Xcell 39 - First Quarter 2001:
The Quarterly Journal for Xilinx Programmable Logic Users


View From The Top
Cover Story
Innovations
Perspective
New Products
Success Stories
Applications
Event Schedule
Software
XPERTS Partner
Reference

From the Editor: Win a Handspring™ Visor PDA and Help Us Improve Xcell 55KB

View from the Top
FPGAs Are Changing the Consumer Marketplace 316KB

Cover Story
Riding the New Wave of FPGA System-on-a-Chip 520KB

Innovations
Product Development: Xilinx eSP Initiative Will Accelerate Time-to-Market for Consumer Products 75KB
Packaging: Save Prime PCB Real Estate with Chip Scale Packaging 137KB
Hardware: Get the Most Out of Microcontroller-Based Designs: Put a Xilinx CPLD Onboard 238KB

Perspective
eSP Initiative: eSP Solutions at Your Fingertips 150KB
Interoperability: FPGA-Enabled Home Networking Bridges Isolated Islands of Technology 411KB
Wireless Communications: Smart Phones - From Luxury Item to Lifestyle Necessity 370KB

New Products
Development Tools: Design FPGAs Using Free, Downloadable WebPACK™ Software 169KB
Reference Design: Intel® XScale™ Microarchitecture Reference Design Features a Spartan™-II Companion Chip 253KB
Development Boards: Avnet Design Services Evaluation Kits Make It Easy to Design with Xilinx Products 173KB

Success Stories
ReplayTV: Xilinx FPGAs and IRL Keep ReplayTV™ on Target 127KB
Palm Computing: TRG Palm Computing PDAs... Using CoolRunner™ CPLDs 97KB

Applications
User Constraint Files: Use the WebPACK Project Navigator™ to Set Design Constraints in CoolRunner CPLDs 83KB
Hardware: Use Mulitple Configuration Bitstreams to Enhance Your Next FPGA-Based Design 293KB
HDL-Advisor: Clock Multiplication in Virtex™-E and Virtex-II FPGAs 119KB

Internet Reconfigurable Logic: Celoxica Implements "Soft Hardware" in Internet Reconfigurable MultiMedia Terminals 184KB

FPGAs: Build Scalable DSP Systems with Nallatech DIME™ Modules Populated by Virtex-E FPGAs 287KB

Event Schedule
Year 2001 Xilinx Worldwide Event Schedule 52KB

Software
Integration: Synplicity Certify™ Software Integrates Xilinx ChipScope™ Debugging Tool 80KB

XPERTS Partner
Development Tools: FUSE™- Field Upgradeable Systems Environment 142KB

Reference
Virtex-II and Virtex Series FPGAs 54KB
Spartan 54KB
XC9500™ and CoolRunner CPLDs 74KB
XC18V™, XC17V™, and XC17S™ PROMs 51KB
QPro™ QML-Certified FPGAs and PROMs 62KB
Intellectual Property Solutions 60KB
Global Services 70KB
Software Solutions 127KB