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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
XILINX DESIGN SERVICES HELPS
ARCHITECT INDUSTRY'S FIRST 10 GBPS FIBRE CHANNEL TECHNOLOGY
Emulex Corporation uses Xilinx Virtex-II FPGAs
to deliver and demonstrate
10G technology
SAN JOSE, Calif., December 6, 2002 - Xilinx, Inc.
(NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced that Emulex Corporation leveraged
Xilinx Design Services (XDS) to architect the industry's first 10
Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) Fibre Channel technology. The demonstration,
which was recently demonstrated at Fall Comdex 2002, featured the
delivery of 10Gbps protocol compliant data streams over optical
cabling utilizing Emulex ASIC, firmware, and driver technology.
Xilinx Design Services helped develop the design using Xilinx Virtex®-II
Platform FPGAs to create an industry standard XGMII compliant parallel
data interface.
"Xilinx Design Services has been instrumental in helping
us to demonstrate 10Gbps Fibre Channel technology," said Mike Smith,
executive vice president of Worldwide Marketing at Emulex. "The
flexible Virtex-II Platform FPGA logic enabled us to implement the
XGMII interface to communicate with external serdes while being
compliant with the Fibre Channel protocol."
"Emulex is on the leading edge of developing 10Gbps
technology, and we are pleased to offer the necessary FPGA design
expertise and resources to help Emulex deliver the industry's first
10Gbps Fibre Channel technology demonstration," said Dave DeMarinis,
director of Xilinx Design Services. "The development of 10Gbps technology
for both Fibre Channel and iSCSI SANs is critical to enabling the
next phase of link bandwidth."
Today's news underscores Xilinx's commitment to lead
the industry move from parallel to high-speed serial I/O through
its High-Speed Serial Initiative. Emulex's demonstration features
a custom designed circuit board that utilizes a Xilinx Virtex-II
FPGA to create an industry standard XGMII compliant parallel data
interface. Xilinx Design Services also supports customers interested
in implementing emerging serial designs such as Serial RapidIO,
XAUI, PCI Express. For more information regarding Xilinx High-Speed
Serial Initiative solutions, visit www.xilinx.com/serialsolution.
For both Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage area networks,
the next generation technology is 10Gbps which is designed to provide
five times the bandwidth of today's 2Gbps Fibre Channel SANs and
ten times the bandwidth of gigabit Ethernet-based iSCSI. The 10Gbps
Fibre Channel protocol is specified to support switched fabrics,
which is a critical requirement for SAN deployment.
About Xilinx Design Services
Xilinx Design Services augments customer design teams with industry
experts in FPGA design techniques and programmable logic solutions
such as systems architecture consulting, hardware engineering, and
embedded software design. Led by professionals with proven project
management skills, the XDS team of FPGA hardware engineers, embedded
software designers, product specialists, and system architects help
customers get their products to market faster, more cost-effectively,
and with optimal performance. More information about Xilinx Design
Services is available at www.support.xilinx.com/xds.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic
solutions. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
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