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Oct 18, 2005 15:39 ET

Xilinx Demonstrates IEEE802.17-Compliant RPR MAC Solution at NSDC 2005

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- What: Xilinx Wired Communications Solutions at Network Systems Design
Conference (NSDC) 2005

Where: Booth #220, Parkside Hall, San Jose, Calif.

When: October 18 - October 20, 2005

Xilinx Booth Demonstrations:
-- Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) MAC Reference Design -- Reconfigurable RPR
MAC solution targeted for Xilinx Virtex(TM)-4 FPGAs. Ideal for RPR
equipment supporting 1G, 2.5G, and 10G RPR designs. Demo implements a
multi node RPR ring.
-- Cell Switch Reference Design -- Shared Memory Cell Switch solution
targeted for Xilinx Virtex(TM)-4 FPGAs. Ideal for Serial Backplane and
chip-to-chip applications. Demo implements a 4-port cell switch using
RocketIO PHY. Statistics such as latency, throughput, error rate are
reported.

Xilinx Tutorial on Tuesday, October 18
-- "Introduction to the Advanced Switching Interface (ASI)"
Presenter: Kiran Puranik, Sr. Staff Design Engineer, Xilinx

Xilinx Panel Sessions on Wednesday, October 19
-- "Bus Wars - Which Interconnect is Best for Networking Equipment, Why,
and When?"
Presenter: Delfin Rodillas, Staff System Architect, Wired
Communications, Xilinx
-- "40GHz: The Next Frontier in Networking Applications"
Presenters: Anthony Torza, Staff System Architect and Adrian Cosoroaba,
Memory Solutions Manager, Xilinx
-- "Which Technology is Right for Networking Equipment (ASICs, FPGAs,
Platform ASICS, Fixed Function Chips, General-Purpose Processors or
NPs)"
Presenter: Delfin Rodillas, Staff System Architect, Wired
Communications, Xilinx

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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