Summary Remaining Challenges The Future Messages to Take Home

Programmable is the Way to Go! Xilinx FPGAs provide the best complex-system solution they are vastly superior to ASICs custom-logic advantages in a standard product potential for dynamic reprogrammability they reduce time-to-market and risk configurable after board manufacture upgradable and fixable in the field Xilinx CPLDs offer similar benefits ISP technology reduces time-to-market and risk Xilinx CPLDs are programmable and reprogrammable on the board

Remaining Challenges Managing fast signals on the PC-board use low-swing interface standards lower dielectric-constant PC-boards on-chip clock doubling system-on-a-chip Power limitations lower supply voltages lower dielectric constant on the chip careful clock manipulation Managing design efficiency re-usable cores and other libraries team-based design

The Future IC density and speed will increase at least for another decade – Moore’s Law Xilinx is at the forefront of 0.18µ technology Programmable logic benefits directly from improved technology like memories and microprocessors ASICs do not benefit in the same way Seamless integration of desktop and internet for design and support New-end product opportunities using Internet Reconfigurable Logic (IRL)

Three Messages to Take Home Xilinx offers low-cost, easy-to-use solutions You need not be rich or a genius to use our programmable logic Xilinx devices allow 100+ MHz system clock rates You can achieve reliable and predictable performance – automatically Xilinx offers design methodologies for system-level integration You can create large FPGA designs without having to “re-invent the wheel”

Xilinx is Programmable Logic Programmable is the way to go! Thank you for your attention