Xilinx Ships First Artix-7 FPGAs – Raising the Performance Bar for Portable and Small Form Factor Applications at the ‘Edge’

A new FPGA performance standard with the lowest power and lowest costSAN JOSE, Calif., July 17, 2011 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced first shipments of its Artix™-7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) family. The new devices extend the reach of FPGA technology to applications requiring performance capabilities traditionally served by Virtex® FPGAs, but the form factor of small, low-cost programmable devices. Makers of portable medical, hand-held radio, and small cellular base stations – and a host of other professional grade applications that sit at the edge of their