Xilinx at Work in Hot New Technologies ® Spartan-II 64- and 32-bit PCI Solutions Below ASSP Prices January

Xilinx at Work in Hot New Technologies ® Introduction  Spartan-II FPGAs —100,000 system gates at under $10 —Extensive features: Block RAM, DLL, Select I/O —Vast IP portfolio — Provide Density, Features, Performance at ASIC prices A Spartan-II FPGA Based Programmable PCI Solution Competes Effectively Against Stand-Alone ASSPs

Xilinx at Work in Hot New Technologies ® PCI - Concept  PCI —Peripheral Component Interconnect —Originated in the PC industry —High performance bus that provides a processor independent data path between the CPU and high-speed peripherals —Robust interconnect mechanism developed to relieve the I/O bottlenecks —Used in the multiple high performance peripherals for graphics, full motion video, SCSI, LAN and embedded systems

Xilinx at Work in Hot New Technologies ® PCI Applications The PCI Solution is used in a Wide-Array of Applications:  ISA to PCI Local Bus Conversions  General Purpose PCI Interfacing  Data Communications  Memory Interfaces  Data Encryption/Decryption  High Speed Networking  Digital Video Applications  I/O Communications Ports  High Speed Data Input/Output (Acquisition)  Multimedia Communications

Xilinx at Work in Hot New Technologies ® Solution Overview  First 64-bit PCI Solution Under $13 —Supports 33 MHz PCI (50 MHz embedded designs)  First 32-bit PCI Solution Under $6 —Supports up to 66 MHz PCI Designs  Customizable Asynchronous FIFO Reference Designs —Integrate seemlessly with PCI cores

Xilinx at Work in Hot New Technologies ® Customer Benefits  Reduces Cost Over PCI ASSPs —Cost savings of more than 50%  Integrate and Replace System Functions —PLL/DLL clock management devices —SSTL-3/HSTL translators —Back plane logic and Drivers —External Memory devices —System & Caches Controllers  Significant Time to Market Advantage

Xilinx at Work in Hot New Technologies ® ASSP Replacement & Integration PCI ASSP Glue Logic System & Memory Controllers, DLLs, Level Translators ($20) External PLD PCI Master I/F ($5) Memory ($9) Standard Chip PCI Master I/F ($15) * Supported Devices XC2S30 XC2S50 XC2S100 XC2S150

Xilinx at Work in Hot New Technologies ® External PLD 7K Gates External DLLs, memories, Controllers and translators Cost-Reduction Standard Chip Relative Component Cost PCI ASSP PCI Master I/F XC2S30-5 PQ208 15K Gates Logic PCI Master I/F Solution <$6

Xilinx at Work in Hot New Technologies ® Spartan-II PCI Solutions Spartan-II Device PCI coreSpeedAvailable user- logic (system gates) Available BlockRAM Bits 2S30PCI 3233 MHz 50 MHz 15K24,576 2S50PCI 3233 MHz 50 MHz 66 MHz* 35K32,768 2S100PCI 32 PCI MHz 50 MHz 66 MHz* 80K-85K40,960 2S150PCI 32 PCI MHz 50 MHz 66 MHz* 130K-135K49,152 * PCI32 only. Available from Xilinx PCI XPERTS partners

Xilinx at Work in Hot New Technologies ® Real-PCI from Xilinx  Real-Compliance —Guarantees Setup, Hold and Min/Max Clock-to-Out timing  Real-Flexibility —Supports a wide range of Spartan-II devices allowing for easy device migration —Back-end decoupled from the PCI Interface to allow customization without affecting PCI timing  Real Performance —Zero-Wait state —Up to 264 MB/sec sustained throughput  Real-Availability —Right Here Right Now!

Xilinx at Work in Hot New Technologies ® Supported Synthesis Tools Supported Simulation Tools Download Over The Internet!

Xilinx at Work in Hot New Technologies ® Supporting Reference Designs  Asynchronous FIFOs and DMA Controller  Power Management Module User Design Up to 135,000 System Gates Power Management Module Asynchronous FIFOs Custom DMA Controller Real-PCI Interface PCI 64 PCI 32 User Interface PCI Bus

Xilinx at Work in Hot New Technologies ® PCI Consultant Services  Offered by Xilinx XPERTs Partners —Designers trained on Xilinx PCI solution —Services Offered –Core Integration –Device Migration –66MHz Speed Optimization —Free Design Consultation –Included with PCI Design Kits purchased from Insight Electronics –3-5 days of design services

Xilinx at Work in Hot New Technologies ® Spartan-II LogiCORE PCI Spartan-II LogiCORE PCI Block Diagram

Xilinx at Work in Hot New Technologies ® Programmable ASSP - Value  Benefits —Time to Market —Flexibility –Product Customization to meet customer needs –Adapt to Specification Updates –Feature Upgrades –Low risk evaluation of new market segments —Field Upgradability –Hardware and Software upgradability opens new applications —Efficiently Address Lower Volume Strategic Applications —Distribution and Inventory Management Spartan-II + Soft IP = Programmable ASSP

Xilinx at Work in Hot New Technologies ® Programmable ASSP Advantages  Accommodate Specification Changes —Multiple standards and specification changes are accommodated  Testing and Verification —What if the stand-alone ASSP does not perform as expected? —Being re-programmable, risk aversion is a tremendous value-add  Xilinx On-line - Field Upgradability —Remote update of Software and Hardware —Results in increased lifetime for a product —Enable product features per end-user needs  Issues in Creating a Stand-Alone ASSP —Choosing the right ASSP —Product customization —Development cost and amortization —Spartan-II family has amortized cost by selling to the traditional PLD marketplace

Xilinx at Work in Hot New Technologies ® 40K $10 Spartan-XL Spartan-II Syste m Gates Spartan-III 30K 250K 100K Driving Down The Cost of FPGAs

Xilinx at Work in Hot New Technologies ® Additional Support For Xilinx Solutions  Xilinx At Work Website Contains Detailed Information —HDL Design Files —Data Sheets —Glossary —Applications Notes —Reference Designs  FPGA Strategic Applications Group —System level expertise for Xilinx At Work vertical markets