Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs, ISE 10.1 Design Suite and the XtremeDSP Video Starter Kit Selected from Hundreds of Products in 19th Annual Awards Program

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced that Xilinx(R) Virtex(R)-5 FXT FPGAs, Version 10.1 of the Xilinx ISE(R) Design Suite and the XtremeDSP(TM) Solutions Video Starter Kit (VSK) for Spartan(R)-3A DSP FPGAs have been selected from hundreds of products as finalists in this year's EDN Innovation Awards. The products have been recognized for their innovative architecture, in addition to their ability to tackle tough design challenges and to deliver superior price/performance value.

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"We're delighted to be included among such a stellar list of finalists in multiple categories for this year's competition," said Mustafa Veziroglu, vice president for Xilinx product and solutions management. "Technology innovation has been a hallmark of our company through multiple generations of silicon, software and IP development. This honor is especially fitting as we celebrate our 25th anniversary and enter a new era of electronics in which programmability has become an imperative."

The EDN Innovation Awards program features 28 categories ranging from Innovator of the Year to best contributed article. Nominees must have demonstrated innovation that resulted in a significant advance in technology and/or product development during the past 12 months. During the month of February, EDN's worldwide audience of electronic engineers and engineering managers will use an online ballot to select winners in each category. The public is encouraged to visit www.EDN.com/innovation19 to review the nominees and vote. Winners will be announced at a dinner and awards ceremony in San Jose, California on March 30, 2009.

The Virtex-5 FXT FPGA platform leverages the Xilinx ASMBL(TM) architecture to enable fully programmable system-on-chip (SOC) solutions. This innovative architecture integrates key system building blocks - single/dual processors, highly configurable DSP elements, high-speed serial transceivers, on-chip memory and connectivity IP - with the highest performance of any reconfigurable SOC in production today.

Version 10.1 of the Xilinx ISE(R) Design Suite directly addresses the most demanding challenges facing designers of advanced FPGAs: the need for performance, productivity and predictability delivered in a unified design environment. ISE 10.1 provides a cohesive solution that unites the needs of logic, embedded and DSP designers and delivers significantly faster implementations (with an average of 2X faster run-times), allowing more turns per day.

The XtremeDSP Solutions VSK for Spartan-3A DSP FPGAs is a comprehensive platform that accelerates the development of video applications on Xilinx FPGAs. Designed to leverage the cost/performance advantages of Spartan-3A DSP FPGAs, the latest version of the kit offers an updated set of video reference designs, based on an embedded design framework, that allow customers to focus on their unique value added development.

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