1. Xilinx Company Overview Presentation First Quarter FY’01 ®

2. ® www.xilinx.com During the course of this presentation, we may provide projections or other forward-looking statements regarding future events and/or future financial performance. We wish to caution you that such statements are just predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially. We refer you to the documents the Company files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Specifically, the Company’s last filed Form 10-K for the fiscal year ending April 3, 1999. These documents contain and identify important factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those contained in our projections and other forward-looking statements. Safe Harbor Disclaimer

3. ® www.xilinx.com Outline  Industry Background  Market Segments / Applications  Opportunities  Financial Highlights

4. ® www.xilinx.com Why Programmable Logic?  Accelerated time to market and faster time to volume production —Interactive design expedites product development  PLDs are standard parts —Economies of scale —Low inventory risk for customer  Rapid response time —Modifications made quickly as standards/specs change

5. ® www.xilinx.com Where Xilinx Fits in the Electronics Industry Key components of an electronics system  Processor  Memory  Logic Xilinx Is the leading supplier of Programmable Logic Devices

6. ® www.xilinx.com Xilinx Revenue Breakdown Revenue by Geography June 2000 Revenue by End Equipment June 2000 Europe Japan ROW Other Communications Computing 8% 77% 15% North America 9% 7% 64% 20% Source: Xilinx

7. ® www.xilinx.com Applications / Customers Communications Cellular base stations Ericsson Central office switches Lucent Enterprise networking Cisco Systems Optical networking Nortel Networks Data Processing Mass storage EMC Computer peripherals IBM High speed servers Sun Microsystems Industrial / Other Medical equipment Hewlett-Packard Instrumentation Kodak Aviation / Aerospace Lockheed Martin End Market Application Customer

8. ® www.xilinx.com Strategic Business Model Ensures Focus  “Fabless” strategy —Leading edge IC process technology —Wafer capacity at competitive prices —Fastest, lowest cost, densest parts  Independent sales organization (Reps & Distributors) —Sales is a variable cost —Permits greater reach—over 15,000 customers  Focus on key strengths —Product design —Marketing —Technical Support

9. ® www.xilinx.com Xilinx Supply Chain UMC / USIC JV Seiko Epson AVNET Insight / VEBA NU Horizons Communications Computing Other 77% 15% 8% 90% 10% 65% 35% Direct Wafer FabricationDistribution NetworkEnd Market

10. ® www.xilinx.com Xilinx Supplies Complete Solution Silicon Software Support

11. ® www.xilinx.com Product Cycle II. Customer develops product using Xilinx chips I. Customer buys Xilinx software III. Product is released into marketplace

12. ® www.xilinx.com Leadership Solutions for Every Design Density Volume

13. ® www.xilinx.com Total Available Market Source: WSTS, Inc. October 1999 forecast Programmable Logic $2.9 B 1999 ASIC Market Size  $12.7 B Standard Cell & Gate Array $9.8 B 77% 23%

14. ® www.xilinx.com Projected Growth Rates Source: WSTS, October 1999 Revenue, $B 1999200120002002 4-year CAGR PLD 3.0 3.9 4.8 5.7 25.3% Logic 23.2 27.0 31.6 36.2 16.0%

15. ® www.xilinx.com Total 1998 PLD Market = $2.1 B PLD Industry Market Share Source: Dataquest, March 2000 32% Altera Xilinx 30% 20% Lattice Actel Other 11% 7% Xilinx Altera Actel Other Lattice 35% 33% 16% 9% 7% Total 1999 PLD Market = $2.6 B Source: Dataquest, March 2000

16. ® www.xilinx.com Xilinx, Inc. Revenues $ Millions Fiscal year ended March 31

17. ® www.xilinx.com Xilinx, Inc. Net Income $ Millions Fiscal year ended March 31

18. ® www.xilinx.com Financial Comparisons

19. ® www.xilinx.com Summary  Serving high-growth market segments —PLDs provide time-to-market and flexibility  Attractive business model —Highly proprietary model with high barriers to entry  Large market opportunity —Rapid cost reductions open new markets  History of strong financial performance

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