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SAN JOSE, Calif., August 2, 1999—Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced the appointment of Thomas R. Lavelle to the position of vice president and general counsel. Lavelle comes to Xilinx after spending more than 15 years at Intel Corp. He began there in 1983 and held various positions of increasing responsibility in the Intel legal department, handling treasury, securities, technology licensing, antitrust enforcement and litigation activities. From 1993-1999, he served as group counsel for a number of Intel organizations, including sales and marketing, technology and manufacturing, computing enhancement, corporate matters and securities. Lavelle interrupted his career with Intel briefly in 1992-1993 to work as vice president and general counsel for NeXT, Inc. Lavelle earned his J.D. degree from the University of Santa Clara School of Law and his bachelor's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. "We are extremely pleased to have a person with Tom's breadth of legal experience in the semiconductor industry on our executive management team," said Wim Roelandts, president and CEO at Xilinx. "He brings a perspective that will be invaluable as Xilinx continues to grow." 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 commands more than half of the world market 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. Xilinx is a registered trademark. All XC-prefix product
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