Since becoming available in October 2005, the Mitrion Platform has been chosen by most of the FPGA Supercomputing industry leaders worldwide. Mitrionics' unique and revolutionary technology removes the barriers of high cost, extreme complexity, and long development times to make FPGA Supercomputing performance accessible to entirely new markets and segments of scientists and developers. Using the Mitrion-C Programming Language, a mere 180 lines of code can generate 150,000 lines of VHDL (Very high speed integrated circuits -- Hardware Description Language).

"Accelerating application performance for the supercomputing industry is an exciting new growth segment for Xilinx and one that truly benefits from the tremendous processing potential of our highest performance FPGAs," stated Steve Lass, director of Software Product Marketing at Xilinx. "Mitrionics has made FPGA Supercomputing their core company focus and their software-centric Mitrion Platform is ideally suited towards meeting the technology and market requirements of scientists and researchers."

"The Virtex-4 Platform from Xilinx is an important technology milestone for the industry as it will allow even greater processing acceleration for supercomputing applications running on the Mitrion Virtual Processor," stated Anders Dellson, CEO of Mitrionics, Inc. "The Mitrion Platform is fully compatible with Virtex-4 FPGAs, and applications written using Mitrion C for Virtex-II devices can easily be ported to next-generation FPGAs with just the press of a button."

The Mitrion Platform -- Rapid Development for FPGA-Based Supercomputing Applications

The Mitrion Virtual Processor and Mitrion Software Development Kit provide a unique solution that makes it possible to develop supercomputing applications for FPGAs on a true software level. This dramatically reduces the total cost for FPGA-based software acceleration, and more importantly, enables the whole supercomputing industry to benefit from FPGAs.

About Xilinx Virtex-4 Platform FPGAs

Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs deliver more options, higher performance and lower power than any other FPGA family available today. With more than 100 technical innovations, the Virtex-4 family consists of 17 devices and three domain-optimized platforms; Virtex-4 LX FPGAs optimized for logic-intensive designs, Virtex-4 SX FPGAs optimized for high-performance signal processing, and Virtex-4 FX FPGAs optimized for high-speed serial connectivity and embedded processing. A multi-platform approach makes it possible for customers to select the optimal mix of resources for their application to achieve the highest functionality and breakthrough performance at the lowest cost. Devices are shipping now. For more information on the Virtex-4 product family, visit www.xilinx.com/virtex4.

About Mitrionics

Mitrionics, Inc. is a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Mitrionics AB based in Lund, Sweden. The company was founded in 2000 and has key industry relationships with Cray, Nallatech, and Silicon Graphics. The Mitrion Platform includes the Mitrion Virtual Processor and Mitrion Software Development Kit which enable FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) to be programmed easier and faster than ever before possible, thereby providing customers with revolutionary computer power for their most critical applications. The Mitrionics technology makes supercomputing performance acceleration accessible to an entire new market of scientists and developers previously unable to benefit from it because of high prices, complex design skills needed, and extremely long development times. For more information, visit the company Web site at www.mitrionics.com, or call 310-558-9495, or email: Email Contact.

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