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HIGH-VOLUME SOLUTIONS
CoolRunner-II CPLDs
Offer New Features
New updates to CoolRunner-II 32- and
64-macrocell CPLDs are now available.
by Steve Prokosch
High-Volume Product Solutions Marketing Manager
Xilinx, Inc.
[email protected]
Since joining the CPLD market in 1992,
Xilinx® has gone from being the new kid
on the block to the second largest CPLD
supplier, and is closing the gap on the
number-one position in both volume and
sales dollars. Growth has come from listening to customer input and creating innovative ideas to satisfy customer needs.
Continued improvement is an ongoing
goal. Toward this end, Xilinx has extended
the features of its 32- and 64-macrocell
CPLD devices by augmenting a feature, currently only available on higher density parts,
that will help ease design difficulties and
reduce total system costs. In conjunction
with added features, Xilinx is also offering
new packages to decrease the cost-per-I/O
for small footprint packages. These new
packages will help Xilinx continue to penetrate low-cost, battery-operated devices.
Xilinx is achieving CPLD market share
growth through both traditional applications such as computing, data processing,
networking, and telecommunications, and
non-traditional applications such as consumer products (set top boxes and large
screen TVs – both plasma and LCD) and
key handheld markets (PDAs, handset, and
other battery operated products). With
new market success and continued traditional market use, CPLDs will continue to
show growth in system logic solutions.
Second Quarter 2005
Xcell Journal
31