Press Releases - 2005

Corporate Announcements

	Xilinx-CMC Address System Level Design Challenges at 18th International Conference on VLSI Design (2005) December 28, 2005
	Xilinx Appoints Shelly Begun Vice President of Worldwide Human Resources December 22, 2005
	Xilinx Delivers Faster Timing Closure in ISE 8.1i Maximizing FPGA Performance Up to 70% Over Competing Solutions December 12, 2005
	Xilinx Appoints Patrick Little Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Services December 05, 2005
	Toshiba and Xilinx Agree to Pursue Joint Development of 65nm FPGAs with a View to Extend Foundry Relationship December 05, 2005
	Xilinx Signs Letter of Intent with Paltek to Enter Into Distribution Agreement November 17, 2005
	Xilinx Sets Up Authorized Training Provider Network to Accelerate the Growth of the PLD Market in Asia Pacific November 17, 2005
	Xilinx Increases Investment in Regional Headquarters to Support High-Growth Asia pacific Market November 15, 2005
	Xilinx Announces Record Quarter for High Volume Spartan Series October 31, 2005
	Xilinx Research Labs Expands to Europe with Opening of Ireland Research Centre October 27, 2005
	Xilinx Announces Industry's Most Comprehensive Suite of Programmable WiMAX Solutions October 25, 2005
	Xilinx Sweeps 2005 FPGA Journal Reader's Choice Awards October 19, 2005
	Xilinx Demonstrates Video-Over-IP Solution Using Virtex-4 Technology at IBC 2005 September 08, 2005
	Xilinx Demonstrates Enhanced Triple Module Redundancy Software Tool at MAPLD 2005 September 06, 2005
	U.S. Tax Court Rules in Favor of Xilinx on Cost Sharing Case September 02, 2005
	Xilinx Releases Activity Schedule for Embedded Systems Conference Boston August 29, 2005
	Xilinx Stockholders Elect J. Michael Patterson to Board of Directors August 17, 2005
	Xilinx Ships 5 Million 90nm Device August 16, 2005
	Xilinx to Establish New High Level Research Labs in Ireland July 20, 2005
	Xilinx Expands Partnership Agreement with Nu Horizons Electronics Corporation June 20, 2005
	Xiinx Appoints New CFO; Kris Chellam Remains with Company as SVP, Corporate and Enterprise Services June 07, 2005
	Xilinx Virtex-II Pro World's Most Popular 130nm FPGA June 03, 2005
	Xilinx Widens Process Technology Leadership Ships More Than 3.5 Million 90nm FPGAs June 03, 2005
	Xilinx Demonstrates High-Performance VIrtex-4 FPGAs at SuperComm 2005 June 01, 2005
	Xilinx Recognized for Excellence in Online Service and Support for Third Year in a Row May 11, 2005
	Xilinx Appoints Irish Executive to Chief Information Officer Post April 15, 2005
	Industry Veteran Hitoshi Yoshizawa Appointed President of Xilinx K.K. April 12, 2005
	Xilinx R&D Centre in India Helping Cistomers Worldwide Benefit from Programmable Chip Technologies March 17, 2005
	Xilinx Asia Pacific Headquarters Ready to Capitalize on Regional Market Opportunities March 16, 2005
	Xilinx Ranked Top Ten Most Popular Semiconductor Brand in China for 2004 March 02, 2005
	Xilinx Embedded Ecosystem Featured at Embedded Systems Conference San Francisco March 02, 2005
	Xilinx Expands its Award-Winning Customer Support Services in Asia Pacific February 01, 2005
	Xilinx to Participate in the OIF Common Electrical Interface Interoperability Testing at DesignCON WEST 2005 January 20, 2005
	Xilinx Jumps to No.5 on Future Magazine's Annual List of "100 Best Companies to Work For" January 11, 2005

Event Related Announcements

Product Announcements

December

	Xilinx Delivers 10 Million 90nm Device December 20, 2005
	Xilinx Places Trust in GE and its own Devices for Global Security December 19, 2005
	Xilinx Delivers Faster Timing Closure in ISE 8.1i Maximizing FPGA Performance Up to 70% Over Competing Solutions December 12, 2005
	Xilinx and UMC Extend Long-Time Manufacturing Relationship to 65nm & Below December 05, 2005

November

High-Performance Platform from National Semiconductor and Xilinx Accelerates Design of Gigahertz-Speed Data Acquisition Systems November 07, 2005

October

	Xilinx and Wavesat Collaborate in Development of World's First Mini-PCi Reference Design for WiMAX October 25, 2005
	Xilinx Announces Industry's Most Comprehensive Suite of Programmable WiMAX Solutions October 25, 2005
	Xilinx Delivers Highest Performance DSP Solutions for Multimedia, Video and Imaging Applicaitons October 24, 2005
	Xilinx Targets $2 Billion High-Performance DSP Market with FPGA Industry's First Application Optimized Solution Roadmaps October 24, 2005
	Xilinx Targets $2 Billion High-Performance DSP Market with FPGA Industry's First Application Optimized Solution Roadmaps October 24, 2005
	Xilinx Announces Fully-Compliant Reprogrammable 802.17 RPR Mac Solution October 19, 2005
	Xilinx Demonstrates IEEE802.17 - Compliant RPR MAC Solution at NSDC 2005 October 18, 2005
	Xilinx, Inc. Expands Partnership Agreement with Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. in Asia Pacific October 03, 2005
	Xilinx Reaffirms Commitment to Automotive Market with Introduction of Spartan-3E and Virtex-4 XA Devices October 03, 2005

September

	Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGAs Enable Latest Digital Audio Products for Touring Musicians September 28, 2005
	Modulus Maximizes High Definition MPEG-4 AVC Encoder Performance with Xilinx FPGA Technology September 20, 2005
	Xilinx Bolster Automotive Solution Offerings with First FPGA IP for Controller Area Networks September 19, 2005
	Xilinx Simplifies Embedded System Design with New Integrated Power PC and MicroBlaze Development Kit September 12, 2005
	Xilinx and 4i2i Demonstrate Industry's First High Definition H.264/AVC Encoder Available in A Single FPGA September 07, 2005

August

	Xilinx Announces Compliance of World's Lowest-Cost Programmable PCI Express Solution August 23, 2005
	Siemens Medical and Xilinx Team to Deliver Breakthrough 3D Medical Imaging Solutions August 02, 2005

July

	Xilinx Embedded Power PC Reference Design with Treck Software Delivers Gigabit Ethernet Performance July 27, 2005
	Xilinx Accelerates Virtex-4 FPGA Performance by an Additional 26% with New Xplorer Utility July 11, 2005

June

	Xilinx Demonstrates 7x Signal Integrity Advantage of Virtex-4 FPGAs to Engineers Around the World June 14, 2005
	Synplicity Optimizes Industry Leading Synplify pro Software to Enable Efficient Implementation of DSPs into Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs June 13, 2005
	Xilinx Embedded PowerPC Solution Gains Significant Industry Adoption June 08, 2005
	Xilinx Announces Immediate Availability of Industry's First 4 Gbps Programmable Fibre Channel Solution June 06, 2005
	Xilinx CorEdge and Yamaichi Demonstrate Flexible 10Gbps Packet Processing on Industry Standard ATCA/AMC Platform June 06, 2005
	Xilinx Announces Customer Shipments of Virtex-4 FX60 FPGAs with Industry's First 622Mbps - 10.3125Gbps Serial Transceivers June 06, 2005

May

	Xilinx Improves Performance and Productivity for Virtex-4 Platform FPGA Designs with PlanAhead 7.1 Tool May 23, 2005
	Xilinx Strengthens DSP IP Library with New Floating-Point and Digital Video Broadcasting S2 Cores May 19, 2005
	New Xilinx MicroBlaze Soft Processor Increases Clock Frequency by 25 Percent May 16, 2005
	Xilinx Expands Signal Processing Portfolio for Digital Communication System Design May 04, 2005

April

	Xilinx Shows 1-5 Watt power Savings Per FPGA in New Whitepaper, Webcast and RockertLabs Demonstration Sites April 29, 2005
	Xilinx Virtex Series Surpasses Three Billion in Revenue April 26, 2005
	Xilinx Extends Quality Leadership with ISO/TS 16949 Automotive Certification April 25, 2005
	Philips and Xilinx Deliver World's First Low-Cost Programmable PCI Express Solution April 11, 2005
	Xilinx Ships Virtex-4 LX200: World's Highest Density FPGA April 01, 2005

March

	Xilinx Extends Low Cost Leadership with New ISE WebPACK 7.1i March 29, 2005
	Xilinx Demonstrates 1 to 5 Watts Lower Power Per FPGA in Virtex-4 Family Compared to Competing FPGAs March 24, 2005
	Xilinx Issues White Paper Showing 73% Lower Static Power in Virtex-4 Compared to Competing FPGAs March 24, 2005
	Xilinx Selected as FPGA Suplier of Choice for BAE Systems Aerospace and Defense Products March 14, 2005
	Industry Expert Dr. Howard Johnson Validates Signal Integrity Advantage Provided by Virtex-4 FPGAs; Data Now Available on Xilinx Web Site March 10, 2005
	Xilinx Ships Virtex-4 SX55 - World's Fastest FPGA for DSP March 09, 2005
	Xilinx Announces Low Cost Development Platform for Virtex-4 SX - the World's Fastest FPGA Family for DSP March 09, 2005
	Xilinx and AccelChip Deliver Industry's First Design Flow Form MATLAB/Simulink and System Generator to Verified FPGA System March 08, 2005
	New Modelism Xilinx Edition-III Offers Faster Simulation and Increased Design Capacity March 07, 2005
	Xilinx Simplifies Embedded System Design with New 7.1 Release of Award-Winning Platform Studio Suite March 07, 2005
	Xilinx Virtex-4 FX FPGAs with PowerPC Processor Deliver Breakthrough 20x performance Boost March 07, 2005
	Xilinx Accelerates World's Fastest FPGAs - New ISE 7.1i Release Delivers 70% Logic Performance Advantage March 01, 2005
	Xilinx Shatters Price/Density Barrier for Low Cost FPGAs with New Spartan-3E Family Starting at Less than $2.00 March 01, 2005

February

	Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGAs Selected for Innovative Microsoft Telematics Solution February 28, 2005
	Achieving Superior Signal Integrity for Breakthrough Systems Performance February 28, 2005
	Virtex-4 World's Fastest FPGAs Now Even Faster with New Speed Grade Files February 23, 2005
	Signal Integrity Expert Dr. Howard Johnson Discusses Innovations for Achieving Breakthrough Performance Using Virtex-4 FPGas February 23, 2005
	Xilinx Spartan-3 and Virtex-II Pro FPGAs Win Multiple Designs in Mangrove MPLS Platforms February 22, 2005
	Xilinx and Sensory Networks Team to Deliver Latest Network Security Platform February 18, 2005
	Xilinx Grows CPLD Market Segment Share Passes Lattice and Takes Over #2 Position February 16, 2005
	Xilinx Sells Low Cost FPGAs through Online Store February 15, 2005
	Xilinx Enables Programmable Wireless Base Station of the Future February 14, 2005
	Can You See Me Now? Xilinx Chips Enable Next-Generation Video Phone Services February 14, 2005
	Xilinx Embedded Systems Conference San Francisco and Microprocessor Summit February 10, 2005
	Xilinx Offers Free Hands On Workshops for Award-Winning Embedded Platform Design at ESC San Francisco February 08, 2005
	Xilinx FPGA Embedde Processing Platform Studio Prestigious DesignVision Award from IEC February 07, 2005

January

	Xilinx Delivers Industry's Fastest Microcontroller with New PowerPC Based UltraController-II Reference Design January 31, 2005
	Xilinx Virtex-II Pro X FPGAs Cut System Cabling Costs by Tens of Thounsands of Dollars January 31, 2005
	Customer Bulletin - New Power Tool and Web Seminar Show Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs Consume 1/10th the Power of Competing FPGAs January 31, 2005
	Xilinx PlatformFPGAs Enable Latest 160 Gbps Switch Fabric from TeraChip January 31, 2005
	Xilinx Releases Production Virtex-4 FPGAs January 31, 2005
	Xilinx Platform Studio Named Finalist for Inagural IEC DesignVision Award January 26, 2005
	Xilinx Extends Aerospace and Defense Market Leadership with Deliver of Advanced Device for QPRO Product Family January 25, 2005
	Xilinx Low-Power CoolRunner CPLDs Nominated by EDN Magazine as Finalist for "Greatest Innovation of the past 15 Years" Award January 20, 2005
	Latest Data Shows Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs Consume Less Than 1/10th the Power of Competing FPGAs January 19, 2005
	Xilinx Planahead v2.2 Tool Delivers Up to 2X Performance Boost and 50% Design Cycle Reduction for Virtex-4 FPGAs January 12, 2005
	Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs Win "Product of the Year" Award from Electronic Products Magazine January 11, 2005
	Xilinx Ships New Virtex-4 FX12 FPGA January 04, 2005