Celoxica, Wind River and Xilinx Host Seminar Tour Presenting New Techniques for Reconfigurable Computing.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 2, 2001

Celoxica Inc. has announced that it is co-sponsoring a seminar series with Wind River Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND) and Xilinx Inc. (Nasdaq:XLNX). Running throughout North America during 2001, the tour presents new ideas and cost-effective solutions for improving the flexibility and performance of embedded systems. The tour consists of 14, free half-day seminars held at locations throughout California, Texas, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., North Carolina and Canada.

Aimed at design engineers interested in building embedded systems that are faster and more flexible, the seminars introduce new solutions for hardware acceleration that are easy to adopt and use, complementing existing skills and methodologies.

"Reconfigurable devices will be a feature of every electronics product within the next 10 years," said Jon Treanor, president and CEO, Celoxica Limited. "A steady stream of new, high-end devices such as 10 million-gate FPGAs will drive more aggressive price/performance ratios at the lower-end of market. Already, we are seeing 200,000-gate Spartan II's from Xilinx shipping at prices that free more customers to leverage FPGAs in greater volumes. This, combined with opportunities for exploiting these devices in new ways, suggests that the market is about to hit a period of very steep growth. We are presenting the next stage in the evolution of the FPGA to those design engineers who know that today's performance ceilings cannot be raised indefinitely without a new approach."

The seminar tour will present ideas for accelerating compute-intensive tasks in embedded systems using parallel hardware that can be reconfigured by a CPU in a fraction of a second. The events feature demonstrations and unveilings of products that introduce:

          --  software paradigms to FPGA design for faster development
            cycles that free more time for iterative refinement

          --  new technologies for closely coupling FPGAs to real-time
            operating systems

          --  new APIs for managing the process of rapid hardware
            reconfiguration to assure quality of service for products
            in the field

          --  support packages for write once, run anywhere
            reconfigurable hardware design and embedded system
            development

To see a complete listing of sessions and locations, or to pre-register for one of the events, go to http://www.celoxica.com/news/events.htm.

      Tour dates

      The following tour dates have been confirmed:

      Dallas, Texas                       26 June 2001
      Marlborough (near Boston), Mass.    17 July 2001
      Chicago, Ill.                       26 July 2001
      Washington, D.C.                    14 August 2001
      Ottawa, Canada                      21 August 2001
      Triangle Park, N.C.                 23 August 2001

Dates are being planned for the following locations later in the year:

Sunnyvale, Calif.                      (two events)
Seattle, Wash.
Petaluma, Calif.
San Diego, Calif.
Santa Clara, Calif.

About Wind River

Wind River is a worldwide leader in embedded software and services for creating connected smart devices. Wind River provides software development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity for use in products throughout the Internet, telecommunications and data communications, digital imaging, digital consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals, automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is how smart things think. Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, Calif., with operations in sixteen countries worldwide. For more information, visit the Wind River web site at www.windriver.com.

About Xilinx

Xilinx is the leading innovator of complete programmable logic solutions, including advanced integrated circuits, software design tools, predefined system functions delivered as cores, and unparalleled field engineering support. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Xilinx invented the field programmable gate array (FPGA) and fulfils more than half of the world demand for these devices today. Xilinx solutions enable customers to reduce significantly the time required to develop products for the computer, peripheral, telecommunications, networking, industrial control, instrumentation, high-reliability/military, and consumer markets. For more information, visit the Xilinx web site at www.xilinx.com.

About Celoxica

Celoxica provides software products, development boards, IP cores and design services that enable design engineers to rapidly develop application logic for FPGAs and programmable logic devices. Celoxica's high-level approach leverages the world's first integrated development environment for true 'C' to hardware synthesis, supported by a range of development boards for rapid prototyping. By creating and leading the world of reconfigurable electronics, Celoxica is enabling customers to overcome costly development cycles and exploit ongoing revenue opportunities through hardware upgrade programs via the Internet.

Celoxica has alliances and partnerships with Ericsson Radio Systems AB, Infineon Technologies AG, Marconi plc, Matra Bae Dynamics France, Wind River Systems Inc. and Xilinx, Inc. The company employs over 100 people and is headquartered in Abingdon, UK, with additional offices in Campbell, Calif., USA; Yokahama, Japan; and Singapore.

For more information about Celoxica, visit www.celoxica.com or contact [e-mail]. For sales enquiries contact: Americas -- [e-mail]; APAC -- [e-mail]; Europe, Middle East, Africa -- [e-mail].

Note to Editors: Celoxica and the Celoxica logo are the trademarks of Celoxica Limited. Any other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

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