SAN JOSE, Calif., January 23, 2002—Xilinx, Inc., (NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced that the company has received the Product of the Year Award from Electronic Products magazine. Xilinx is the only programmable logic supplier to receive this award. 

For 26 years, Electronic Products has held an annual contest to review the products introduced that year and have chosen the most outstanding. The editorial board at the magazine considers the thousands of product introductions. The selections are based on significant advances in technology or its application, a decided innovation in design, or a substantial gain in price-performance. As usual, picking winners was made difficult by the many impressive products announced during the year. The Xilinx Virtex-II FPGA family was recognized as the FPGA platform to address next-generation designs. 

“Programmable logic has heretofore been limited to relatively simple computational tasks and glue logic functions,” said David Suchman, Digital IC editor at Electronic Products. “Now, for the first time, a programmable platform is available from Xilinx to enable rapid development of today's technically challenging applications.”

Ever-increasing performance and feature requirements are bringing new challenges to designers of complex high-performance digital applications such as data communications and DSP systems. Characterized by high logic integration, fast and complex routing of wide buses, and extensive pipeline and FIFO memory requirements, these systems' requirements challenge and exceed the capabilities of current PLDs, which lack the gate capacity, memory, routing resources, performance, and architecture flexibility to fully support these designs. 

The Electronic Products’ editors judged that the Xilinx Virtex-II solution (see Electronic Products, May 2001) is aimed at designers managing around the resulting signal integrity, system timing, EMI, and security issues in these complex systems. 

The Virtex-II family allows unlimited design changes throughout the development and production phases for optical networks, gigabit routers, wireless cellular base stations, modem arrays, and video broadcast systems. Capable of handling designs from 40,000 to 10 million system gates, the products feature an interconnect architecture for optimizing routing, and an advanced memory array with up to 4.5 Mbits of on-chip memory. An additional feature is the industry's first digitally controlled impedance technology, which maintains constant impedance even with temperature and voltage fluctuations. 

For more information on the winners, go to www.electronicproducts.com.

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 reduce significantly 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.

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Editorial Contact: 
Ann Duft
Xilinx Inc.
(408) 879-4726
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