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XILINX ANNOUNCES HOME NETWORKING INDUSTRY FORUM 2001 Full-day event to provide comprehensive overview of home networking technology SAN JOSE, Calif., December 4, 2000 – Xilinx Inc., (NASDAQ:XLNX), in collaboration with Insight Electronics, today announced the Home Networking Industry Forum 2001, an all day event focusing on the new and explosive market of home networking. The event will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center on February 1, 2001, and is intended to provide a technical overview of current state-of-the-art home networking technologies as well as insights into future product and technology directions. Admission is free with seating limited to 500. Visit www.xilinx.com/events/seminars/hnif for complete agenda and registration information. Presentations will be delivered by industry visionaries, experts, and chairs of home networking consortiums. Topics will range from broadband access, residential gateways, and home networking technologies to information appliances. There will also be live demonstrations of home networking products and solutions. A panel discussion will focus on the challenges associated with the adoption, evolution, and interoperability of the various home networking standards. Xilinx CEO Wim Roelandts will deliver the keynote address. “It's clear that the home is the next frontier where networking technology will be broadly deployed,” said Roelandts. “With a wide range of industry representatives assembled at one location, the forum will provide a unique opportunity for engineering professionals to gain important insights into the emerging market of home networking.” While the forum is geared primarily for FPGA and ASIC system designers who are either involved or interested in the design of home networking products, the event also promises valuable insights for those who are simply curious about home networking technology. “We are very pleased to be working closely with Xilinx in the creation and production of such an important industry-wide event,” said ,” said Greg Provenzano President and CEO of Insight Electronics. “Home Networking Forum 2001 will help the engineering community remain current with new and evolving technologies.” Insight Electronics, a Memec company, is the largest technical distributor of semiconductors in North and South America. With 52 divisions in the U.S., Mexico, Canada and South America, and a focused line-card of 25 leading semiconductor companies, Insight’s sales team and field application engineers (FAEs) are as knowledgeable as its suppliers about the products, processes and technologies available. The company’s value-added services, combined with its expertise in design, inventory management, logistics and use of e-business tools, ensure that customers receive the products they need, when and where they need them. Web address is http://www.insight-electronics.com./ Xilinx is the leading supplier of complete programmable logic solutions,
including advanced integrated circuits, software design tools, predefined
system functions delivered as 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, and consumer markets. For
more information, visit the Xilinx web site at http://www.xilinx.com.
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