Provide the industry's highest bandwidth systems with the high-end Virtex-7 FPGA and meet demanding cost/power requirements with the Kintex-7 FPGA.

Xilinx Korea (Country Manager Ahn Heung-sik) October 28, 2011 – Xilinx announced that its new 7 Series FPGA devices, which began shipping this past March, have earned over 200 awards in just six months, solidifying its position as the undisputed leader in the industry. To date, Xilinx has sold thousands of Virtex®-7 and KINTEX™-7 FPGAs worldwide, which are currently being used in a wide range of applications, from high-performance defense RADAR systems and next-generation 200G wired communication bridges to ultra-high-resolution medical imaging equipment and state-of-the-art test and measurement equipment.

Through the formidable combination of market-leading devices and an integrated 28nm architecture, Xilinx has been able to launch products faster than any other company in the PLD industry. In addition to providing customers with 28nm technology at industry-leading speeds, Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs optimally combine logic, DSP, and high-speed serial channels to deliver peak performance while meeting common requirements such as low power.

Jordan Selburn, Senior Analyst at market research firm iSupplies, stated, “The PLD industry will outpace the semiconductor market growth as customer demand for applications previously held in the ASIC domain increases,” adding, “With each new node, PLDs can handle more design sockets across a diverse range of expanding end applications.” "By launching 28nm ahead of most ASIC and ASP competitors in March 2011, PLD suppliers led by Xilinx can gain significant benefits from this accelerating trend, and the related industry is predicted to record a growth rate that surpasses the overall semiconductor industry," he said.

Jason Chen, TSMC’s Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, said, “We are pleased to help Xilinx achieve these results. Through this collaboration, we are combining Xilinx’s design expertise with TSMC’s latest technology platforms to deliver the best value to our customers. We believe this tremendous synergy will benefit both Xilinx and its customers.”

Xilinx is supplying the highest bandwidth systems with the Virtex-7 FPGA and meeting the demanding cost and power requirements of various applications in the fastest-growing sector of the FPGA market with the Kintex-7 FPGA. The Artix™-7 FPGA, the final product in the 7 Series family, is scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2012.

John Beck, Senior Engineer at NDS Surgical Imaging, a leader in medical imaging technology innovation, stated, “Since participating in the first Vertex development program about 12 years ago, our R&D team has relied on Xilinx FPGAs for designing high-resolution medical displays for diagnostic radiology.” He added, “The KINTEX-7, which satisfies price, performance, and low power consumption, is the optimal choice for the Dom S10 10-megapixel medical display for mammography.” “We have integrated two full DisplayPort interfaces and IP developed by Xilinx to leverage all the advantages of the KINTEX-7 to provide image viewing without compromising on functional limitations, enabling us to meet the demands of the radiation environment as well as the requirements for flawless diagnostic quality,” he said.

Xilinx is leading various industrial sectors by meeting today's market requirements with its Class 3 28nm FPGA devices. To significantly reduce power consumption, Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs are manufactured using TSMC's 28nm HPL (High Performance/Low Power) process. To increase customer productivity and reduce development time, 7-Series FPGAs are built using a scalable integrated architecture that enables easy migration of 28nm designs across product families. Finally, to meet customer demands for a drastic reduction in capacity and system bandwidth, Xilinx has sought to provide the 2M logic cell Virtex-7 2000T FPGA, the world's largest FPGA to date, pushing the boundaries by utilizing 2.5D Stacked Silicon Interconnect (SSI) technology.

About Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs
Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs are the only integrated FPGA architecture that is scalable between the industry's lowest power consumption and affordable ultra-high performance product families. Through an architecture shared across the 7 Series device family, engineers can easily scale Kintex-7 FPGA-based designs to the smallest Artix-7 FPGA, and to the largest Virtex-7 FPGA, which can support designs using a record 2 million logic cells.

All four Xilinx 28nm product families (ARTIX-7 FPGA, KINTEX-7 FPGA, VERTHEX-7 FPGA, and Zynq™-7000 EPP (Extensible Processing Platform)) are built using TSMC's 28nm high performance/low power (HPL) process. HPL, a High-K Metal Gate (HKMG), is optimized for FPGAs and provides the highest performance along with the lowest total power consumption. (For more information on the Xilinx 7 Series product family of FPGA devices and the Xilinx 28nm target design platform, please refer to http://www.xilinx.com/innovation/7-series-fpgas.htm )

The Artix-7 FPGA provides the lowest power and lowest cost to meet high-demand markets. This product family is one of three built on a standard 28nm architecture designed for maximum power efficiency, offering logic with up to 350K logic cell densities, more than double the capacity, 30% higher performance, 50% lower power consumption, and a lower price than the Spartan®-6 FPGA. Equipped with memory and transceivers, the Artix-7 family is becoming the new standard for high-speed interfaces and optimal cost. The Artix-7 FPGA further reduces system costs through a package with the best space efficiency and utilizes wire-bonded chip-scale BGA technology.

Xilinx's award-winning KINTEX-7 FPGA family represents a new realm of programmable devices and delivers top performance at less than half the price of previous 40nm FPGA devices. The KINTEX-7 FPGA consumes more than 50% less power than previous generation devices while improving price-performance by more than twofold, and can meet the demanding cost and power requirements of applications ranging from high-resolution 3D flat panel displays and portable ultrasonic monitors to broadcast video-on-demand systems and wireless base stations.

The Virtex-7 family, offering the best-in-class 7 Series device family, elevates the industry's most successful FPGA architecture to a new level by consuming 50% less power than the previous generation, as well as delivering twice the system capacity and 30% faster system performance. Virtex-7 FPGAs address a wide range of high-bandwidth applications, providing the highest throughput for wired communications, the highest signal processing capabilities for advanced wireless baseband processing systems, very high digital signal performance for aerospace and defense infrastructure systems, and scalable, flexible, and low-latency performance for broadcast systems. The 7 Series family utilizes stacked silicon interconnect technology to deploy the Virtex-7 2000T device, the world's highest-density 2-million-logic-cell FPGA. Each 7 Series device