Xilinx Press Release #0756

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

XILINX VIRTEX-5 FPGAs SWEEP 17TH ANNUAL
EDN INNOVATION AWARDS

Industry’s first 65nm FPGAs win both Product and Innovator of the Year Awards

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 3, 2007 – At the Embedded Systems Conference today, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX), the world’s leading supplier of programmable solutions, announced that its Virtex™-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.

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 Feb1, 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™ technology and proven ASMBL™ 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® 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 www.xilinx.com/virtex5 for more information.

About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.

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Editorial Contacts:
Tamara Snowden
Xilinx, Inc. Public Relations
(408) 879-6146
tamara.snowden@xilinx.com