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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
XILINX EMBEDDED POWERPC SOLUTION GAINS SIGNIFICANT
INDUSTRY ADOPTION
Company reports record-setting shipments and
rapid adoption
of Embedded PowerPC cores with Virtex-II Pro and Virtex-4 FX Platform
FPGAs
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 8, 2005 - Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today
announced shipment of over two million integrated PowerPC™
cores in Xilinx Virtex™-II Pro Platform FPGAs, surpassing a
remarkable twenty-fold increase since first quarter 2004. This milestone
underscores the rapid industry traction and continued success achieved
with the Virtex-II Pro PowerPC solution across thousands of customers
worldwide. Deployment of the next-generation Virtex-4 FX Platform
optimized for high performance processing applications is accelerating
industry-wide adoption of embedded PowerPC technology over a wide
range of end markets.
"The success and widespread acceptance of the PowerPC-embedded
Xilinx platform is a testament to the versatility and performance
of the Power Architecture," stated Nigel Beck, vice president,
Technology Marketing, IBM. "The adaptability of the Power Architecture,
through technologies like FPGA and organizations like power.org,
is benefiting new customers across a broad array of industries,
in some of the world's most innovative and sophisticated systems."
Manufactured on proven 90-nanometer semiconductor technology, the
Virtex-4 FX Platform features the industry's only dual 32-bit embedded
PowerPC 405 processors running at up to 450 MHz and delivering over
700 Dhrystone MIPS each, while providing over three-fold performance
advantage and one-eighth the power consumption compared to processors
in competing FPGAs. In addition, embedded systems designers can
achieve up to 20X increase in overall application-specific system
performance relative to software only implementations by leveraging
the innovative hardware acceleration capabilities of the Auxiliary
Processor Unit (APU) controller in the Virtex-4 FX platform.
Industry Adoption
The immersed PowerPC processor solution from Xilinx is implemented
in many different forms ranging from system management and control
to sophisticated distributed multi-processing systems. Supported
by a variety of industry standard operating systems, the Xilinx
PowerPC solution enables embedded systems across a broad range of
applications, including wired and wireless communications, homeland
security, automotive, defense, scientific and medical imaging, as
well as industrial test and measurement.
"The fact that the PowerPC 405 processor is closely coupled
into the FPGA provides us the ability to quickly modify our design
and more efficiently partition our system in terms of hardware and
software functionality," said Darin Mishima, senior hardware
design engineer at Spirent Communications. "Since we can easily
migrate our existing Virtex-II Pro design forward to the Virtex-4
FX device family, we are able to increase both functionality and
performance of our next generation network test equipment while
reducing overall system cost."
"We use the processor in the Xilinx Virtex-4 FX60 device in
our Ethernet interface module to perform ARP cache ageing and other
system management functions, resulting in a 30 percent reduction
in the amount of logic cells required which substantially reduces
the amount of Verilog required to implement our design. We also
use the PowerPC cores to configure and update registers and RAM
tables used in our high speed data path," stated Alex Henderson,
chief technology officer of Anagran, manufacturer of IP Flow State
Aware (FSA) routers.
About Xilinx Virtex Platform FPGAs and Embedded Solutions
The Xilinx Virtex family is the world's first and only FPGA product
line to integrate PowerPC embedded technology. Providing designers
the ability to easily develop, integrate and debug their entire
embedded system, the award-winning
Xilinx Platform Studio tool suite offers a fully integrated
hardware/software development environment included in the Xilinx
Embedded Development Kit.
The Xilinx embedded ecosystem also features an extensive library
of intellectual property (over two hundred cores), internal and
third party tools, and support for the most widely used operating
systems. Designers can quickly and easily build systems utilizing
a variety of cost-effective development platforms, including the
new Xilinx
ML403 board with the Virtex-4 FX12 device, and free examples
such as the popular UltraController-II
microcontroller reference design based on the PowerPC 405 core.
Additionally, Xilinx provides a variety of embedded design services,
training and support to further ensure first-time design success.
More information about Xilinx's complete spectrum of price-performance
optimized processing solutions is available online:http://www.xilinx.com/products/design_resources/proc_central/index.htm.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic
solutions. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
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