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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
XILINX EXPANDS LOW COST LEADERSHIP WITH NEXT
GENERATION
WEBPACK 6.1i DESIGN SOLUTION
Company widen design support for industry's lowest cost 90nm
Spartan-3 FPGAs - builds on existing full-range CPLD product support
SAN JOSE, Calif., October 9, 2003 - Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX)
today announced that it has expanded support for its Spartan-3 family
with the company's next generation free, web-downloadable design
solution - ISE WebPACK 6.1i. The new design solution gives
customers greater flexibility in taking advantage of the world's
lowest cost and only 90nm FPGAs - the Spartan-3 family - to dramatically
reduce overall design time and costs. Already, over 125,000 designers
worldwide utilize the ISE WebPACK design environment, demonstrating
the prevalence of Xilinx software tools for designing simple glue
logic to complete "system-on-a-chip" FPGA designs.
"Xilinx continues to deliver complete design solutions to our
customers so they can fully leverage our industry-leading low cost
FPGA and CPLD solutions," said Rich Sevcik, senior vice president
and general manager of the Programmable Logic Systems group at Xilinx.
"ISE WebPACK is the PLD industry's defacto standard for highly
capable, easy-to-use design environments and is widely accessible
to all types of designers worldwide given that it is web-downloadable."
ISE WebPACK 6.1i has been significantly enhanced to enable
users to complete designs faster and reduce overall project costs.
Project Navigator, the heart of the ISE WebPACK environment,
includes new features to simplify many tasks within the design flow.
For example, several enhancements have been made to the PACE (Pinout
and Area Constraint Editor) feature, including support for CPLDs
and a new comma separated value (CSV) interface for PCB layout assistance.
Additionally, ISE WebPACK 6.1i environment includes an embedded
HTML browser for more convenient viewing of CPLD fitter reports,
error navigation, and web pages. To ensure greater ease-of-use,
the embedded web browser creates an unbroken connection between
the ISE design environment and the award winning Xilinx support.xilinx.com
website.
Providing customers with a broader range of support for Xilinx devices,
ISE WebPACK 6.1i now supports three devices in the Spartan-3
family - the XC3S50, XC3S200 and XC3S400. Xilinx is now shipping
on schedule four of eight Spartan-3 FPGA family members. ISE WebPACK
6.1i also supports low to mid-range devices in the Spartan-II/IIE
and Virtex-II platform FPGA families. ISE WebPACK 6.1i continues
to offer support for Xilinx CoolRunner-II and XC9500 CPLD device
families.
Introduced in 1999, ISE WebPACK 6.1i is a subset of Xilinx's
ISE Foundation design tools. ISE WebPACK provides fast and
convenient access to the ISE design environment at no cost. The
completely integrated ISE WebPACK environment offers users
with access to easy-to-use design entry tools, optimized synthesis,
an average 31% faster performance than the nearest competitive offering,
total verification from any point in the design flow, and powerful
implementation in a single push-button integrated environment. With
ISE WebPACK 6.1i, designers are now notified when software
updates are available, downloading and installing only those files
applicable to their installation. This convenience ensures that
designers have the most up to date design environment.
Price, platforms, and availability
ISE WebPACK 6.1i is available immediately for download from www.xilinx.com/ise/WebPACK6.
ISE WebPACK 6.1i runs on both Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
ISE WebPACK 6.1i provides support for all Xilinx leading-edge
PLD families, including CoolRunner-II CPLDs, Spartan-IIE and Spartan-3
FPGA families, and the Virtex-II platform FPGAs including the Virtex-II
Pro™ XC2VP2™ FPGA. Visit the Xilinx web site at www.xilinx.com/ise/webpack6
for complete information on the free ISE WebPACK and other
ISE products.
About Xilinx ISE version 6.1i software environment
With over 31% better synthesis performance that results in up to
60% cost savings over competing solutions, Xilinx ISE 6.1i is the
world's highest performance software for programmable logic. ISE
6.1i sets the industry standard for ease-of-use, solves traditional
design bottlenecks to speed design and verification, and dramatically
reduces customer's overall design cycle time and design costs. The
software suite, coupled with Xilinx Virtex-II Pro and Spartan-3
FPGAs, offer breakthrough price points, device densities, and performance
to provide designers with an ideal ASIC replacement solution. For
information about ISE 6.1i, visit www.xilinx.com/ise.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic
solutions. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
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