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XILINX ANNOUNCES REFERENCE DESIGNS
New designs pave way to faster time to market
SAN JOSE, CA, December 19, 2000—Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ;XLNX) announced today the immediate availability of new reference designs for four different embedded and stand-alone processors. Users can now design with the IBM PowerPC, Intel's StrongARM and Pentium class, and QED processors and target the Xilinx® Virtex® and Spartan® series FPGAs. These reference designs are offered as part of the Xilinx Empower!TM processing solution for Platform FPGAs, delivering the highest performance programmable system for embedded processors while providing the freedom to choose a custom solution. This enables designers to have complete control over their performance, power, cost, and design environment criteria. "Xilinx Virtex FPGAs are ideal solutions for integrating high performance communications and embedded systems applications," said Bruce Weyer, senior director of marketing in the Advanced Products Group. "These reference interfaces and our broad range of IP solutions in our FPGAs demonstrate how our customers can shrink their development time and dramatically improve their time to market for embedded systems applications." The chart at the end of the release lists the performance and bandwidth capabilities for these interfaces, including processor speed, bus speed and width, and burst bandwidth. PowerPC 60X multi-processor bus interface: reference design for interfacing to multiple PowerPC processors, including the bus arbiter and protocols, SDRAM and Flash memory controllers implemented in Virtex-E or Virtex-II FPGAs. StrongARM design and development kit: available through Xilinx distribution partner Avnet Electronics for 32-bit/33-MHz PCI and 100 MHz SDRAM interfaces for Intel's StrongARM SA-1110 processors. The design utilizes a 100,000 gate Spartan-II FPGA. High performance interface for Pentium and QED processors: interface reference designs for 250 MHz QED RM7000A processor and 850 MHz Pentium class processors for direct interface to the Virtex-E and Virtex-II FPGAs. The Spartan-II family also supports the Pentium design. PowerPC core embedded in Virtex-II devices As previously announced, Xilinx is embedding a hard-core PowerPCTM 405 microprocessor from IBM into the Virtex-II architecture that will operate at 300 MHz to offer over 420 Dhrystone MIPs of performance, more than twice that of proposed competitive programmable solutions. The PowerPC 405 core has over six gigabytes peak communications bandwidth with the FPGA fabric. Availability These reference designs are available for free on the Xilinx web site at (processor central off Virtex page). The StrongARM development kit is available through Avnet Electronics, www.avnet.com. About Xilinx Xilinx is the leading supplier 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 fulfills more than
half of the world demand for these devices today. Xilinx solutions enable
customers to significantly reduce 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.
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