Low Cost Programmable Spartan Series Chips Enable the Gibson MaGIC Digital
Guitar - Industry's First Electric Guitar to Deliver True Digital Sound
SAN FRANCISCO, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX), today
announced that the Xilinx enabled Gibson MaGIC Digital Guitar has been
selected as a finalist for the Best of Show award at the Embedded Systems
Conference San Francisco, to be held April 22-26 -- at the Moscone Convention
Center. With more than 11,500 attendees and over 300 exhibitors anticipated,
the Embedded Systems Conference is renown for showcasing the most innovative
technological breakthroughs in embedded electronics design. The Xilinx enabled
guitar will be on display in Xilinx booth #1813 April 23 - 26, 2003.
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Gibson's internally derived MaGIC digital transfer protocol converts
traditional analog output from the guitar into a digital signal, providing
real time high-fidelity digital audio to benefit both production and live
performances. Gibson credits Xilinx's reprogrammable Spartan-IIE FPGAs as an
enabling critical component in its groundbreaking guitar. Gibson is among a
growing number of consumer product manufacturers to realize the competitive
advantage afforded by Xilinx's low-cost programmable chips, versus traditional
ASIC technology.
A prestigious panel of judges, including Lindsey Vereen, editorial
director, Embedded Systems Programming, Jim Turley, microprocessor analyst and
editor of Silicon-Insider, Daya Nadamuni, principal analyst, Gartner
Dataquest, Larry Mittag, contributing editor, Embedded Systems Programming,
and Bernie Cole, managing editor, EE Times selected the finalists from a total
of 30 entries, all featuring embedded technology in end-user applications. The
Best of Show winner will be announced at booth 238 at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday,
April 23. For more information about each finalist and to view a complete list
of all 30 entries, please visit http://www.embedded.com/esc.
About Xilinx Spartan Series FPGAs
Marking a major milestone in the semiconductor industry, Xilinx recently
unveiled its new line of 90nm Spartan(R) solutions -- the Spartan-3 platform.
Ranging from 50K to 5M system gates, the Spartan-3 platform is the world's
lowest cost FPGA with unrivaled price points. The Spartan-3 platform builds
upon the proven success of over four generations of Spartan Series solutions.
Since its 1998 introduction, the company has shipped more than 50 million
Spartan Series devices. Spartan Series products have been broadly adopted in
high-volume, high-growth consumer applications -- the most difficult
high-volume market to penetrate and one historically dominated by ASICs.
About Xilinx
Xilinx, Inc. is the worldwide leader of programmable logic solutions.
Additional information about Xilinx is available at http://www.xilinx.com.
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