Xilinx
and Nu Horizons Announce Complete Development Solution
Utilizing New Spartan-IIE FPGA
MELVILLE,
New York and SAN JOSE, Calif., - (December 4, 2001) - Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. (NASDAQ:NUHC) and Xilinx,
Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced the immediate availability
of a low cost prototyping platform for design engineers
based on the recently introduced Xilinx™ Spartan™-IIE
FPGA. Designed to shorten product development times, the
Nu Horizons D2E board provides an excellent platform for
entry-level to mid-range designs. Nu Horizons was the
first to market with a development solution based on this
new robust FPGA family from Xilinx.
Some
of the many features of this development board include:
LVDS, Select I/O, Advanced System Clock Management, Select
RAM Memory, 200,000 System Gates, High-speed bus expansion
ports, On-board power management (power supply and cable
included), 9 Pin D and 25 Pin D style connector for UART
core and parallel port testing, JTAG configuration, and
a socket for serial PROM configuration. Since the D2E
has been designed specifically to work with the free Xilinx
ISE Webpack design tools, projects can quickly and easily
be implemented right on the desktop, with no hidden costs.
The Nu Horizons D2E development board is available for
shipment today at a cost of $99.00.
"We are extremely excited to provide a development
board for the newest Xilinx Spartan-IIE FPGAs," said
Dave Bowers, senior vice president of marketing at Nu
Horizons. "The combination of a low cost board with
no software costs provides design engineers with the opportunity
to develop, prototype, verify and test their designs before
they are finalized, thus providing them with a shortened
design completion timeframe and accelerated time to market
advantage."
"Support
for Spartan-IIE FPGAs is a significant milestone in our
relationship with NuHorizons in that it provides system-level
design access to a broad spectrum of Spartan-IIE customers,"
said Steve Sharp, senior manager of Silicon Solutions
Marketing at Xilinx. "The NuHorizons D2E board will
help system developers realize their designs easier and
more cost-efficiently."
The
high level system integration features of Spartan-IIE
FPGAs provide customers with an in-system reprogrammable
platform for designing a whole new set of upgradable high-volume
consumer applications. The system interface connectivity
of Spartan-IIE FPGAs provide advanced LVDS capabilities
for applications such as digital video, LCDs, plasma displays,
scanners and digital cameras. More information on the
Spartan-IIE family can be found on the Xilinx website
at www.xilinx.com/spartan. Additional information on the
Nu Horizons D2E development board, including board schematics
and user manual can be found on the Nu Horizons web site
at www.nuhorizons.com
About
Nu Horizons Electronics Corp.
Nu Horizons is a leading distributor of high technology
active components, including analog, communications, discretes,
optical, logic & peripherals, memory, microcontrollers,
specialty products and sub-system products to a wide variety
of commercial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)
throughout North America. With sales facilities in twenty-six
locations, Nu Horizons partners with a limited number
of the best-in-class suppliers to provide in-depth product
and solutions expertise to its customers. Information
on Nu Horizons and its services is available at http://www.nuhorizons.com.
About
Xilinx
Xilinx is the leading supplier of complete programmable
logic solutions, including advanced integrated circuits,
software design tools, predefined system functions delivered
as cores, and unparalleled field engineering support.
Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, Calif.,
Xilinx invented the field programmable gate array (FPGA)
and fulfills more than half of the world demand for these
devices today. Xilinx solutions enable customers to reduce
significantly the time required to develop products for
the computer, peripheral, telecommunications, networking,
industrial control, instrumentation, aerospace, defense,
low power portable and consumer markets. For more information,
visit the Xilinx Web site at http://www.xilinx.com.
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