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Xilinx Press Release # 0523

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

XILINX SELLS LOW COST FPGAS THROUGH ONLINE STORE

Date: February 15, 2005

Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that the Xilinx Online Store (www.xilinx.com) is now selling Spartan-3 FPGAs, the world's lowest cost FPGAs. This new capability adds an additional way for designers to purchase Xilinx products & solutions. Currently three Spartan-3 devices (the 50Kgate XC3S50, the 200Kgate XC3S200 and the 400Kgate XC3S400) can be purchased through the Xilinx Online Store. More Spartan devices and package options will be added following the initial introduction.

Other products available through the Xilinx Online Store include:

Silicon Devices

  • FPGAs
    • Spartan-3 FPGAs are ideal for cost-optimized consumer applications and are targeted as replacements for gate arrays and for ASSPs.

  • CPLDs
    • CoolRunner™ CPLDs are the first to combine ultra low power with high speed, high density, and high I/O counts in a single device.

    • The high-performance, low-cost XC9500™ families of CPLDs are targeted for systems that require rapid design development, long system life, and field upgrade capability.

Design Resources
Xilinx offers a family of powerful, easy-to-use design tools that enable the customer to implement designs in Xilinx programmable logic devices. These development solutions combine powerful technology with a flexible, easy-to-use graphical interface.

  • Development Systems

  • Evaluation Software

  • Design / Starter Kits

Hardware & Cables
A full line of programming cables, tools and application specific development and expansion boards give the designer the resources to customize and target their designs.

  • Programming Solutions

  • Development Boards

  • Board Modules

About Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGAs
The 90nm Spartan-3 platform is the world's lowest-cost FPGA offering unrivaled price points with more density and performance features than any other device in its class. They feature an industry-leading combination of block and distributed RAM, up to 784 I/Os, MicroBlaze 32-bit RISC soft processors and XtremeDSP functionality with dedicated 18x18 multipliers that deliver up to 330 billion multiply and accumulates (MACs) per second. Additionally, Spartan-3 devices support 24 leading I/O standards,
including PCI, DDR, LVDS and RSDS.

Purchase Spartan-3 FPGAs
Visit the Xilinx Online store at www.xilinx.com/store to begin your n ext low-cost FPGA Design today.

About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.

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