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Xilinx Delivers Faster Timing Closure In ISE 8.1i, Maximizing FPGA Performance Up To 70% Over Competing SolutionsNew ISE Fmax Technology provides enhanced physical synthesis capabilities for Virtex-4 and Spartan-3 architectures December 12, 2005, SAN JOSE, Calif. –Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX ) today announced the 8.1i release of its popular Integrated Software Environment (ISE™) design tool suite, which features the new ISE Fmax technology with enhanced physical synthesis capabilities to improve performance and timing closure for both the Virtex™-4 and Spartan™-3 architectures. Using ISE 8.1i software, designers can boost performance by an average of 10 to 37 percent as compared to previous ISE releases and up to 70 percent over competing solutions using Virtex-4 FPGAs. ISE 8.1i also delivers enhancements to the industry’s only partial reconfiguration technology, enabling lower cost, size and power consumption. Offering an average of a speed grade in cost savings from the previous ISE version, the new features are aimed at further strengthening Xilinx solutions for high-performance system design, including designs that feature embedded processing, digital signal processing (DSP) and advanced connectivity protocols. Through the use of advanced physical synthesis capabilities in the ISE tools, designers can maximize performance throughput, accelerate time to market, and reduce overall development costs. In addition, features such as ChipScope™ Pro 8.1i in-silicon debug integration and more robust partial reconfiguration support further drive down development time and system costs. “We are constantly working with designers to solve their key challenges - timing closure, cost and systems-design complexity. ISE 8.1i addresses these with advanced design compilation optimizations, delivering substantial automated Fmax improvements and offering intuitive new interface features,” said Bruce Talley, vice president of the Design Software Division at Xilinx. “Designers now have more certainty of meeting system performance, functionality and cost targets for their end products.” ISE Fmax Performance Technology Boosts Design Speeds by up to 70 Percent over Competition ISE Fmax technology is complementary to synthesis optimizations from Synplicity and Mentor Graphics. The combination of synthesis and ISE Fmax technologies enables users to meet stringent timing goals. “The new ISE 8.1i software in combination with the Synplify Pro synthesis products give Xilinx FPGA designers an advantage when pushing timing performance,” said Jeff Garrison, director of marketing for FPGA Products at Synplicity, Inc. “We continue to work closely with Xilinx to ensure that our newest technologies, such as our Graph-based physical synthesis recently introduced in our Synplify Premier product, interface with ISE software to deliver the fastest timing closure for the entire line of Xilinx FPGAs.” “The tight integration of Mentor Graphics advanced Precision Synthesis solution into the Xilinx ISE 8.1i release opens up the best features of both environments for our mutual customers,” said Simon Bloch, general manager, Design Creation and Synthesis Division, Mentor Graphics. “The customer-proven design analysis technology in Precision Synthesis, which delivers the right balance of automated/interactive optimizations and user control, now complements the industry-leading Xilinx Fmax Technology available in ISE 8.1i.” Industry’s Only Partial Reconfiguration Solution Ease of Use Improves Productivity ChipScope Pro 8.1i Voted #1 in user satisfaction by FPGA Journal subscribers, ISE delivers programmable logic design solutions to over 200,000 users worldwide with an intuitive, front-to-back design environment for all leading-edge Xilinx product families, including Virtex-4 FPGAs, Spartan-3 Generation FPGAs, and CoolRunner™-II CPLDs. All versions of ISE software packages support Windows® 2000 and Windows XP and Linux® Red Hat® Enterprise 3.0. ISE Foundation also supports Solaris® 2.8 and 2.9. ISE 8.1i configurations are immediately available with prices ranging from a free internet download version to the fully featured version priced at $2495. ChipScope Pro tools are available immediately for $695, or users can obtain a 60-day full featured evaluation version of the tool at no charge. ISE customers can obtain partial reconfiguration capability by contacting their local FAE. For more information about ISE 8.1i and the ChipScope Pro debug and verification solution, visit www.xilinx.com/ise or www.xilinx.com/chipscopepro/. About Xilinx
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