SAN JOSE, Calif., June 28, 2000—Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX), the leading innovator in programmable logic solutions and Lara Networks, Inc., the industry leader in high-performance Network Application Processors for the Internet infrastructure market, today announced the availability of a new reference design for interfacing to Xilinx® Virtex^TM-E FPGAs and the LNI7010 Search Engine, which use Lara’s patent-pending Associative Processing Technology^TM (APT). This design solution is the first product in a collaboration targeting networking vendors to address the complexity of the new Internet infrastructure.

The design solution, which is ideal for communications and network applications such as Gigabit Ethernet, virtual private networks (VPN), network security, address filtering and high-end routers, is expected to help customers develop products at an accelerated pace ensuring faster time-to-market. System designers and Internet technology consultants who are creating Layer 2, 3 and 4 products requiring ultra-fast search capability of the network database will benefit from using this design solution. Using Xilinx exclusive digital delay locked loops (DLLs) and Select I/O+^TM technology, the Virtex-E FPGA can offer a robust interface to the Lara Networks LNI7000 family of Search Engines. The integrated interface supports Network Database entry sizes of 68-bits, 136-bits or 272-bits in all packet-processing operations. When designing high-end Internet devices, such as routers and switches, designers can cascade up to 31 Search Engines from Lara Networks, thereby enabling the creation of search tables with unparalleled depths of up to one million, 68-bit entries.

For smaller network database applications, designers can use the flexible on-chip resources in the Virtex, Virtex-E and Spartan®-II FPGAs such as internal fast dedicated carry chains, built-in shift registers, and the Xilinx SelectRAM+^TM technology that offers both True Dual-Port^TM block RAM, and distributed RAM resources. To assist system developers to accelerate their design efforts, Xilinx has developed several applications notes and HDL reference designs, which provide an added advantage in developing products in a timely manner. These development resources are available without charge from Xilinx at www.xilinx.com/products/xaw/memory/embedded/cam.htm

"Xilinx FPGAs provide customers the complete flexibility of memory resources to incorporate CAM functions into their designs," said Bruce Weyer, senior marketing director for the Advanced Products Group at Xilinx. "The programmable SelectI/O feature on the Virtex series and Spartan-II FPGAs permits the Lara LNI7000 family of Search Engines to operate at the highest speeds. This allows network vendors to design products with unprecedented levels of performance and search intelligence.”

"We are happy to work with Xilinx as part of the Lara Alliance Partnership (LAP) program. Xilinx Virtex series and Spartan-II FPGAs will provide our global customers in the Internetworking market space with new levels of system integration and flexibility to address today’s high-bandwidth data-intensive Internet applications,” said Anand Desai, vice president of corporate communications at Lara Networks. "The growth in demand for intelligent packet processing is rapidly changing the industry and has created a need for new and robust approaches. Users of Lara’s Associative Processing Technology^TM (APT) can now look up over a half million IP routing addresses, 83 million times every second. This provides the hardware acceleration that Internet applications at OC-48 and OC-192 line rates desperately seek." 

About Lara Networks, Inc.

Lara Networks, headquartered in San Jose, Calif., is the industry leader in high-performance Search Engines and will shortly be offering robust broadband switching applications. Lara designs, develops and markets silicon solutions using its patent-pending Associative Processing Technology™ (APT) to help fuel the converging communications industry. Lara's products are designed to optimize New World applications such as optical networking, web switching, policy enforcement, VPNs, QoS and CoS through hardware acceleration and content sensitive switching. The company’s deterministic, single cycle processors can scour silicon-based tables at unparalleled depths to speed along and add intelligence to networking applications. For more information please visit www.laranetworks.com.

About Xilinx

Xilinx is the leading innovator 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, high-reliability/military, and consumer markets. For more information, visit the Xilinx web site at www.xilinx.com.