Industry's first 65nm FPGAs win both Product and Innovator of the Year
Awards
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 3 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Embedded Systems
Conference today, Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX), the world's leading supplier
of programmable solutions, announced that its Virtex(TM)-5 LXT family of
high- performance FPGAs won the Product of the Year award/Digital IC's
category in EDN Magazine's 17th Annual Innovation Award Competition. The
design team responsible for the development of the Virtex-5 family, the
industry's first 65nm FPGAs, also took home the top honor as Innovator of
the Year.
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Instituted in 1990, the Innovation Awards honor the people, products
and technologies that have shaped the semiconductor industry over the year.
Nominees for the Innovator of the Year category must have demonstrated
innovation that resulted in a significant advance in technology and/or
product development during the past 12 months. Key innovations by the
Xilinx Virtex-5 design team in process technology, architecture and product
development methodology led to unprecedented performance and density gains.
"The Virtex-5 design team not only took on the 65nm challenge -- an
impressive feat in and of itself -- but at the same time delivered a 35
percent reduction in power with its next-generation FPGA family," said
Maury Wright, EDN Worldwide Editorial Director. "Now that's innovation."
"We're thrilled to receive such a coveted award. The development of the
Virtex-5 family was truly a team effort with contributors throughout the
company, across the globe," added design team leaders Steve Douglass and
Suresh Menon, vice president(s) of Product Development at Xilinx. "It's
very gratifying to see the hard work of so many honored by the industry."
About the EDN Innovation Awards
The EDN Innovation program relies on a multitier selection process to
choose finalists and winners. Working in panels organized by area of
expertise, EDN's technical editors selected the finalists from a record
number of deserving entries received during the fall nomination period. EDN
published the list of finalists in the Feb. 1, 2007 print issue of EDN and
EDN.com. Throughout February, EDN's worldwide audience of electronics
engineers and engineering managers voted using an online ballot. A
combination of these reader votes, the votes of the EDN Editorial Advisory
Board, and the votes of EDN's editorial staff determined the winners of the
17th Annual EDN Innovation Awards.
About Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT FPGAs
Built upon the industry's most advanced 65nm triple-oxide technology,
breakthrough new ExpressFabric(TM) technology and proven ASMBL(TM)
architecture, the Virtex-5 family represents the fifth generation in the
award-winning Virtex product line. The Virtex-5 LXT platform is the first
FPGA to deliver a hard-coded PCI Express(R) Endpoint together with Tri-mode
Ethernet Media Access Controller (MAC) blocks and features the industry's
lowest power 65nm transceiver, typically consuming less than 100mW per
channel at 3.2 Gbps. Delivering the benefits of 65nm FPGAs since May 2006,
the company is now shipping 12 devices across three of the four platforms
(LX, LXT, SXT). Visit http://www.xilinx.com/virtex5 for more information.
About Xilinx
Xilinx, Inc. is the worldwide leader of programmable logic solutions.
For more information, visit http://www.xilinx.com.
Editorial Contacts:
Tamara Snowden
Xilinx, Inc. Public Relations
408-879-6146
tamara.snowden@xilinx.com
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