FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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SAN JOSE, Calif., December 14, 1998 – Adding momentum to its Silicon Xpresso initiative, Xilinx, Inc., (NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced it is negotiating to acquire technology that supports its strategy of providing customers with Internet Team Design (ITD). The software, Design Navigator, is a team-based, web-enabled software environment that seamlessly unites design entry, synthesis, place and route and simulation functions. ITD provides an easy-to-use design environment to organize, capture, analyze and link multiple design projects that have been distributed to design teams and individuals working in different locales. “Over time, we are augmenting our Foundation Series ready-to-use design software with the ability to enable team-based design over the Internet,” said Rich Sevcik, senior vice president of software, cores and support at Xilinx. “This capability will become more important as programmable logic devices such as Virtex FPGAs grow in density beyond a million gates. The methodology for designing with these large devices will involve teams that very likely will be located in different geographical locations.” Xilinx delivered the first phase of Silicon Xpresso ITD in November with the Foundation 1.5i release. This release includes seamless access to the worldwide web for designers utilizing Virtex FPGAs. Over thirty thousand copies of this software are now being delivered to Xilinx customers. The second phase of ITD is expected to be delivered in the first quarter of 1999. This release will support team designs across geography, whether it is around the world or across an office aisle. ITD enhancements will continue throughout 1999, facilitated by the Design Navigator technology. The new Design Navigator software has been architected to enable building
complex electronic systems that require the coordination of multiple designers
and/or product development teams. Design Navigator provides an environment
to decompose a complex design into manageable parts and then make those
parts available to domain specific teams for complex programmable logic
design. By employing this technology in Internet, Intranet, and other
network domains, design teams will be able to build complex Virtex design
applications in parallel with real-time design management. This will speed
the design process and eliminate version and revision control errors.
Design teams also will be able to readily share and reuse IP, including
complex core functions.
Design Navigator employs “results-oriented-processing” technology that uses auto-make features to automate and tightly integrate the process steps for each design source within a project. This reduces design entry errors and shortens the design cycle. The auto-make feature checks for dependencies between process steps and automatically runs predecessor processes that are out-of-date or that have not been run. This feature reduces design errors by ensuring that each process step is operating on the most current process results and design data. This release contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations or beliefs as well as a number of assumptions about future events, and that are subject to factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. The reader is cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are not a guarantee of future performance and are subject to a number of uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside the control of Xilinx. The forward-looking statements in this release address a variety of subjects, including, for example, the expected acquisition of the Design Navigator software and the benefit of such software to Xilinx’s business and customers. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements: the risks that Xilinx will not reach agreement with the owner of the Design Navigator software regarding the potential acquisition, and that the acquisition will not be consummated; the risk that the necessary approvals for such acquisition may not be obtained; the risk that the software, if acquired, will not be successfully integrated with Xilinx’s business; and increased competition and technological changes in the industry in which Xilinx competes. For a detailed discussion of these an other cautionary statements, please refer to Xilinx’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 28 1998, and its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended October 3, 1998. 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. #9855
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