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The Quarterly Journal for 
Xilinx Programmable Logic Users
XCell 27 - First Quarter, 1998 

General News 
Components 
Development System 
Design Hints and Applications 

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In this Q1 '98 issue... 

General News

Editorial: Xilinx Record-Breaking Technology - Today 
Technical Training Update 
See also: Xilinx Training Courses 
1998 Xilinx Data Book Now Available 
See also: Xilinx Data Book 

Product Information - Components 

Virtex - New Million-Gate 100 MHz FPGA Technology 
Introducing the New Spartan FPGA Family for Low Cost Applications - Under $2 by the Year 2000 
The XH3 HardWire FpgASIC Architecture Combines FPGA and ASIC Technologies 
pdf The World's First 0.25-micron FPGA Family 
pdf The XC4000XV: Introducing The Industry's First 500K Gate FPGA Family 
pdf The XC5200 Family - Now 30% Faster 
Using IBIS Specifications 

Customer Success Stories 

Matrox Graphics - The XC5204 is Used in the New Rainbow Runner 
The Hewlett-Packard Companion Scanner - A Partnership Success Story 
Major Program Success at Raytheon T.I. Made Possible with Xilinx Hi-Rel FPGAs 
Ericsson Telecom - Using XC9500 CPLDs for High-Performance Telecommunications Equipment 

Product Information - Development Systems

pdf Synplify - Achieving Optimal Synthesis Results 
pdf New UNISIM Libraries for Functional VHDL and Verilog Simulations 
pdf Foundation Series Software Now Delivers VHDL and Verilog 
Alliance and Foundation Series Software Configurations 
System-Level Design Capabilities Using Active-CAD from Aldec 
Industry's Highest-Performance PCI Solution for FPGAs 

Design Hints and Applications

pdf An FPGA Can Control Its Own Reconfiguration 
I/O Characteristics of the XC4000XL/XV and Spartan-XL Families 
pdf Using XC9500 JTAG and ISP in Manufacturing 
pdf Designing With XC9500 CPLD Family User-Programmable Grounds 
pdf A 200-MHz Pulse Generator 
pdf An Innovative Way to Reduce Electromagnetic Interference 
Using Decoupling Capacitors in 3.3-V Systems 
The Dangers of Hot Plug-In 
XC4000XL Power Calculation 
 

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