Winter Edition of Xcell Journal Magazine Available Now

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced immediate availability of the latest edition of its quarterly Xcell Journal magazine at www.xilinx.com/publications/xcellonline.

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The cover story examines the latest business trends in the TV broadcast market and how FPGAs are helping companies rapidly bring 1080p, 3DTV and UltraHDTV broadcasts to a larger audience in wider variety of media—including handheld devices, automobile infotainment systems as well as TVs and cinema. The issue also includes several informative methodology and instructive how-to articles. Once again, Xcell Journal readers are invited to write a humorous caption for an interesting piece of art in Xcell's Xclamations section for a chance to win a new Spartan®-6 FPGA SP601 Evaluation Kit. After deliberations, Xcell's staff will award the author of the best caption with a new Spartan®-6 FPGA SP601 Evaluation Kit (read the contest rules at www.xilinx.com/xcellcontest) and recognize second and third place submissions with a Xilinx promotional gift.

"The Winter edition of Xcell Journal has some fabulous content," said Xcell Journal Publisher Mike Santarini. "Designers will find several how-to pieces that they can immediately apply to their designs. They can literally cut and paste code directly from the pdf and place it in their designs: how's that for quality editorial content?"

Cover Story:

• From Broadcast to 'Broader-cast' with FPGA-Based Innovations

Design Methodology, Application & How-to Features

• Xcellence in Wireless Communications: 4G Wireless Sphere Detector Built on FPGA
• Xcellence in Automotive & ISM: Driver Assistance System Rides FPGA Reconfigurability
• Xperts Corner: How to Achieve Timing Closure on FPGAs
• Xplanation: FPGA 101: Easy Route to Simple MicroBlaze Microcontroller
• Xperiment: FPGAs Hold Key to Greener Search
• Ask FAE-X: Implementing Downsampling FIR Filters in Xilinx FPGAs

Opinions and Xtras

• Publisher's Letter Xilinx Boards International Space Station
• Xtra, Xtra The latest Xilinx tool updates and patches, as of December 2009
• Xclamations! Supply an Xceptional caption for our artwork and win an SP601 Evaluation Kit

About Xcell Journal

Xcell Journal is an award-winning quarterly magazine that provides electronic designers of programmable digital systems with in-depth technical information regarding the latest advances in hardware and software technologies, systems, applications, services, and support. This digital magazine is available free and accessible on any standard Internet browser, requiring no software downloads and allowing readers to browse, search, make notes, email author and click through to advertiser web sites.

Xcell Journal is distributed worldwide to a subscriber base of application engineers, consultants, corporate executives, and engineering managers; hardware, software and system engineers; marketing professionals, educators, and researchers. For additional information, or to download individual Xcell Journal articles in PDF format, go to Xcell Online. To subscribe now, go to www.xilinx.com/xcell-subscribe.

About Xilinx

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

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