CELOXICA AND XILINX DELIVER NEXT GENERATION SYSTEM DESIGN TOOLS FOR VIRTEX-II PRO POWER PC AND MICROBLAZE USERS

Custom version of the Celoxica DK Design Suite to ship with Xilinx ISE Embedded Developers Kit v6.1

ABINGDON, Oxfordshire, UK (PRWEB) October 1, 2003 - Celoxica and Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that a custom edition of the Celoxica DK Design Suite will be included with the recently announced Xilinx ISE Embedded Development Kit v6.1 (EDK), expected to ship in October 2003 to registered EDK customers.

The joint product delivery is the latest result of a strategic agreement between Celoxica and Xilinx. This agreement has resulted in the delivery of a C-based co-design solution to developers of embedded solutions in high-density FPGA products. The combination of Xilinx and Celoxica system-design software offers the most productive hardware/software (HW/SW) co-design environment and a direct route from C-based descriptions to high-performance platform FPGA implementation.

The DK Design Suite enables HW/SW partitioning and co-verification and includes a cycle-accurate simulator. It supports the Xilinx MicroBlaze 32-bit soft processor core and the IBM Power PC® processor combined in the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA. The DK Design Suite performs synthesis from C code and targets all Xilinx FPGAs, including the Xilinx Spartan-3 family of low-cost devices. Using Celoxicas best-in-class compilation technology, the tools generate device-optimised EDIF netlists or style-optimised VHDL or Verilog. Co-simulation support is also available for RTL simulators.

The DK Design Suite allows designers to quickly explore what-if scenarios of architectural decisions, verify the HW/SW tradeoffs of their embedded application in a Xilinx FPGA, and immediately realise that implementation in silicon," said Jeff Jussel, vice president of marketing at Celoxica. This capability improves the overall area efficiency and performance of the design. The combination of these tools with the Xilinx EDK couples the advantages of pre-optimised IP with the fastest route to custom-design IP while simultaneously slashing design times and optimising product performance and differentiation."

The partnership with Celoxica and the combined EDK and DK Design Suite flow has delivered unique capabilities to our customers resulting in a faster time-to-market solution with lower development costs," said Jerry Banks, director of Global Alliances at Xilinx. The inclusion of processor technology in products such as Virtex-II Pro FPGAs not only offers unrivalled levels of performance, flexibility and cost, but also presents new design considerations for FPGA users."

To learn more about Xilinx embedded processor solutions, visit: www.xilinx.com/processor.

Pricing and Availability
Individual user licenses are available free-of-charge on a 30-day trial basis from Celoxica. Designers may purchase perpetual licenses of this custom edition from Celoxica starting at $12, 000.

About Celoxica
An innovator in system-level electronic design automation (EDA), Celoxica is the technology leader in Software-Compiled System Design, a process that accelerates design productivity by using high-level languages to directly drive design verification and implementation of hardware and software through a platform-based design methodology. By providing a proven route to hardware design using software techniques, Celoxicas solutions redefine hardware and software partitioning to enable the use of reprogrammable logic devices in the development of electronics and reconfigurable systems. For more information, visit: www.celoxica.com.

About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions. For more information, visit: www.xilinx.com.
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For more information, contact:
Jeff Jussel, Celoxica Limited, +44 (0) 1235 863656, jeff.jussel@celoxica.com

Allan Edwards, Neesham Public Relations, +44 (0) 1442 879222, allane@neesham.co.uk

Amy Attard, Xilinx, Inc., +1 408 626 5967, amy.attard@xilinx.com