Celoxica Unveils DK1.1 With Virtex II Pro Support At Programmable World 2002.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ABINGDON, Oxfordshire, UK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2002

Celoxica Limited will publicly unveil DK1.1, the next version of its Handel-C-to-hardware design suite at Programmable World 2002 on 17 April 2002. Scheduled for launch on 25 March 2002, DK1.1 includes a range of new features for reprogrammable system-on-a-chip design and will include support for the new Virtex-II Pro(TM) family of FPGAs from Xilinx Inc.

"We are delighted to have been invited by Xilinx to demonstrate the capabilities of DK1.1 for Virtex-II Pro design," said Dennis Nye, senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Celoxica Limited. "The Virtex-II Pro family combines both fast PowerPC(TM) processors and high-performance I/O to deliver a hardware platform that suits a broad range of challenging applications in the communications design space. DK1.1 supports the Virtex-II Pro platform by providing new levels of hardware design efficiency. It also allows closer collaboration between hardware designers, software engineers and system architects in the allocation of hardware and software system resources; this is particularly relevant when exploring the potential for overcoming performance bottlenecks by accelerating sequential algorithms on parallel hardware."

About Programmable World

Programmable World 2002 will feature visionary presentations and technical training for reprogrammable systems-on-a-chip. The event will be simulcast live to over 18 cities across North America and Europe including Paris, Boston, San Jose, Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Columbia, Dallas, Long Island, Longmont, Los Angeles, Ottawa, Phoenix, Portland, Raleigh, San Diego, Seattle, Montreal and Toronto. Visit www.xilinx.com/pw2002/index.htm for information and registration.

About Virtex-II Pro

The Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA family is the world's first FPGA to immerse high performance IBM PowerPC processors in the Virtex-II fabric with multi-gigabit serial transceivers to solve high-performance architectural challenges. Using its patent-pending IP Immersion technology, Xilinx has integrated these two essential requirements for next-generation systems, RISC processing and high-speed serial technology, in the popular Virtex-II fabric, which includes the advanced Active Interconnect, BlockRAM, and clock management features. This unprecedented level of integration offers systems designers the highest level of performance with the lowest system cost available from any programmable solution. The use of behavioral synthesis technologies allows partitioning for optimal system performance during definition, during debug, and after product shipment. Designers can now get the performance they need without costly and time-consuming re-designs.

About Celoxica

Celoxica brings software methodologies to hardware design with tools that converge electronics design automation (EDA) and embedded software development (ESD) to improve designer productivity, address design skills shortages, and overcome system performance bottlenecks.

The company's design tools, and supporting products and services, introduce three aspects of software development to the hardware design process: a C-based language for rapidly describing the functionality rather than the underlying structural detail of the hardware; an integrated development environment (IDE) for hardware design with features such as symbolic debugging as well as synthesis that correlates to software compilation in that it is very fast; and libraries of predefined functions including access to peripherals and processors in hardware via common APIs.

Celoxica has alliances and partnerships with Altera Corporation, Avnet Design Services, Wind River Systems Inc. and Xilinx, Inc. The company is headquartered in Abingdon, UK, with additional offices in Campbell, California, USA; Yokohama, Japan; and Singapore.

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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