencies, coupled with the revolutionary Xilinx Auxiliary Processing Unit (APU). The presentation will demonstrate application-specific hardware acceleration that enables dramatic improvements in performance while also substantially reducing cost and power. The interactive workshop will also feature a brief presentation of the Virtex-4 FX FPGA and direct hands-on experience implementing a PowerPC processor system. The design will be created and target actual hardware using the Platform Studio tool suite via the FPU with a graphical display of the output.

Accelerating IDCT Software Application using Configurable MicroBlaze 32-bit RISC Processor
Learn how to unleash the power of the Fast Simplex Link (FSL) port on the Xilinx MicroBlaze soft processor solution. The simple, yet elegant, solution enables designers to add dedicated low-latency co-processing engines tuned specifically for their application. Attendees will experience first-hand how to achieve at least a 10X performance improvement of an inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT) algorithm utilizing the popular Spartan-3 platform.

High-Performance DSP on an FPGA Made Easy
Designers will learn now to implement high-performance DSP designs using the breakthrough Virtex-4 FPGAs. By leveraging the innovative System Generator for DSP tool suite, IP cores, and hardware from Xilinx, even novice FPGA designers can quickly experience the capabilities and ease-of-use of Xilinx DSP design solutions.

Sign Up Now!
Take advantage of this FREE opportunity to get live, in-depth technical training on embedded design. Seating is limited, so register early at the URL listed below.
http://www.xilinx.com/events/tradeshows/esc_sf05/workshop.htm

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