2. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/2 Company Milestones 1984Xilinx founded - First “Fabless” Company 1985Introduced first field programmable gate array (FPGA) 1989More than one million devices sold 1990Initial public offering; FY90 revenue $50M 1995Xilinx ranked 10th largest ASIC supplier; Xilinx Ireland opens 1997Industry’s first advanced 0.35 & 0.25 micron FPGAs 1998Introduced low-cost Spartan FPGAs; Virtex Family 2000Xilinx exceeds $1B for FY2000

3. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/3 International Presence 2,000 Employees Worldwide 1,240 Employees in San Jose Area 2,000 Employees Worldwide 1,240 Employees in San Jose Area Headquarters, North American Manufacturing: San Jose, CA European Sales: London Asia Pacific Sales: Tokyo Asia Pacific Sales :Hong Kong Software Tools Development: Boulder, CO Manufacturing, software, IC design: Dublin, Ireland R&D: Grenoble, France CPLD Development Albuquerque, NM R&D: Edinburgh, Scotland North America Western Sales Dallas, TX North America Eastern Sales Boston, MA Headquarters R & D Sales

4. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/4 Xilinx Revenue Growth 1990-2000 Fiscal Year Revenues $98 $178 $614 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 19901991199219931994199519961997199819992000 $ Millions 1000 $50 $136 $256 $355 $561 $568 $662 2001E $1500 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 $1021

5. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/5 Source: Xilinx, Q4 fiscal 2000 Revenue by Geography: Quarter ended March 2000 Europe Japan ROW North America 20% 8% 6% 66%

6. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/6 Source: Xilinx, Q4 fiscal 2000 Revenue by Application: Quarter ended March 2000 Computing Other Communications 22% 6% 72%

7. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/7 Mission Help our customers attain the fast time-to-market and flexible product life cycle management through programmable logic solutions consisting of silicon, software and support Silicon Software Service

8. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/8 Where Xilinx Fits into the Electronics Industry  Processor  Memory  Logic Xilinx is the Leading Innovator of Complete Programmable Logic Solutions Xilinx is the Leading Innovator of Complete Programmable Logic Solutions Key components of an electronics system:

9. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/9 How Customers Use Programmable Logic Xilinx provides standard parts – “Blank” Integrated Circuits Customers create custom circuits with Xilinx Software Tools When customer design is final, they go into immediate production

10. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/10 Typical Applications  Communications  Computers  Instruments  Medical equipment  Defense electronics  Consumer electronics

11. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/11 Representative Worldwide Customers Acer Alcatel Boeing Cisco Eastman Kodak EMC Ericsson Fujitsu Hewlett-Packard Hitachi Acer Alcatel Boeing Cisco Eastman Kodak EMC Ericsson Fujitsu Hewlett-Packard Hitachi IBM Lockheed-Martin Lucent Technologies Motorola Nortel Rockwell International Samsung Sun Microsystems Texas Instruments IBM Lockheed-Martin Lucent Technologies Motorola Nortel Rockwell International Samsung Sun Microsystems Texas Instruments

12. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/12 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 —Sales is a variable cost —Permits greater reach—over 15,000 customers  Focus on key strengths —Research and development —Marketing —Applications engineering

13. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/13 Issues of IC Manufacturing 1. Costs of an IC manufacturing plant —6 ” fab cost:$400 - 500M —8” fab cost:$1B - 1.2B —12” fab cost:~ $3B 2. Capacity in 6” equivalent wafers —6” fab:30,000 per month —8” fab:60,000 per month —12” fab:150,000 per month These investments and capacity prohibit start-up in the IC area Solution: Fabless IC Companies

14. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/14 The Benefits of Adopting Leading Edge Process Technology  Smaller parts  Faster performance  Lower costs  More die per wafer  Increased reliability Same Size Wafers Size of Die from Older Process Size of Die from Newer Process

15. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/15 Market Expansion CPLD High Volume FPGA High End FPGA Standard Cell ASIC Mid-Low Density Gate Array ISP CPLD Low Power

16. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/16 Xilinx Software Solutions Alliance Series — Integrates with leading third-party software  Mentor, Cadence, Synopsys, Viewlogic, Exemplar...  High density, high performance designs Foundation Series — Ready to use, complete solutions  Easy to use push button design flows  Powerful auto-interactive capabilities LogiCORES and AllianceCORES  Pre-verified drop-in modules optimized or Xilinx FPGAs  PCI, DSP, USB, PCMCIA, Reed-Solomon encoder, UARTs

17. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/17 Summary  Silicon —Largest, fastest, lowest power FPGAs —Lowest cost CPLDs  Software —Alliance Series: HDL, synthesis, EDA integration, optimization —Foundation Series: ready to use, complete solutions —LogiCORES & AllianceCORES: optimized and supported —CORE Generator: delivery vehicle for parameterized cores  Service —Most comprehensive field and on-line technical support —Advanced Internet Web solutions  Process Technology —Deep submicron capacity — 0.18 micron in production —Better price, performance, density

18. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/18 Competitive Advantages  Customer focus —Unparalleled customer support —Committed to providing complete solution  Dedicated leader in research and development  Superior management of product life cycle  Market leader in FPGA technology —Performance, density, low power, software  Unsurpassed financial management

19. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/19 Why is Xilinx a Fantastic Place to Work? 1.Company loyalty 2.Strong value-based culture 3.Rich in folklore 4.Number one in our industry 5.Approachable management 6.Significant community involvement 7.Comprehensive training opportunities 8.Wealth available to all through company stock programs 9.Outstanding benefits and perks 10.Impressive facts and figures

20. is CREATIVE PEOPLE C ustomer Focused R espect E xcellence A ccountability T eamwork I ntegrity V ery Open Communication E njoy Our Work

21. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/21 Contract Manufacturing Financial Accounting  In process R&D  Pooling  Stock options Immigration  H1-B visa (HR3983) Employment  Employee assistance for graduate courses  Non-Exempt Employee Stock Options (S2323/HR4109) Trade and Export  Export Admin Act  Normal trade relations for China Current Public Policy Issues

22. ® www.xilinx.com 5.9.00/22 Why Customers Turn to Xilinx  Faster design time than gate arrays – save 6 - 9 months in time-to-market  Not enough volume for ASICs  Internet Reconfigurable Logic - upgradable systems