1. Xilinx “The Programmable Logic Company”
The focus of this presentation is to inform the customer about the Excel with XL product announcement. This announcement covers our new CPLD, SPARTAN, and 4kX families.
These new families open up new markets with lower cost, high-performance, and high-density devices.
Xilinx covers the PLD designer for low-cost, high-performance & high-density PN

2. XILINX Products Complete Programmable Logic Solution CPLDs Software
SPROMs
Cores
HardWire
Hi-Rel
This foil is a summary of the current Xilinx portfolio at the business unit level. It graphically illustrates that Xilinx is the complete programmable logic solution.
Our competitors do not support customers with HardWire, Hi-Rel and an extensive Core offering. This is another reason to partner with Xilinx.
FPGAs
Complete Programmable Logic Solution

3. Xilinx Announces 21 New Devices in 1998
Leading the industry through ...
Process Technology
0.35 & 0.25 micron technology
Common Architectures
Segmented routing
Distributed RAM
Business Unit Organization
Dedicated marketing, engineering & support
On September 28th, Xilinx released 21 new devices to the PLD user. This includes:
Four XC9500XL CPLD devices
Eight XC4000XLA Devices
Four XC4000XV Devices
Five Spartan XL Devices
-Our ability to lead the industry in process technology with our strategic partners has again led to additional customer benefits.
-Our common architecture has significantly reduced our time to introduce enhanced devices
-Our business unit strategy provides focus on an individual product series assuring the customer that Xilinx will continue to develop industry-leading devices
Biggest product launch in PLD history!

4. Xilinx Announces 21 New Devices in 1998
XC9500XL: Industry’s speed & cost leader 1st 0.35 micron & 3.3V Flash CPLD technology
SpartanXL: Industry’s lowest cost FPGA FPGAs for under $3
XC4000XLA: Industry’s fastest FPGA
XC4000XV: Industry’s largest FPGA 1st 500,000 gate FPGA, doubles density
We have again asserted our leadership in Density, Speed, low power, and price. With this introduction we now offer the customer alternatives never before available.
We are now reaching new applications and markets due to our aggressive price posture with 9500XL CPLDs and the very cost aggressive Spartan XL FPGA.
Biggest product launch in PLD history!

5. 4 New 9500XL Devices Industry’s first true 0.35 µm 3.3v Flash CPLD
Lowest cost CPLD solution
1st ISP CPLD with 10,000 program/erase cycles & 20 year data retention
Highest performance: tPD = 4ns, fSYS = 200 MHz
First CPLD in chip scale packaging (CSP)
Lowest price per macrocell solution
The four 9500XL CPLD devices lead the industry with the lowest cost solution. It is the first true 0.35 micron 3.3 volt family. The 9500XL family provides the designer:
- The industry’s best ISP solution
- 20 year data retention
- 10,000 program/erase cycles
- Industry leading packaging
- High performance
All for one low price.
And with Webfitter, our web-based evaluation tool, it’s easy to determine which CPLD device will best fit the customer’s design.
Industry’s first true 0.35 µm 3.3v Flash CPLD

6. 9500XL The True 3.3v Solution True 3.3V 0.35µm Small Die Xilinx
XC9500XL
(0.35µm metal)
Degraded 5V
Inefficient 3.3V
Lattice ispLSI2000V
Altera Max7000A
Large
Die
Xilinx leads again in the process technology for both die size and FLASH.
Altera recently stated in EBN 9/2/98 that they will not do any further shrinks beyond 0.25micron and they will integrate their CPLDs into the Raphael family. We believe this is because their technology prevents further shrinks. Where does this leave the CPLD user?
FLASH will allow Xilinx continue migrating to smaller die sizes beyond 0.25 micron.
Vantis Mach5LV
(0.5µm metal)
Slow
Fast
(0.5µm drawn length)
(0.35µm drawn length)

7. Spartan Series FPGAs 5 New 3.3V Devices
Xilinx is announcing another enhancement to our industry leading Spartan family after only 8 months!
The SpartanXL series offers the ASIC and FPGA designer another five enhanced, low-cost devices.
5 New 3.3V Devices

8. Spartan XL Leadership Process technology Package offering Test flow
Smallest die size of any FPGA with on-chip RAM
Package offering
Low-power architecture allows use of highest volume plastic packages (PLCC, VQ, TQ, PQ, BGA)
Test flow
Lower cost test hardware
Built-in self test features
Shorter test times
Spartan XL continues to offer industry-leading FPGAs.
- Smaller die sizes with on-chip RAM
- Low power allows Xilinx to use high volume plastic packages resulting in lower cost
- Test flows are made simple due to built in self testing

9. Programmable logic advantages at ASIC prices
SpartanXL 3.3 Volt FPGAs
First FPGA below $3.00
Entire family of 5 devices under $10.00
Up to 40,000 system gates with on-chip SelectRAMTM
Programmable logic advantages at ASIC prices
It’s all about Cost Leadership.
We can now fit into sockets formerly not accessible to programmable suppliers. These sockets were filled by Orbit, AMI, Temec and other 2nd tier ASIC suppliers.
Programmable logic advantages at ASIC prices

10. XC4000XLA & XC4000XV
Now on to the 4KX families...

11. XC4000X Series 4000XLA 4000XV 4000XL Next Generation Doubles Density &
208
MHz
4000XLA
4000XV
I/O Performance 96
MHz
4000XL
Here are the members of the 4kX families and their capacity/performance limits.
Again note the 500K density and the 200 MHz speeds.
180K
500K
System Gates
Next Generation Doubles Density &
Performance of Industry leading XC4000X

12. 12 Industry Leading XC4000X Series FPGAs
XC4000XLA: Industry’s Fastest Family
8 New Devices
Fastest FPGA
200 MHz chip-to-chip speeds
First 0.25 micron devices
New lower cost
With eight new devices in the XC4000XLA family,
Xilinx continues to be the leader in: density, low power consumption and speed.
Leadership is very important to the customer when selecting vendors for strategic alliances. With the breadth of our product portfolio and the various alternatives we provide the customer the ability to design and purchase devices that meet their requirements.
Xilinx does not offer only one or two devices and call it a product family. We also enable the customer to migrate to various product depending on their density, price, speed, power, and packaging needs.

13. XC4000XLA Doubles System Speeds
208 MHz
133 MHz
96 MHz
This foil illustrates the system speed enhancements of the XC4000XLA and XC4000XV architectures. The new fast I/O clocks double the performance of the 4000XL global clocks to 208 MHz.
System performance is measured as the inverse of clock-to-out + input setup + hold times.
System Speed = 1 / (Clk-Out + Setup + Hold)

14. XC4000X Series Internal Performance
314 MHz
172 MHz
108 MHz
Internal performance of large macro functions illustrate the high speed capabilities of the 4KX families. A 32-bit adder, which is complex and contains many logic levels, can reach 108 MHz. A pre-scaled counter tips the chart at 314 MHz. And an 8 by 256 dual-port RAM block achieves 172 MHz.

15. 12 Industry Leading XC4000X Series FPGAs
XC4000XV: Industry’s Largest FPGA
4 New Devices
500,000 system gates
First 2.5v FPGA
Advanced 0.25 micron 5LM process
With four new devices in the XC4000XV family Xilinx continues to be the leader in density (500K system gates), speed and low power consumption (due to 2.5v operation).
With the breadth of our product portfolio with many alternatives, we allow the customer to easily design devices that meet their needs.

16. 0.25 Micron Process Reduces Power Consumption
Our leading-edge process technology gives the customer a variety of very low power and high density devices.
No other vendor gives the customer more options and allows him to design with the device that best fits their design parameters.

17. Xilinx Leadership Continues with 2M & 4 M SPROM
Previously Today
XC40250XV
256
XC40250XV
1704L
1702L
Available
Today!
The Xilinx Serial Configuration PROM family
We have the largest configuration memory available - 4Mbit 3.3V
We have SPROMs (XC17Sxx/XL) for the SPARTAN FPGA family
SPROMs are the fastest, easiest to use and most cost effective solution for the configuration of FPGAs.
Xilinx supplies the lowest cost SPROMs in the industry
ISP SPROM
A Re-programmable, JTAG ISP compatible family
Will be releasing: 4Mbit, 2Mb, 1Mb, 512Kb & 256Kb devices
Currently under development with Samples scheduled for 12/98
VQ44 package for the largest PROMs
Production volumes in Q199
24 devices
24 x 256 kbit = 6 Mbit
2 devices
4Mbit + 2Mbit = 6 Mbit
Largest configuration SPROM in the industry

18. Xilinx: “The Programmable Logic Company”
Summary
“Excel with XL” largest product launch in history
21 new devices pushing the technology limits
Lowest cost families in industry
9500XL CPLD
SpartanXL FPGA
Fastest FPGA: 4000XLA
Highest density FPGA: 4000XV
2M & 4M SPROMs
Xilinx has taken leadership by changing the paradigm (pa -ra-dime) most engineers have lived with when using ASICs. We now have a new breed of FPGAs ranging in density from 2,000 to 500,000 gates in the industry’s largest selection of speeds, packages, and voltages.
We have the lowest cost families in the industry: a true low cost 3.3v CPLD with the 9500XL and a reprogrammable device including RAM, for under $3 with SpartanXL.
The 4KX series provide the fastest and largest FPGAs in the industry with the 4000XLA and 4000XV families, with SPROMs to support them.
So with the historic “Excel with XL” product launch, it affirms once more that Xilinx is: “The Programmable Logic Company”.
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Xilinx: “The Programmable Logic Company”