Xilinx Press Release #0257

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PHOENIX, Ariz., and SAN JOSE, Calif. - March 26, 2002, 2002 - Avnet Design Services (ADS), the technical arm of Avnet Electronics Marketing, and Xilinx, Inc., (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in programmable logic, today announced a new evaluation kit for Xilinx Coolrunner-II RealDigital CPLDs. The CoolRunner-II evaluation kit is platform that demonstrates the high-speed and ultra-low power capabilities of this new family of devices. The kit can be used to evaluate various design approaches, measure actual CPLD operating power consumption, and investigate the new features of the family, including various I/O standards, design security, and clocking schemes.

CoolRunner-II Devices Target New Applications
This new combination of ultra-low power and high-performance in a programmable logic device will address a variety of new communications and consumer applications. Designers will no longer need to make trade-offs that sacrifice features for battery lifetime or speed for low-power. "The Xilinx CoolRunner-II CPLD is the first no-compromise solution," said Warren Miller, vice president of marketing for Avnet Design Services. 
"Evaluation kits are the quickest and easiest way for designers to learn about new products and technologies," said Miller. "The Xilinx CoolRunner-II CPLD kit from Avnet provides new users with everything they need to evaluate the high speed and low power of this new family -- software, hardware, documentation and demonstration examples."

"Seeing is believing for designers looking to hit new combinations of low-power and high-performance in a CPLD architecture," said Evert Wolsheimer, general manager and vice president of the Xilinx CPLD division.. "This new kit is optimized to show the power consumption and speed of our new CoolRunner-II devices in a variety of applications. By using dedicated hardware to measure power consumption of the CoolRunner-II device and by providing enough supporting circuitry to allow designers to implement meaningful applications, designers will see for themselves the benefits of our new CPLD family."

Kit Description
The CoolRunner-II evaluation kit contains a printed circuit board containing the CoolRunner-II XC2C64-VQ100, complete design documentation, demonstration programs, and a board support package to simplify application development. The CoolRunner-II evaluation kit, priced at $149, can be ordered from Avnet Design Services as part number ADS-XLX-CR2-EVL. Delivery time is two weeks. For more information on this or other development kits from ADS visit www.ads.avnet.com or call (800)
585-1602

About Xilinx CoolRunner-II CPLDs
Xilinx CoolRunner-II RealDigital CPLDs feature the Fast Zero Power (FZP) design technology that provides both high performance and ultra low-power consumption and no cost penalty. Using the FZP all-digital core, CoolRunner-II devices offer a new alternative to traditional CPLDs that use analog sense amplifiers and consume much more power.

About Xilinx
Xilinx is the leading supplier of complete programmable logic solutions, including advanced integrated circuits, software design tools, predefined system functions delivered as intellectual property cores, and unparalleled field engineering support. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Xilinx invented the field programmable gate array (FPGA) and fulfills more than half of the world demand for these devices today. Xilinx solutions enable customers to significantly reduce the time required to develop products for the computer, peripheral, telecommunications, networking, industrial control, instrumentation, aerospace, defense, low power portable and consumer markets. For more information, visit the Xilinx web site at www.xilinx.com. 

About Avnet Design Services
Avnet Design Services is the technical arm of Avnet Electronics Marketing, providing a variety of technical resources and capabilities to speed customers' design cycles and to get their products to market quicker. Field applications engineers (FAEs) are knowledgeable about a variety of potential applications solutions for customers' design problems and can guide engineers to the solution that is right for their particular applications. Fee-for-service engineering services, in FPGA, ASIC and System Design are offered to Avnet customers. For more information, visit the Avnet Design Services Web site at http://www.ads.avnet.com.

About Avnet Electronics Marketing
Avnet Electronics Marketing (EM) is the largest operating group of Phoenix, Ariz.-based Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT) a Fortune 500 company with fiscal 2001 sales of $12.8 billion (year ended June 30, 2001). One of the world's largest distributor of semiconductors, interconnect, passive and electromechanical components from leading manufacturers, Avnet EM markets, inventories and adds value to these products and provides world-class supply-chain management and engineering design services. Avnet EM serves customers in 63 countries. The company's Web site is located at http://www.avnet.com. 

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