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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
XILINX LAUNCHES ROADMAP FOR UP TO TWO-THIRDS
POWER REDUCTION
IN SPARTAN-3 FPGAS
FPGA leader targets applications that demand
low power and reduced heat dissipation
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 1, 2004 - Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today
announced availability of reduced power Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGAs in
the fourth quarter of calendar 2004. This development is part of
the FPGA leader's continuing commitment to serve customers who are
designing systems with constraints of reduced current and heat dissipation
requirements.
"The debut of Spartan-3 FPGAs with up to 66% reduction in quiescent
power consumption is another example of market-driven innovation
from Xilinx," said Clay Johnson, vice president and general
manager of the General Products Division at Xilinx, "We work
closely with our customers to understand their low power requirements.
With their guidance and our leadership in low power IC design and
manufacturing, Xilinx is producing programmable logic devices optimized
for new, larger markets."
New Applications for Reduced Power FPGAs
Xilinx IC design and manufacturing has been at the leading edge
of power management and reduction throughout its history. Its FPGA
densities and performance have improved significantly with each
product generation while power consumption has remained relatively
constant, thus exponentially decreasing the "power-per-gate-per
MHz" measurement. Xilinx is extending its state-of-the-art
power management techniques and developing new power-related innovations
to address requirements at the boundaries of low-power applications.
"Power consumption has been a barrier keeping FPGAs out of
a number of ASIC sockets. As newer generations of FPGAs continue
to reduce their power drain, more and more applications can use
a programmable architecture for the silicon residing at the heart
of their system," reports Jordan Selburn, analyst at iSuppli
Corporation. "While defining 'low power' is challenging, preliminary
iSuppli estimates indicate that as much as $3 billion of the approximately
$20 billion ASIC market could potentially shift to FPGAs if power
consumption was reduced sufficiently."
Providing Platform FPGA Features with Reduced Power
Since it introduced the first FPGA twenty years ago, Xilinx has
improved the density, performance and cost of programmable devices
by several orders of magnitude. This led to the rapid evolution
of FPGAs from low volume prototyping devices to multi-million gate,
high performance platforms. Xilinx subsequently pioneered the low-cost
FPGA segment enabling new innovation and differentiation for a variety
of high-volume, cost-sensitive consumer products. The advent of
low power Spartan-3 FPGAs will significantly expand the FPGA market
to power and heat sensitive products such as consumer appliances
and rack-mounted equipment - applications previously served primarily
by application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs).
Availability
Extending the scope of the low cost 90nm Spartan-3 family, samples
of reduced power Spartan-3 devices will be available by the end
of 2004. Since its introduction in 2003, the Spartan-3 family has
enjoyed unprecedented market demand for deployment in consumer-oriented,
cost-sensitive applications. Now companies will be able to employ
programmable logic in applications where both cost and power consumption
are critical factors.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic
solutions. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
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