SAN JOSE, Calif., December 19, 2000 —Xilinx,Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) announced today the XtremeDSP^TM /Virtex^TM-II Technical Simulcast, a half-day event to provide solutions to the fast-growing, high performance DSP market.  Hosted in collaboration with The MathWorks, Inc., the event will be held at the Santa Clara Marriott Hotel on January 25, 2001 and will be broadcast live via satellite to movie theaters in 24 North American cities, including Dallas, Boston, Chicago, and Toronto. Designed as a technical seminar, well over 5,000 DSP and hardware designers, system architects, and engineering managers are expected to attend the free of charge event.  Visit the simulcast web site for complete agenda and registration information.

"This unique event will assemble the brightest DSP experts, providing a real-time learning opportunity for thousands of engineers and designers throughout North America who are instrumental in meeting the challenges presented by the broadband revolution," said Wim Roelandts, president and CEO of Xilinx.

Born out of the Xilinx XtremeDSP initiative, event presenters include DSP experts and visionaries from Xilinx and The MathWorks who will discuss challenges and opportunities associated with the new information technology era. Leading DSP analyst Will Strauss of Forward Concepts, will provide industry market trend and analysis in the area of broadband, including consumer electronics, communication infrastructure, and computer technology. Additional presenters will discuss such topics as Platform FPGA, Virtex-II designs, new DSP design methodologies, tools and architectures for emerging communications and image processing applications. 
The event is co-sponsored by leading EDA vendors Mentor Graphics and Synplicity, and distributors Avnet, Insight, and Nu Horizons.

Xilinx XtremeDSP Initiative
The Xilinx XtremeDSP initiative, announced November 21, 2000, addresses the increasing need for high-performance DSP solutions driven by the broadband revolution. The initiative marks a major commitment by the company to further establish its leadership position as a high-performance DSP solutions provider.  Solutions from the initiative will support over 600 billion multiply accumulates cycles (MACs) per second, more than 100 times faster than the industry's leading embedded DSP processor core. The initiative also includes new DSP features in its next generation Virtex-II architecture, pre-engineered DSP algorithms, and enabling system-level DSP development tools.

About Xilinx
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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