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Xilinx Press Release #0271
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AVNET DESIGN SERVICES AND XILINX ANNOUNCE
NEW VIRTEX-II DEVELOPMENT KIT
PHOENIX, Ariz., and SAN JOSE, Calif., May 1, 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 development kit for Xilinxâ Virtex-IIÔ
FPGAs. The development kit is a robust hardware platform that includes
a high-capacity Virtex-II XC2V1500 or XC2V4000 FPGA, DDR-SDRAM memory,
Flash memory, a PCI/PCI-X bus, and several Avnet Vertical expansion
Bus (Avbus) connectors to provide all the components needed to quickly
and easily create a complete system application.
Speeding Development Time
“Imagine if a designer could begin a design two weeks before the
project starts. In many cases, that is the only way to reach aggressive
time-to-market goals imposed by management,” said Warren Miller,
vice president of marketing, Avnet Design Services. “The only way
to achieve that two-week boost is to use engineering work that is
already completed. Using a full featured development kit with a
high-capacity FPGA and an extensive set of support components including
memory, peripherals, bus interfaces and expansion connectors, can
buy a designer a few critical weeks at the beginning of a design.
Much of the FPGA development can take place on the development kit,
allowing design to begin even before a hardware prototype is available,”
Miller added.
“This approach is most effective when the design requires the selection,
integration or development of IP Cores. If the hardware platform
contains the memory, interface and physical layer components required
by the application, the usual set of false starts and dead ends
at the beginning of a design can be avoided, saving even more time.
“Designers are finding that high-capacity FPGAs can be used to implement
entire systems on a chip, but getting a design to market can be
a very big challenge. The new Virtex-II development kit has a large
Xilinx Virtex-II FPGA, memory, peripherals, bus interface and expansion
connectors so designers can develop their prototype without the
need to build a prototype printed circuit board,” Miller said.
“Time to market is key to product success and the new development
kit from Avnet Design Services will accelerate development time
for designers using Xilinx Virtex-II FPGAs,” said Sandeep Vij, vice
president of worldwide marketing for Xilinx. “In particular, this
kit will be very useful for designs based on the new Xilinx MicroBlaze
soft processor IP Core and its rich peripheral set.”
Kit Description
The Virtex-II development kit contains a printed circuit board,
complete design documentation, demonstration programs, and a board
support package to simplify application development. Major hardware
components on the board are the Xilinx XC2V1500 or XC2V4000 FPGA,
128MB of Micron DDR-SDRAM memory, 16MB of Flash memory, a PCI/PCI-X
bus, and several Avnet Vertical expansion Bus (Avbus) connectors
to allow the use of Avnet Design Services daughter cards. The Virtex-II
development kit with an XC2V4000 device can be ordered from Avnet
Design Services as part number ADS-XLX-V2-DEV4000 and is priced
at $2,500. Delivery time is 2 weeks. The Virtex-II development kit
with an XC2V1500 device can be ordered from Avnet Design Services
as part number ADS-XLX-V2-DEV and is priced at $1,000. For more
information on these or other ADS kits visit www.ads.avnet.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.
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 distributors 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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