PR Newswire
Feb 27, 2007 07:30 ET

Xilinx Features PCI Express Technology Solutions on National Semiconductor's Analog by Design Show

Demonstrates Long-Reach Cable Applications

What: Xilinx joins National Semiconductor's Analog by Design Show featuring Dr. Howard Johnson and Bob Pease: How to transmit high-speed digital data over inexpensive and longer-than-standard cables while maintaining signal integrity

Where: Tune in for a lively discussion and lab demonstration at http://www.national.com/nationaltv

When: Starting on Tuesday, February 27, 2007

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) , today announced its participation in the National Semiconductor Analog by Design Show, online reality TV for analog design engineers. This new episode of the Analog by Design show will focus on how to transmit high-speed digital data over inexpensive and longer-than-standard cables and still maintain signal integrity. SI gurus, Dr. Howard Johnson and Bob Pease will lead the discussion and live demonstration along with Jim Beneke from Avnet and Navneet Rao from Xilinx. These companies collaborated to demonstrate the PCI(R) Express technology over 15m cable using Xilinx Spartan(TM)-3 FPGA development kit for PCIe and National signal conditioning devices to enable emerging applications such as video surveillance, detached media storage, and data warehousing. Tune-in on February 27 by visiting http://www.national.com/nationaltv.

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Demonstration specifics:
-- A physical demonstration of pre-emphasis and de-emphasis
-- Explanations for De-emphasis, pre-emphasis and equalization
-- View how National signal conditioning devices work with Xilinx
Spartan-3 Development kit for PCI Express to extend the standard cable
up to 15m
-- View high-definition video up to 100 feet on CAT6 cable

About Xilinx Solutions for PCI Express:

Xilinx provides high-performance x1-x8 PCI Express solutions at zero license cost for leading edge communications, broadcast, and aerospace/defense applications with industry's highest-performance 65nm Virtex(TM)-5 FPGA family with built-in PCIe endpoint blocks and transceivers. Plus, low cost x1 PCI Express solutions for consumer applications with cost-optimized Spartan-3 generation FPGAs and external NXP PHY. Designers can take immediate advantage of promotional price of $310 (regular list price of $349) on the Spartan-3 Kit for PCIe by ordering it before the end of March, 2007.

About Xilinx

Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) is the worldwide leader of programmable logic solutions. Additional information about Xilinx is available at http://www.xilinx.com/.