Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGAs Named Most Popular Digital IC Product of the Year in Prestigious 2011 EE Times ACE Awards

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that its 28nm Virtex®-7 FPGA family was named the Most Popular Digital IC Product of the Year in UBM Electronics' EE Times Seventh Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards (www.eetimes-ace.com).

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The EE Times Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards celebrates the creators of technology who demonstrate leadership and innovation in the global industry and shape the world we live in. Awards were presented last week during the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley in 15 categories and judged by the editors and a blue-ribbon panel of industry experts, comprised of the leading voices of academia, industry and Wall Street executives.

The Virtex-7 FPGA family combines the advanced 28nm high performance, low power process, innovative stacked silicon interconnect technology, and industry's most advanced serial technology supporting up to 28 Gbps to deliver 2x higher system performance and 50 percent lower power consumption than previous generation FPGAs.  Xilinx's next-generation Virtex-7 family has set a new industry benchmark in capacity, delivering up to 2 million logic cells, 64Mbits of internal memory, 4.5 Tera-MACS DSP performance, 2.8 Tb/s serial bandwidth, and fully integrated Agile Mixed Signal capability.

"The 2011 winners, whose age, education and background cover a remarkable range, are the essence of creativity that offers promise for America's technology future. This exceptional group is a cross-section of engineering talent that reaches from Irwin Mark Jacobs, co-founder and former chairman of Qualcomm to four inventive students from Sparta High School in Wisconsin.  Of course, with this year's ACE Awards we also celebrate electronics companies for breakthrough products most popular among EE Times readers.  They include Virtex-7 from Xilinx, the world's leading provider of programmable platforms and inventor of the FPGA," said EE Times Editor-in-Chief Junko Yoshida.

"We're honored to be counted among the world's leading innovators in this year's ACE Awards," said Vin Ratford, Xilinx Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development. "It's especially gratifying that our 28nm Virtex-7 has been recognized as the most popular digital IC of the year, given the growing importance of FPGAs in today's electronics industry vis-a-vis traditional ASIC/ASSPs – and the pivotal role of programmable platforms in next-generation system design. With our 7 series FPGAs, designers can drastically reduce time-to-market and respond quickly to evolving market conditions, requirements and standards."

Optimized for advanced systems requiring the combination of the industry's highest logic capacity, highest performance, and highest connectivity bandwidth, Virtex-7 FPGAs are ideally suited to current and next-generation wired communication equipment, broadcast transmission and processing infrastructure equipment, aerospace and defense systems, next-generation high-performance compute platforms, as well as ASIC prototyping and emulation.

The Virtex-7 family consists of T, XT and HT devices to meet different market requirements:

• Virtex-7 T devices offer 12.5Gb/s serial connectivity, greatest parallel I/O bandwidth, and ultra high-end logic capacity
• Virtex-7 XT devices offer extended capabilities including 13.1Gb/s serial connectivity, higher DSP-to-logic ratio, and higher block RAM-to-logic cell ratios
• Virtex-7 HT devices combine 28Gb/s and 13.1Gb/s serial connectivity to enable the world's first single-FPGA solution for 400G communications line cards

The Virtex-7 FPGA family is available in EasyPath™-7 devices, offering a conversion-free path to volume production.

Unified Architecture Enables Scalability and Increases Productivity

Fabricated on a high-performance, low-power (HPL) 28nm process, all Xilinx 7 series FPGAs share a unified architecture. This innovation enables design migration across the Artix™-7, Kintex™-7, and Virtex-7 families. System manufacturers can easily scale successful designs to address adjacent markets requiring reduced cost and power or increased performance and capability. The adoption of AMBA 4, AXI4 specification as part of the interconnect strategy supporting Plug-and-Play FPGA design further improves productivity with IP reuse, portability, and predictability.

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