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Xcell 37 - Third Quarter 2000:
The Quarterly Journal for Xilinx Programmable Logic Users

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In this Q3 '00 issue...

From the Editor: The Partnership Model 54KB

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The Xilinx Business "Ecosystem" 353KB

Cover Story
Synplicity: Design Technology Advances Unleash Powerful New FPGA Capabilities 223KB

News
Partnerships: PowerPC Processors in Virtex™-II FPGAs 47KB

Software
Product Focus: Xilinx WebPACK™ Software Now Includes ModelSim 79KB
Innovations: New WebPACK Integrated Synthesis Environment (ISE) 107KB

New Technologies
DSP: The MathWorks and Xilinx take FPGAs into Mainstrem DSP 99KB

Products
Core Solutions: Xilinx DSP - The World's Highest-Performance Programmable DSP Solution 165KB
New Products - Cores: LavaCORE - A Configurable Java Processor 91KB
New Products - Cores: New HDLC and ADPM Cores 214KB
New Products - Cores: Moving the M8051Ewarp ASIC Core to a Virtex FPGA 102KB
Product Focus: Low Power CoolRunner™ CPLDs 122KB
Comparisons:CoolRunner CPLDs - Your Best Choice for Battery Operation 96KB
IP Development Tools: New Virtex XSV Development Board 223KB
New Products - Development Tools: Strathnuey - The Xilinx Technologies Integrator 96KB

Applications
Maximizing FPGA Design Performance Using Amplify from Synplicity 199KB
Inferring Read Only Memory in FPGA Compiler II and FPGA Express 72KB
Using Block-Level Incremental Synthesis in FPGA Compiler II and FPGA Express 177KB
Circuit Design: The "Flancter" 151KB

Success Stories
IRL Makes Console Switching Faster and More Reliable 107KB
Lucent Technologies Gets a Time-to-Market Advantage 78KB
Tektronix Logic Analyzers: 800 Mbit/sec Using Virtex FPGAs 114KB
McData Uses Xilinx FPGAs for Fibre-Channel Switch 255KB

  Columns / Reference
Market Analyst: PLDs - Your Competitive Edge for High Volume Production 120KB
Getting Started: Choices, Choices, and Opinions - How to Choose the Best Xilinx Programmable Logic Technology for Your Application 100KB
Distribution: Distribution Adds Value: Intel StrongARM Supported with Xilinx Spartan-II FPGAs 57KB
Perspective: Design Reuse Strategy for FPGAs 325KB
Reference: Virtex and XC4000X Series FPGAs 51KB
Reference: Spartan 51KB
Reference: XC9500™ and CoolRunner CPLDs 45KB
Reference: PROMs - XC18V™, XC17V™, and XC17S™ 48KB
Reference: QPRO™ QML-Certified FPGAs and PROMs 51KB