Summary

1. Summary Remaining Challenges The Future Messages to Take Home

2. Programmable is the Way to Go! • Xilinx FPGAs provide the best complex-system solution • they are vastly superior to ASICs • custom-logic advantages in a standard product • potential for dynamic reprogrammability • they reduce time-to-market and risk • configurable after board manufacture • upgradable and fixable in the field • Xilinx CPLDs offer similar benefits • ISP technology reduces time-to-market and risk • Xilinx CPLDs are programmable and reprogrammable on the board

3. Remaining Challenges • Managing fast signals on the PC-board • use low-swing interface standards • lower dielectric-constant PC-boards • on-chip clock doubling • system-on-a-chip • Power limitations • lower supply voltages • lower dielectric constant on the chip • careful clock manipulation • Managing design efficiency • re-usable cores and other libraries • team-based design

4. The Future • IC density and speed will increase at least for another decade – Moore’s Law • Xilinx is at the forefront of 0.18µ technology • Programmable logic benefits directly from improved technology • like memories and microprocessors • ASICs do not benefit in the same way • Seamless integration of desktop and internet for design and support • New-end product opportunities using Internet Reconfigurable Logic (IRL)

5. Three Messages to Take Home • Xilinx offers low-cost, easy-to-use solutions • You need not be rich or a genius to use our programmable logic • Xilinx devices allow 100+ MHz system clock rates • You can achieve reliable and predictable performance – automatically • Xilinx offers design methodologies for system-level integration • You can create large FPGA designs without having to “re-invent the wheel”

6. Xilinx is Programmable Logic Thank you for your attention Programmableis the way to go!