Xilinx PlanAhead Software Wins Prestigious DesignVision 2007 Award


Industry leading design planning and analysis tool recognized by IEC as most unique and beneficial to design community

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 30 /- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX), the world's leading supplier of programmable logic solutions today announced that its PlanAhead(TM) 8.2 design planning and analysis software has received the prestigious DesignCon 2007 DesignVision award in the category of "Structured/Platform ASIC, FPGA, and PLD Design Tools." The intuitive hierarchical design and analysis solution was selected among a record number of competing products and technologies by independent industry experts representing the International Engineering Consortium (IEC). This year's IEC Technical Program Committee, which consisted of 96 of the industry's top thought leaders, judged finalists based on innovation, uniqueness, market impact, customer benefits and value to society. The DesignVision Awards program recognizes new technologies, applications, products and services judged to be the most unique and beneficial to the industry.

IEC Executive Vice President Roger Plummer stated "Our DesignVision Awards honor those catalyzing positive change in high-technology, business, and academia, completely in line with the IEC's mission. We're pleased to give tribute to the innovators who have helped advance progress in electronic design."

Xilinx PlanAhead software extends the performance advantage of its high performance 65nm Virtex-5 platform FPGAs. Xilinx PlanAhead software streamlines the steps between synthesis and place-and-route to give designers more control and insight into how designs are implemented to achieve design targets with fewer design iterations. The tool allows designers to utilize a hierarchical design methodology to minimize routing congestion, simplify clocking and interconnect complexity, and explore implementation options. Xilinx PlanAhead software also enables significant savings in cost, size and power consumption by simplifying partial reconfiguration for Xilinx FPGAs. Customers can try PlanAhead by downloading a free 30-day evaluation at xilinx.com/planahead.

"It's a tremendous honor to win the DesignVision 2007 Award. This achievement validates the opinion of a rapidly growing number of Xilinx customers who are realizing the productivity and performance benefits enabled by our PlanAhead software," said Salil Raje, director of Design Planning and Verification at Xilinx. "PlanAhead software offers a unique solution, enabling logic designers to analyze placement and timing results in order to achieve the industry's fastest timing closure."

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