Xilinx Makes $1 Million Virtex-E FPGA Donation to Universities Through the Celoxica University Programme.

Business/High Tech Editors

ABINGDON, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2001

Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq:XLNX) has donated over $1 million worth of its Virtex-E XCV2000E field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to universities through the Celoxica University Programme.

The donation will allow more universities to leverage Celoxica's new DK1 design suite for rapid design and prototyping in flexible hardware at less cost.

Daryl RuDusky, vice president of marketing at Celoxica said, "DK1 is a high-level design environment targeting reconfigurable hardware that helps customers bring designs to market faster and cheaper than ever before. We believe our approach represents the way forward for electronics design and we are committed to investing in that future. The Celoxica University Programme is a clear demonstration of that commitment and Xilinx's donation tears down cost barriers for our university partners so that the impact of our technologies can be felt more widely."

Patrick Kane, University Program manager of Xilinx said, "Xilinx and Celoxica have an existing partnership born from the desire to foster and encourage innovation in the electronics industry. The foundation of this new partnership is a drive to raise the quality levels of training available to future IT engineers. At Xilinx we recognize the value of the Celoxica University Programme as an effective vehicle for achieving this and harnessing the skills of future recruits. We feel that introducing innovation at this level encourages its continuation once the engineers move into the working environment."

The Xilinx XCV2000E FPGAs will be mounted on Celoxica's RC1000-PP boards for rapidly prototyping new designs, such as the 32-bit Logarithmic ALU prototyped by The Academy of Science of the Czech Republic.

Dr. Jiri Kadlec of the Czech Institute said, "The high cost of tooling can be prohibitive for universities. But it is important for us to keep abreast of innovative technologies. Celoxica makes the rapid design of application logic for flexible hardware a possibility for both hardware and software engineers. It could have a big impact on the industry in the future. The reduced cost of the boards means that our students can benefit from this technology today."

The Celoxica University Programme was established in January 1999 to build awareness of Celoxica's Handel-C programming language and its C-to hardware design methodology on course curriculums as well as to provide commercial assistance to universities designing their own intellectual property (IP). At the outset Xilinx donated 63 Virtex XCV 1000-6 parts. This latest donation makes ten times more chips available. Projects that have benefited from the Celoxica /Xilinx partnership include research into dynamic reconfiguration, neural networks, system-on-a-chip design, and image and communications processing, across 50 international universities.

Wayne Luk of Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine London said, "We get a lot out of the scheme. Last year one of our students used the technology to win the national Best Project '99 Award. We are delighted that we will be able to receive ongoing support from both Celoxica and Xilinx with the added benefit of a bigger device."

The winner of the national Best Project '99 Award designed a flexible real-time Graphics engine in Handel-C and prototyped the design on a Celoxica RC1000PP development board-- a high performance PCI plug-in card with state of the art programmable chip and high speed memory.

The Xilinx Virtex-E XCV2000E is from the Virtex Series of Field Programmable Gate Arrays, the fastest growing programmable logic architecture in history. The Virtex architecture was designed in conjunction with Xilinx's synthesis partners in order to assure maximum performance, predictability, and simplified integration of intellectual property. The Virtex E's success is due to the enormous acceptance by design engineers and systems architects who find the range of densities and robust features coupled with high performance offer the best platform for system development.

Availability

Celoxica development boards featuring the Virtex-E XVC2000E are available today. Donation supplies commence Q2 2001. Interested universities should contact Roger Gook at Celoxica at [e-mail].

About Xilinx

Xilinx, Inc. is the leading innovator of complete programmable logic solutions. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Xilinx invented the FPGA and commands more than half of the world market for these devices today. 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 software engineers to rapidly design application logic for FPGAs and programmable logic devices. Celoxica's system-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 London, UK; Campbell and Scotts Valley, California, USA; Yokahama, Japan; and Singapore.

For more information about Celoxica, visit www.celoxica.com.

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