Press Releases - 2004

Corporate Announcements

	Xilinx Announces $100M "Ecosystem" Venture Fund to Fuel Programmable Systems Industry Innovation December 20, 2004
	Avnet Electronics Marketing Announces Immediate Availability of Xilinx ATCA Design Kit December 15, 2004
	Xilinx at Denali Memcon 2004 November 05, 2004
	Xilinx at 2nd International System on Chip (SoC) November 01, 2004
	Xilinx Introduces Next-Generation EasyPath FPGAs Priced Below Structured ASICS October 18, 2004
	Media Alert for Convergence 2004 October 15, 2004
	Toshiba,Xilinx Announces Strategic Foundry Relationship, Reach 90nm/300mm October 14, 2004
	Xilinx Rallies for the Walk for AIDS Silicon Valley October 13, 2004
	Xilinx Chairman & CEO Wim Roelandts to Participate in Gartner Dataquest Semiconductor Industry Summit September 10, 2004
	Xilinx at Embedded Systems Conference, Booth #401 September 08, 2004
	Xilinx to Showcase Breakthrough Virtex-4 Platform FPGAs at Programmable World 2004 September 07, 2004
	Xilinx Executes on FPGA Processor Leadership Strategy, Forms New Embedded processing Division September 06, 2004
	Xilinx Announces New DSP Division, Industry Veteran Omid Tahernia Named Vice President and General Manager September 06, 2004
	Xilinx Announces Investment in He Jian Technology Co. July 27, 2004
	Xilinx Donates US$330K to Prestigious Fudan University in China July 27, 2004
	Xilinx Receives Investment Grade Rating from Standard & Poor's July 22, 2004
	Xilinx was Top Ten Best Support Site Second Year in a Row July 21, 2004
	Xilinx Hosting 2004 Walk for AIDS Silicon Valley Reception Featuring World AIDS Progress Report by Dr. Mark Holodniy, AIDS Specialist July 20, 2004
	Xilinx Ships more than 1.5 Million Pb-Free and RoHs-Compliant Units July 19, 2004
	Xilinx Hosting 2004 Walk for AIDS Progress Report by Dr. Mark Holodnit, Stanford University July 15, 2004
	Xilinx Rated Number One in the Industry by FPGA Designers July 12, 2004
	Xilinx Announces the Addition of a Second Distributor in Israel June 23, 2004
	Xilinx Co-Founder Bernard "Bernie" Vonderschmitt Passes Away June 09, 2004
	Xilinx Acquires Hier Design, Brings Industry's Fastest, Most Robust Design Flow to FPGA Designers June 07, 2004
	Amdist Statewide Budget Cuts, Local School Excels Thanks to Corporate Benefactor May 26, 2004
	Xilinx Chief Information Officer to Receive a Tribute to Women in Industry Award from Santa Clara Valley WYCA May 03, 2004
	Xilinx Named Best Global Partner 2003 by ZTE Corporation in China April 28, 2004
	Xilinx Declares Quarterly Dividend and Extents Stock Repurchase Program April 22, 2004
	Xilins Demonstrates RapidlO Solutions at Smart Networks Developers Forum (SNDF) Americas 2004 April 21, 2004
	Xilinx Archives PLD Industry's First TL 9000 Registration, Enables Higher Quality FPGA Based Telecom Systems April 20, 2004
	Xilinx Japan Announces Distributor Agreement with Ryoyo Electro Corporation March 16, 2004
	Xilinx Expands Distribution Channel to India Through Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. March 09, 2004
	Xilinx to Demonstrate Latest CPLD Solutions at Wireless Systems Design Confeerence & Expo 2004 March 08, 2004
	Xilinx Reports Strong Revenue Growth in CPLD Business March 08, 2004
	Xilinx Announces Acquisition of Triscend Corp. March 08, 2004
	Xilinx Partners with CMC Limited to Establish Technology Development Centre in India February 25, 2004
	Xilinx Demonstrates Real-World Signal Processing Solutions at TI Developer Conference February 12, 2004
	Xilinx to Participate at Intel Developers Forum Spring 2004 February 12, 2004
	Xilinx Establishes Regional Headquarters in Singapore as it Expands Operations in Asia February 03, 2004
	Xilinx to Participate at DesignCon 2004 January 30, 2004
	A Banner Year for Xilinx - Company Earns Top Honors in 2003 for Management & Performance Excellence January 21, 2004
	A Banner Year for Xilinx - Company Earns Top Honors in 2003 for Management & Performance Excellence January 21, 2004
	Xilinx Reports Record Revenue for Virtex-II Series FPGAs January 21, 2004
	Xilinx Issues Product Advisory January 13, 2004
	Xilinx Ranked Among the Top in Future Magazine's Annual List of "100 Best Companies to Work For" for 40th Straight Year January 09, 2004

Event Related Announcements

Product Announcements

December

	Xilinx Ships More than 1.5 Million 90nm FPGAs Over 100 Times Nearest Competitor December 28, 2004
	Avnet Electronics Marketing Announces Immediate Availability of Xilinx ATCA Design Kit December 15, 2004
	Xilinx Enables Instant Development of Aurora industry's Most Popular, Scalable, Lightweight Serial Connectivity Protocol December 09, 2004
	Xilinx Ships World's Largest FPGA Device December 09, 2004

November

	Xilinx UnveilsNew CoolRunner-II CPLDs for Price-Sensitive Small Form-Factor Applications November 08, 2004
	TI and Xilinx Provide Easisest-To-Use Interface Solution Between High-Speed Data Converters and FPGAs November 01, 2004
	Xilinx and ISR Technologies Demonstrate World's First Software-Defined Radio Using Partial Reconfiguration of FPGAs November 01, 2004

October

	Xilinx Releases Planahead v2.1 Tool with Up to 89% Increase in Clock Frequency for Virtex Series FPGAs October 28, 2004
	Xilinx Accelerates Virtex-4 Designs with Full Featured Evaluation Platform at $495 October 26, 2004
	Xilinx Teams with Ansoft for Faster and Easier High-Speed Printed Circuit Board and Backplane Design October 25, 2004
	Xilinx and Dr. Howard Johnson Launch Unique DVD Tutorials Easing High-Speed Serial Signal Integrity Challenges October 25, 2004
	Xilinx Enables Next Generation Sonet/SDH Networks with Industry's First Parameterizable OC-192 Generic Framing Procedure Solution October 19, 2004
	New Line of Automotive Devices Strengthens Xilinx Leadership Position October 18, 2004

September

	Xilinx and Mercury Computer Systems Demonstrate Interoperable Serial RapidIO Solutions on an ATCA Platform September 28, 2004
	Xilinx RapidIO Solution Successfully Interoperates with Freescale PowerQUICC III Processor & Tundra RapidIO Switch September 28, 2004
	Xilinx Delivers Breakthrough Design Tool for High Performance Signal Processing with New System Generator for DSP v6.3I September 28, 2004
	Xilinx Ships One Million Spartan-3 FPGAs Delivers PLD Industry's First 90nm Family in High Volume September 21, 2004
	Xilinx Simplifies Embedded Processing Design with New 6.3i Platform Studio September 20, 2004
	Philips and Xilinx Collaborate in Design of Low Cost PCI Express Solutions September 20, 2004
	Xilinx Ships ISE 6.3i Design Suite, Widens Performance Lead Up to 40% with Virtex-4 FPGAs September 13, 2004
	Xilinx Ramps Virtex-4 Shipments, Delivers Breakthrough Performance at the Lowest Cost September 13, 2004
	Xilinx and Sandia Natrional Labs Team to Drive Reconfigurable Logic Technology into Space September 08, 2004

August

	Xilinx Ships 90-Nanometer Devices in Volume Production Addresses Record Demand for its Low Cost Spartan-3 FPGAs August 30, 2004
	Xilinx Ranks #1 in FPGA Embedded Solutions August 10, 2004

July

	Xilinx Delivers the Industry's Fastest High Speed Serial Tranceivers July 19, 2004
	Xilinx Launches Roadmap for Up to Two Third Power Reduction in Spartan-3 FPGAs July 01, 2004

June

	Xilinx Delivers Lowest Cost, Easy-to-use $99 Spartan-3 FPGA Starter Kit June 29, 2004
	Raytheon Chooses Xilinx to Develop Enhanced Wireless Networking System June 28, 2004
	Xilinx Delivers Virtex-4 FPGAs June 28, 2004
	Xilinx Shatters 2.4 Terabit PICMG 3.0 Bandwidth Barrier by Demonstrating 10Gbps Serial Signaling Over ATCA Backplane June 22, 2004
	Xilinx Extends Aurora Serial Connectivity Protocol for 10 Gigabits per Second Links & Beyond June 22, 2004
	Xilinx Broadens Presence in Storage Area Network Market with 1 & 2 Gbps Fibre Channel Solution June 22, 2004
	Xilinx Announces CPLD Logic Consolidator Ananlysis Tool June 22, 2004
	Xilinx Spartan Series Exceeds Three-Quarters of One Billion Dollars in Sales June 17, 2004
	Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs Enable Pandora's Newest 3-D Colour Cube June 15, 2004
	Xilinx and UMC Develop Industry's First FPGAs to Utilize Triple-oxide 90nm Technology June 14, 2004
	Virtex-4 Architecture Press Kits June 07, 2004
	Xilinx Ships New Release of System Generator for DSP Development Tool with Full Support for Latest MatLab & Simulink Software June 02, 2004
	Xilinx and Amirix Announce MultiBERT Reference Design for Serial Backplane Validation June 01, 2004

May

	Xilinx Simplifies QDR II SRAM Memory Interfacing with New Virtex-II PRO Memory Tool Kit May 25, 2004
	Xilinx FPGA Processor Solutions Deliver Order of Magnitude Advantage for Embedded Systems Designers May 18, 2004
	Xilinx Completes Successful UNH Interoperability Testing for Ethernet Solutions Suite with Virtex-II Series FPGAs May 10, 2004
	Xilinx Launches New Era of Digital Design in Aerospace and Defense with Introduction of QPRO Virtex-II Family May 10, 2004

April

	Xilinx Announces Free Configurable PCS Reference Design for Use with Virtex-II Pro Platform FPGAs April 29, 2004
	Xilinx Ships Industry's Only Complete RapidIO Solution for Virtex-II Pro Series FPGAs April 26, 2004
	Lucent Technologies Chooses Xilinx Virtex-II Pro with Embedded IBM PowerPC as Solution for its Optical Translator Unit April 26, 2004
	Xilinx FPGAs with Microblaze Processor Deliver 50% Speed Advantage Over Nearest Competitor April 21, 2004
	Xilinx Extends High-Speed Connectivity Leadership with RocketIO Design Services April 05, 2004

March

	Xilinx Publishes Digital Consumer Technology Handbook March 30, 2004
	Xilinx Embedded Development Kit 6.2i Slashes Development Time from Weeks to Days for MicroBlaze & PowerPC Designs March 30, 2004
	Xilinx Chips Enable electronicaUSA/ESC Best of Show Finalist in Sensio's 3D Wireless Home Theater System March 29, 2004
	Xilinx Announces Proven Interoperability Between Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs and Intel IXP 2800 Network Processor March 11, 2004
	Xilinx Announces Release of Free ISE WebPACK 6.2i Delivering up to 50% Faster Spartan-3 Design Performance March 09, 2004
	Xilinx Simplifies High-Speed DDR-I Memory Interfacing with New Tirn-Key Design Kit March 09, 2004
	Xilinx VirtexII Power Performance Wins Confidence of Barco for Air Traffic Control Component March 08, 2004
	Xilinx Reports Broad Adoption of Virtex-II Pro IBM PowerPC Solution March 08, 2004
	Xilinx Introduces Second-Generation CPLD Design Kit March 08, 2004
	Xilinx Enables Next Generation Networking & Telecom Systems by Delivering Traffic Management Solutions March 01, 2004
	Revolutionary FPGA Real-Time Logic Debug technology from Xilinx Slashes Verification Times by up to 50% March 01, 2004

February

	New Xilinx ISE 6.2i Software Combined with Virtex-II pro Devices February 23, 2004
	Avnet and Xilinx Team to Deliver and Support Comprehensive ATCA Development Platform February 17, 2004
	Xilinx Ships World's First Advanced Switching Solution Based on PCI Express Architecture February 17, 2004
	Xilinx Unveils End to End Programmable Solutions for the Entire line Card to the Backplane February 17, 2004
	LG Electronics Showcases New Xilinx-Enabled Products at Recent 2004 CES February 17, 2004
	Optos Uses Xilinx Design Services to Develop Revolutionary Eye Care System on Virtex-II Pro Device February 17, 2004
	Apache and Xilinx Unveil Unique Signal Integrity Analysis Tool for Virtex-II Pro Based Multi-Gigabit Serial I/O Designs February 11, 2004
	Xilinx Delivers Industry's Largest Industrial Grade Devices February 03, 2004
	Variable-Input Lookup Table Architecture and Superior Software Tools Make Xilinx Virtex-II Pro the Fastest Available FPGA February 03, 2004
	Winchester Electronics, Interconnect Technologies, and Xilinx Demonstrate World's First 10Gbps NRZ Backplane Reference Design February 01, 2004
	Winchester Electronics , Interconnect Technologies, and Xilinx Demonstrate World's First 10Gbps NRZ Backplane Reference Design February 01, 2004

January

	Xilinx Chips Land on Mars January 22, 2004
	Xilinx, Plextek and Intrinsyc Enables CES Debut of Gametrac Latest Mobile Entertainment Device From Tiger Telematics January 08, 2004
	Xilinx Chips Help Bring 3D to Home Theaters in Sensio's Award Winning 3D Wireless System January 08, 2004
	Gibson Chooses Xilinx As Chip Supplier of Choice at 2004 Consumer Electronics Show January 08, 2004