"Performing FPGA silicon simulation during the PCB design cycle is critical for achieving performance, reliability and time-to-market objectives," said Patrick Dorsey Senior Director, Product Management at Xilinx.  "Xilinx is focused on continuous improvements to the industry's lowest-total-cost FPGA platform and the delivery of Zuken's new freely downloadable simulation kit provides a significant addition to the broad third party support behind the Spartan series of FPGAs to further reduce the time and development expense of getting cost-sensitive applications to market."

"Preliminary verification of PCBs using Signal Integrity (SI) simulation is very important; conducting an effective test with minimum effort is a key issue."  Said Werner Rissiek, General Manager Engineering Europe.  "We have received a lot of requests from customers for the Spartan-3 FPGA simulation kit since last year's Virtex-5 family simulation kit announcement and we'll soon be offering support for the Extended Spartan-3A family.  Using our new simulation kit, a circuit engineer can speedily and easily evaluate signal integrity of memory I/O without the need for onerous preparation."

Xilinx design kit download site http://support.zuken.co.uk/support/kits/xilinx.htm A Zuken LinkZ account and password are required to access this site.  This type of account is offered to Zuken customers who have a maintenance agreement.

Collaboration with Semiconductor Vendors Zuken is working to shorten customers' design and verification cycles, and consequently time-to-market, through collaboration with various semiconductor vendors.

About Spartan-3 FPGAs:

Built to provide the optimal balance of low-cost and high-value features, Xilinx Spartan Series of low-cost FPGAs includes the Extended Spartan-3A, Spartan-3E, Spartan-3, Spartan-IIE, Spartan-II, Spartan-XL and Spartan families.  With DSP optimized devices and backed by the industry's most comprehensive IP library as well as the largest selection of device/package options, the Spartan series delivers up to 50% lower system costs than competing FPGAs.  Spartan devices can be used in many cost-sensitive and high-volume applications, including Industrial Networking, Automotive Networking, Display Video Co-processing, Wireless CPE, Display Panels, Display Peripheral Bridging and many more.  Visit http://www.xilinx.com/spartan for more information.

About Zuken

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Zuken's robust market position is reinforced by an established position in the industry with over 30 years experience, and solid financial foundations.  As a stable multinational company, listed on Tier 1 of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Zuken is able to remain focused on being a long-term innovation and growth partner.  The security of an investment by partnering with Zuken is further reinforced by the company's people - the foundation of Zuken's success.  Coming from a wide range of industry sectors, specializing in many different disciplines and advanced technologies, Zuken's people are able to relate to and understand each company's unique requirements.

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