Xylon rolls out IP support for XILINX'S new SPARTAN-3 platform - the world's lowest-cost FPGA

Zagreb, Croatia, April 15, 2003 - Xylon d.o.o., an FPGA-oriented design house, today announced that is has joined the fast growing ranks of IP providers who now support Spartan-3 platform FPGAs from Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), announced April 14, 2003. Xylon offers the logicBRICKSTM branded IP cores for use in human interface and industrial control applications. Xylon is a member of the Xilinx AllianceCORETM 3rd-party IP program as well as a founding member of the Common License Consortium which conceived the SignOnce IP License, the industry's first multi-vendor common license agreement for FPGA-based IP (www.xilinx.com/ipcenter/signonce.htm).

"We see the introduction of the Spartan-3 platform as a significant milestone for the FPGA industry," said Davor Kovacec, CEO from Xylon. "For the first time, FPGA users have access to 1M gates for under $20, throwing the doors wide open for designers to use more of our IP in high-volume applications."

"Xylon's focus on the industrial applications marketplace fills a strategic gap in our AllianceCORE IP portfolio," said Mark Bowlby, AllianceCORE program manager at Xilinx. "Spartan-3 significantly drops the total solution cost for our customers using their cores in programmable logic, making their top-shelf IP products even more compelling."

Spartan-3 cores are available for purchase directly from Xylon today under terms of the SignOnce IP License. Contact Xylon directly for more information, or visit their website at www.logicbricks.com.

Spartan-3 Platform FPGAs
Ranging from 50K to 5M system gates, the 90nm Spartan-3 platform is the world's lowest-cost FPGA with unrivaled price points to address customer demand for low-cost solutions. With Spartan-3, Xilinx is poised to address entirely new high-volume applications in the "sweet spot" of mid-range ASICs - such as low cost routers, storage servers, medical and industrial imaging, and residential gateways - to significantly expand the total available market for the Spartan Series. For complete information about Spartan-3 FPGAs, visit http://www.xilinx.com/spartan3/.

About Xylon
Xylon is an electronic company focused on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) design development, established in 1995 and based in Zagreb, Croatia, Xylon offers a comprehensive IP cores library named logicBRICKSTM. The logicBRICKS are optimized to suit Xilinx FPGA architectures. Xylon's expertise in the field of Man Machine Interfaces (MMI) and Industrial Communication Controllers is confirmed through a large number of successful designs, produced by our partners and distributed worldwide. All Xylon IP cores are exhaustively tested to ensure that they can be easily implemented and integrated into customer designs. More information can be found at www.logicbricks.com, an official Xylon web site.