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Solutions for Industrial and Automotive Markets at Electronica 2006

Xilinx Proves Programmable Solutions are Everywhere - 'At the Heart, At the Edge, On the Move'

DUBLIN, Ireland, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) , a leading programmable logic supplier, today announced its participation at Electronica 2006 in Munich, Germany 14-17 November, 2006, Hall A4, Stand 576. Xilinx will feature its extensive portfolio of FPGA-based solutions, pervasive in all areas of everyday life. In particular, the Xilinx team will showcase solutions focused in the areas of in-car entertainment, driver assistance, security systems and industrial networking. Visitors to the stand will also see Xilinx solutions featured in a wide range of end products highlighting the benefits of its leading edge technology such as the latest Virtex-5 FPGA platform, the world's first 65nm FPGA which provides the most complete system integration platform available today as well as its high volume, low-cost Spartan-3 Generation solutions.

Xilinx Booth (Hall A4 Stand 576) Demonstrations:

-- PCIe in both hardware and software for a totally flexible solution
-- Security system showing video over Ethernet and DSP capability
-- 3D imaging for facial reconstruction demonstrating the acceleration of
hardware over software in high-performance medical video based
applications
-- Industrial networking featuring EtherCAT and SERCOS-III
-- Image acquisition system for industrial machine vision systems
-- MOST networking featuring the Xilinx MOST solution and
MicroBlaze processor
-- Vehicle laser sensor for object detection required by multiple driver
assistance systems
-- Configurable graphic controller solutions for instrumentation clusters
and infotainment

Xilinx Conference Program Presentation:

Tuesday 14 November, 16h00 -- Session 4: Embedded Hardware II -- DSPs and FPGAs

-- Maximising Performance of your DSP Design in FPGAs

Visit www.xilinx.com/automotive/ or www.xilinx.com/esp/ind_sci_med/ to learn more about Xilinx solutions for automotive and industrial solutions.