Product Discontinuation Notification 
PDN99005

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Dear Valued Customer,

Subject: Product Discontinuation Notification (PDN99005). "Discontinuance of Certain Technology (0.8µM 10% shrink CMOS) Versions of the XC3000, XC3000A and XC3100A Product Families

Change Description: Xilinx previously announced process migrations and last time buy opportunities for the 0.8µM (10% shrink) CMOS versions of the above product families as follows:
 

PCN95002A	issued 11 August 1995
PCN95002B	issued 18 June 1996
PCN96001	issued 19 April 1996

This PDN is being issued as a reminder to those customers who have not updated their designs or process documentation to accept the current production versions of these product families (manufactured in 0.6µM CMOS technology). Please note that main stream production of these product families migrated to the 0.6µM CMOS technology over 3 years ago.

Product Change: Current product manufactured in the 0.6µM technology is form, fit and functionally equivalent to the earlier devices. This does not imply that design review may not be necessary if early designs contain race conditions that may be affected by the faster internal speeds of the 0.6µM product.

Reason For Change: Environmental laws have outlawed use of some of the chemicals that were used in the manufacture of 0.8µM (10% shrink) CMOS product. Therefore, Xilinx no longer has access to manufacturing processes capable of making these products with the current mask set.

Key Dates: 
Final orders accepted until 15 January 2000
Final deliveries on or before 15 April, 2000

Response: No response to this notification is required. Requests for additional data or support should be made within 90 days of notification. Please address any questions you may have via e-mail at "pcn@xilinx.com", or directly by fax at 408 559 1368.

Sincerely,

Joseph J. Fabula
Director Q/A