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Xilinx Reports Broad Adoption of
Virtex-II Pro IBM PowerPC Solution
Company gains significant traction in embedded market through record shipments
of Virtex-II Pro Platform FPGAs with embedded PowerPC processor

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 8, 2004 -- Xilinx, Inc., (NASDAQ: XLNX) today reported significant traction in the embedded market, driven by the broad adoption of the Xilinx® Virtex-II Pro™ Platform FPGA family with embedded IBM PowerPC® processors. Xilinx is the only company to offer a programmable logic device with integrated PowerPC embedded technology. Xilinx has shipped over 100,000 PowerPC cores to its customer base and enabled over 1,400 CoreConnect™ licenses.

“Acceptance of our immersed processor solution continues at an accelerated pace – particularly in the embedded market space. This is a direct result of our collaboration with IBM to integrate the PowerPC technology,” said Erich Goetting, vice president and general manager of the Advanced Products Group at Xilinx. “We plan to continue to work with IBM to integrate PowerPC processors into our next-generation Virtex FPGA family.”

“Today's announcement is another example of how the PowerPC processor is gaining increasingly broad accessibility,” said Kevin Carswell, vice president, semiconductor products and development, IBM Systems & Technology Group. “This is reflected in the large number of designers who have utilized the embedded PowerPC feature to build a host of embedded systems in a wide variety of applications.”

Xilinx reports significant traction specifically in applications such as broadband access, wireless and satellite communications, Voice over IP, video broadcast and display. For example, Barco, an international leader in imaging technology headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, utilized the Virtex-II Pro embedded PowerPC processor to enhance its high-resolution air traffic control LCD panel (see related announcement).

About Xilinx Virtex-II Pro Platform FPGAs and Embedded Solutions
Based on their industry-leading capacity, performance, and cost-effectiveness, Xilinx® Virtex FPGAs are the number one choice of designers worldwide. The Xilinx Virtex-II Pro is the world's first and only FPGA to offer integrated PowerPC embedded technology. Providing designers the ability to easily develop, integrate, and debug their entire embedded system, Xilinx offers a fully integrated hardware/software development environment, Platform Studio, included in the Xilinx Embedded Development Kit (EDK). The Xilinx embedded system solution is comprised of an extensive library of IP (over two hundred cores), application/reference designs, internal and third party provided tools, most widely used operating systems - including MontaVista Linux, Wind River VxWorks, QNX Neutrino and development boards. Further ensuring first-time design success with its Platform FPGAs, Xilinx provides a variety of embedded design services, training and support.

About Xilinx
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) is the worldwide leader of programmable logic solutions. Additional information about Xilinx is available at www.xilinx.com.

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