Xilinx Virtex-6 Family and Targeted Design Platforms Nominated for 2009 EDN China...

Xilinx Virtex-6 Family and Targeted Design Platforms Nominated for 2009 EDN
China Innovation Awards

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc (Nasdaq: XLNX) today
announced that its 40nm high-performance Virtex(R)-6 FPGA family and Targeted
Design Platforms have been selected from hundreds of products as finalists in
the 2009 EDN China Innovation Awards.

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"The nomination of Xilinx Targeted Design Platforms for this prestigious award
underscores the importance the industry has placed on the need for new
methodologies that move FPGAs further into mainstream systems development,"
said Mustafa Veziroglu, vice president for Xilinx product and solutions
management. "The new Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 families have once again set the
bar for industry-leading FPGA device functionality. Our Targeted Design
Platforms extend this leadership by enabling designers to be more productive
across a broader set of applications, reducing time spent on common
application infrastructure logic and increasing time spent on new,
differentiated capabilities."

The EDN China Innovation Awards program features nine categories in which
nominees demonstrated innovation that resulted in a significant advance in
technology and/or product development during the past 12 months. The finalists
are chosen by readers visiting http://award.ednchina.com who can cast their
vote through to Sept. 21. EDN China will announce the winners at an awards
ceremony in Shenzhen, China in November.

The Virtex-6 family is the high-performance silicon foundation for Xilinx
Targeted Design Platforms. Consuming 50 percent lower power and delivering 20
percent lower cost than the previous generation, the new family is built with
the right mix of programmability, integrated blocks for DSP, memory, and
connectivity support - including PCI Express(R) 2.0 compliant interface blocks
and high-speed transceivers supporting line rates beyond 11Gbps 11.- to
satisfy the insatiable demand for higher bandwidth and performance. Providing
15 percent higher performance and 20 percent lower power consumption compared
to competitive offerings, the new family operates on a 1.0v core voltage with
a 0.9v low-power option. These advances enable system architects to integrate
Virtex-6 FPGAs into their designs to enable 'green' central offices and data
centers, which is particularly relevant for the telecommunications industry as
it deploys new technologies to support the demand for internet video and rich
media content.

Introduced by Xilinx with its Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGA families, Targeted
Design Platforms provide embedded, DSP, and hardware designers alike with
access to a wide array of silicon devices supported by open standards, common
design flows, IP, development tools, and run-time platforms. The new Virtex-6
FPGA and Spartan-6 FPGA Evaluation Kits announced in June were the first in a
series of kits Xilinx plans to offer throughout the year that enable designers
to get started right out of the box with their evaluation and development of
systems. These kits provide all the elements needed to design right out of the
box, so both new and experienced FPGA users can achieve the best performance,
lowest power, highest bandwidth, and most feature-rich utilization. In
addition, the built-in scalability and plug-in expandability of the base
targeted design platform kits lay the foundation for rapid deployment by
Xilinx of domain-specific platform kits targeting connectivity, embedded, and
digital signal processing (DSP) applications.

About EDN China Innovation Awards
Now in its 19th year, the EDN Innovation Awards honors the products and people
that have shaped the electronics industry over the past year. It has become
the most prestigious award in the electronics design engineering category in
the North America Region. In 2005, this award was introduced in China by EDN
China to an overwhelming response among engineers, academics and the
electronics industry as a whole. A combination of votes from experts and
design engineers determines the winners of the year, who will also win an
honor in the China market. Like the EDN Innovation Awards, the EDN China
Innovation Awards is also held annually.

About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions. For
more information, visit www.xilinx.com.

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Bruce Fienberg
Xilinx, Inc.
408-879-4631
bruce.fienberg@xilinx.com

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