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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
XILINX DELIVERS WORLD'S LOWEST COST FPGA-BASED
EMBEDDED PROCESSOR FOR LESS THAN 75 CENTS
Industry's only low-cost FPGA with dedicated Multipliers &
Block RAM for
embedded system solutions
SAN JOSE, Calif., October 29, 2003 - Representing a major milestone
in the embedded processing space, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today
announced new price points for its 32-bit and 8-bit embedded soft
processing solutions. Designers can now implement Xilinx's 32-bit
MicroBlaze soft processor in a Spartan-3 XC3S1000 device for an
effective price of $0.73*. Additionally, designers can implement
Xilinx's 8-bit PicoBlaze soft processor in the same device for an
effective price of $0.13*. With these new price points, Xilinx soft
processor solutions provide customers with significant cost savings
compared to most discrete 32-bit/8-bit processors available today.
Xilinx attributes today's news to its successful implementation
of 90nm technology, resulting in new breakthrough price points for
its Spartan-3 family. Xilinx first shipped the Spartan-3 family
in March 2003, enabling the company to quickly pass on the cost-density
benefits of the 90nm node to customers. Xilinx now offers Spartan-3
FPGAs with 1 million system gates for under $12.00*, 50 thousand
system gates for $2.95*, and ten different device-package combinations
for under $10.00*.
The Spartan-3 family is the only low-cost FPGA with built-in Multipliers
and Block RAM for embedded system solutions. With three times the
Block RAM than any FPGA in its class and integrated hardware multipliers
to enhance multiplication performance of the soft processor, Xilinx
is further reducing the effective cost of designing embedded solutions.
Additionally, with an architecture optimized for 90nm technology,
Xilinx has packed more logic cells onto a smaller die resulting
in up to 36% cost per logic cells advantage over competing solutions.
"Through the combination of low prices and a full feature-set,
Xilinx is providing designers with FPGA-based embedded processing
solutions at never before seen pricing," said Kapil Shankar,
senior director of marketing & applications for the General
Products Division at Xilinx. "No other low-cost FPGA offers
Multipliers and as much Block RAM as the Spartan-3 family. Embedding
a high-speed processor into an FPGA requires sufficient and dedicated
functionality to effectively meet system requirements while reducing
overall costs."
The MicroBlaze soft processor combined with soft peripherals and
logic, can address many traditional 16 and 32-bit microprocessor
and microcontroller applications including control instrumentation,
test and measurement, automotive and high-end consumer. The free
PicoBlaze soft processor can be used as a simple microcontroller
in various applications. To date, over 32,000 registered users are
using Xilinx embedded processing solutions.
Providing Customers with More Features for Less Cost
Spartan-3 FPGAs offer more density and features in its class to
allow customers to reduce overall system costs through integration.
Spartan-3 FPGAs offer a combination of highest embedded block and
distributed RAM and up to 784 I/Os. Spartan-3 devices offer embedded
XtremeDSP functionality with dedicated 18x18 multipliers and up
to 330 billion multiply and accumulates (MACs) per second. Additionally,
Spartan-3 devices support 23 leading parallel I/O, including PCI
32/33 and PCI 64/33, as well as other popular parallel connectivity
cores for telecommunications and networking.
Pricing
The 3S50, 3S200, and 3S400 Spartan-3 devices with 50,000, 200,000,
and 400,000 system gates respectively, sells for less than $6.50*.
The 3S1000 Spartan-3 device with 1 million system gates also sells
for under $12.00*. The entire Spartan-3 family will be available
in volume production in early 2004 from distributors worldwide,
or direct from Xilinx at www.xilinx.com/spartan.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic
solutions. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
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* based on volume pricing for 250K units, 2004
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