Xilinx Announces Complete Third-Party AllianceCORE IP Support for New Spartan-3 Platform FPGAS

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Xilinx, Inc. today announced that all AllianceCORE(TM) third-party IP providers immediately support the new Spartan(TM)-3 platform, the world's lowest cost FPGAs (announced 4/14/03). This early adoption by third-party IP providers bolsters the ecosystem of support for customers who are already designing with Spartan-3 today. Designers can now download datasheets on specific AllianceCORE IP cores that have been proven in Spartan-3 devices from the Xilinx web site.

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"The rapid early adoption of the Spartan-3 platform FPGA by our valued AllianceCORE partners underscores the importance of this family and the Xilinx value proposition," said Jerry Banks, Director of Global Alliances at Xilinx. "Spartan-3 continues to build on the strong heritage of the low cost, high volume Spartan family. Support from our AllianceCORE partners will further help to drive Xilinx into new higher volume applications enabled by industry-leading densities and price points".

The AllianceCORE program consists of over 35 members and is the largest IP partnership program in the FPGA industry. All members are trained and enabled to support customers with Spartan-3 IP now. The following partners participated in the Spartan-3 early access program:

  -- CAST, Inc., of Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey (www.cast-inc.com), offering
     general purpose IP for processors, peripherals, multimedia, networking,
     encryption, serial communications and bus interfaces;
  -- Eureka Technology of Los Altos, California (www.eurekatech.com), offers
     silicon proven IP for CPU interface, PCI, PCMCIA, memory control, and
     other peripheral functions for SoC designs; Helion Technology Ltd., of
     Cambridge, UK (www.heliontech.com), offering encryption, data security
     and DSP algorithms;
  -- Memec Design, of Tempe, A member of The Memec Group
    (www.memecdesign.com/xilinx), offering peripheral, bus interface,
     encryption and communications cores; Pinpoint Solutions, Inc., of
     Boulder, Colorado (www.asic-design.com) offering standards-based
     telecom and datacom IP;
  -- Robert Bosch GmbH of Reutlingen, Germany (www.can.bosch.com) --
     offering automotive and industrial interface IP;
  -- Xylon d.o.o. of Zagreb, Croatia (www.logicbricks.com) offering
     human-machine interfaces and industrial communication controllers.

For more information on these products, visit the Xilinx IP Center at http://www.xilinx.com/ipcenter. All cores are available for purchase directly from their' respective suppliers, most of whom support the terms of the SignOnce IP License, the industry's first multi-vendor common license for FPGA-based IP. Visit http://www.xilinx.com/ipcenter/signonce for more information.

About Spartan-3

Ranging from 50K to 5M system gates, the 90nm Spartan-3 platform is the world's lowest cost FPGA with unrivaled price points to address customer demand for low cost solutions. With Spartan-3, Xilinx is poised to address entirely new high volume applications in the "sweet spot" of mid-range ASICs -- such as low cost routers, storage servers, medical and industrial imaging, and residential gateways -- to significantly expand the total available market for the Spartan Series. For complete information about Spartan-3 FPGAs, visit http://www.xilinx.com/spartan3.

About Xilinx

Xilinx is the worldwide leader of programmable logic solutions. Additional information about Xilinx can be found at http://www.xilinx.com/ .

CONTACT: Jennifer Wright of Xilinx, Inc., +1-408-879-7727, or
jennifer.wright@xilinx.com

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