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Xilinx at SEE Symposium 2008

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 8, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced its unveiling of the new radiation-tolerant, reprogrammable Virtex(R)-4QV FPGAs for high-performance space applications at the 2008 Single Event Effects Symposium (SEE), April 15-17, 2008 inLong Beach, California. Xilinx employees will also present multiple papers at the SEE Symposium as well as provide an in-booth demonstration and technology presentation available for show attendees throughout the conference.

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    Technical Papers Highlighting Xilinx Technology
    Wednesday, April 16
           9:20 a.m.    Test Techniques and Lessons Learned: The XRTC Virtex-4
                        FPGA SEE Test Campaign

           9:40 a.m.    An Automated Approach to Estimating Hardness Assurance
                        Issues in Triple-Modular Redundancy Circuits in Xilinx
                        FPGAs

           10:00 a.m.   Upset Test Methodology and Results for a
                        Mitigated-by-TMR MicroBlaze Soft-Core Processor

           11:10 a.m.   Optimized Virtex-4 FPGA Self Hosting Configuration
                        Management

About SEE

The Single Event Effects (SEE) Symposium is dedicated towards the understanding of radiation-induced SEEs in microelectronics and photonics. SEEs occur when a single particle (neutron, proton or other heavy ion) interacts with the atoms that makeup a semiconductor. For more information visit www.radhome.gsfc.nasa.gov/radhome/SEE/index.html

About Xilinx Aerospace and Defense

Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions providing uninterrupted support to the Aerospace and Defense (A&D) community since 1989. Comprehensive solutions include commercial grade to radiation tolerant field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), A&D focused intellectual property (IP) for applications from image processing to waveform generation, and advanced technology such as partial reconfiguration and Single Chip Crypto. Xilinx offers long product lifecycles, high reliability devices, unique manufacturing flows, specialized design services, and advanced security solutions for High Assurance applications to support the long term program needs of the A&D industry. For more information, visit http://www.xilinx.com/esp/mil_aero.

About Xilinx

Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions. For more information, visit http://www.xilinx.com.

     Editorial contact:
     Silvia Gianelli
     Xilinx Inc
     (408) 626-4328
     silvia.gianelli@xilinx.com

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