Source: PRNewswire
Jun 13, 2008

Xilinx at Bits & Chips Hardware Conference 2008

What: Bits & Chips Hardware Conference 2008

Where: Evoluon, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Silica Booth # 2.03

When: June 19, 2008

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced its participation at the Bits & Chips Hardware Conference 2008 on June 19, 2008 in Eindhoven. Conference attendees are invited to attend a keynote by Xilinx CTO Ivo Bolsens on the future of FPGAs, as well as see demonstrations of its industry-leading programmable technologies including the recently announced Virtex-5 FXT platform optimized for embedded processing, serial-connectivity and DSP applications.

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Keynote Address

FPGA: The future platform for transforming, transporting and computing

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Speaker: Ivo Bolsens, CTO, Xilinx

Abstract: As the use of FPGAs in hardware design rapidly increase, the use
of these flexible platforms become more pervasive in markets
such as automotive, consumer electronics, industrial and medical.
Bolsens will discuss the direction for FPGAs as they evolve to
solve the challenges for transforming and transporting computing.
He will describe the design methodologies, power consumption and
memory performance required in hardware design.

Demonstrations: Silica Stand # 2.03

-- Spartan-3A FPGA Evaluation Kit: Demonstration of the low cost
Spartan-3A FPGA Evaluation Kit designed for experimenting and
prototyping applications based on the Xilinx Spartan-3A FPGA family.
The kit provides first time FPGA designers with an easy and practical
platform while also providing advanced users with unique design
capabilities. For more information, visit
http://www.em.avnet.com/spartan3a-evl.
-- Virtex-5 FXT ML507: Demonstration of the Virtex-5 FXT FPGA ML507
development board that provides a versatile development platform for
embedded applications. The board provides on-board memory and industry
standard connectivity interfaces targeting the industrial,
communications, medical, industrial, and military and aerospace markets.
For more information, visit
http://www.xilinx.com/products/devkits/HW-V5-ML507-UNI-G.htm

About Bits & Chips Hardware Conference

The Bits and Chips hardware conference is the meeting place for high tech professions from the world of high end embedded systems. The central themes of the event this year are FPGAs, high speed board design, RF design and IC design. The conference combines an extensive exhibition with an independent lecture program of in depth technical presentations. For more information, visit http://www.hardwareconference.nl/.

About Xilinx

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