SAN JOSE, Calif., February 12, 2001 —Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) announced today the immediate availability of the XtremeDSP™/Virtex™-II Technical Simulcast event through video-on-demand and the DSP Developer's Kit via the Xilinx™ website at www.xilinx.com/dsp. The video-on-demand recasts the Xilinx half-day event held on January 25, 2001 at the Santa Clara Marriott Hotel and broadcast live via satellite to more than 50 cities throughout North America. Attended by 3,000 DSP and hardware designers, system architects, and engineering managers, the event provided training and access to tools for developing high performance DSP solutions up to 600 billion multiply accumulates cycles (MACs) per second. An additional 2,000 design engineers are expected to view the event via the video-on-demand. The developer's kit provides designers with access to the software tools required to complete high-performance DSP designs with Xilinx Virtex-II FPGAs. 

"As a system-level designer, the simulcast event provided me with valuable insight into new, cutting-edge products for enabling high performance DSP," said Ganesh Narayan, staff ASIC engineer at Blaze Network Products.  "The Xilinx Virtex-II FPGAs, coupled with design tools from The Mathworks, provide me with a single resource to create my devices which saves me a lot of time and effort."

The video-on-demand showcases event DSP experts and visionaries from Xilinx and The MathWorks discussing the challenges and opportunities associated with the new information technology era. Presenters included leading DSP analyst Will Strauss of Forward Concepts, who provided industry market trend and analysis in the area of broadband. Additional presenters discussed such topics as Platform FPGA, Virtex-II designs, new DSP design methodologies, tools and architectures for emerging communications and image processing applications. 

The developer's kit includes a 30-day evaluation license of MATLAB® and Simulink® system-level design tools from The MathWorks, FPGA Advantage 4.0 synthesis and simulation tools from Mentor Graphics, Synplify 6.0 synthesis tool from Synplicity, plus System Generator, Foundation Series ISE? implementation tools and optimized DSP algorithms from Xilinx. The kit provides designers with the opportunity to experiment and implement DSP functions in Virtex-II FPGAs to quickly determine trade-offs between performance, power consumption and silicon cost through the use of development tools from leading EDA vendors.

"In a global economy that operates on internet-speed, it is important to provide design engineers with information as quickly as possible.  The immediate availability of information can be the difference between to getting to market first or missing a market window, " said Sandeep Vij, vice president of marketing at Xilinx. "By broadcasting the event to over 50 cities simultaneously and then making the same information available by video-on-demand, Xilinx will provide many more design engineers with time-sensitive information regarding new DSP solutions.  These are the same design engineers who are developing DSP solutions to meet next generation broadband requirements of consumer electronics, communication infrastructure, and computer technology."

Xilinx XtremeDSP Initiative
The Xilinx XtremeDSP initiative, announced November 21, 2000, addresses the increasing need for high-performance DSP solutions driven by the broadband revolution. The initiative marks a major commitment by the company to further establish its leadership position as a high-performance DSP solutions provider.  Solutions from the initiative will support over 600 billion MACs per second, more than 100 times faster than the industry's leading embedded DSP processor core. The initiative also includes new DSP features in its next generation Virtex-II architecture, pre-engineered DSP algorithms, and enabling system-level DSP development tools.

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 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 website a www.xilinx.com.