SAN JOSE, Calif., July 17, 2000—Xilinx, Inc., (NASDAQ: XLNX) announced today the immediate availability of 29 new IP cores for use with Xilinx® Foundation™  and Alliance™  3.1i software development tools. The cores support Virtex™-II, the next generation Virtex architecture, providing designers with a proven solution to accelerate the design of ten million system-gate FPGAs. Xilinx utilizes Smart-IP technology to deliver predictable, flexible, high performance cores that are scalable to any FPGA density without performance degradation. The release also includes general-purpose cores and DSP cores supporting Xilinx Virtex and Spartan®-II series FPGAs.

"Last year Xilinx set a new industry standard by providing complete IP support at the time of silicon availability for the Virtex-E and Spartan-II families,” said Rich Sevick, senior vice president of IP, services and support at Xilinx.  “Now we've raised the bar even further by making critical IP available for Virtex-II customers in advance of silicon.  This will enable our customers to start their ten million gate high-speed designs today.” 

Core Release Content
The release includes four groups of cores: digital signal processing (DSP), storage elements and memories, math functions, and basic elements. The DSP group includes high-performance cores, such as a parameterized FIR filter generator and FFTs. These DSP cores enable designers to implement high-performance signal processing systems that operate at up to 0.6 trillion Multiply-and-Accumulates (TERRA MAC) per second in Virtex-II architecture, the level of performance necessary for emerging applications such as 3G and 4G wireless base stations. 

In the storage elements and memories group, designers have access to cores such as parameterized asynchronous FIFOs and single-/dual-port on-chip memories which are key building blocks in many system-level designs. The math functions and basic elements group includes cores such as parameterized high-performance multipliers, sine/cosine lookup tables, accumulators, and adders and subtractors. A complete list of cores can be found on the Xilinx IP-Center.

License price and availability
All 29 cores are available now and can be downloaded over the internet from the Xilinx IP-Center.
The listed cores are provided to licensed users of Xilinx software at no extra cost.

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.