On February 17, 2012, Beijing, China-global programmable platform leading manufacturers and best company spirit (Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX)) announced that its latest product line-28 nm field programmable gates array (FPGA) as well as the EPP extensible processing platform, won $1 billion Design adopted (Design Wins), for programmable logic devices (PLD) industry set up a new milestone.

So far, the best spirit in the global shipment has thousands of Virtex ®-7, Virtex-7 2000 T 2.5 D silicon chip stack Internet (SSI), Kintex ™-7 and Zynq ™-7000 devices, support more than 90 different customers, won nearly 350 design adopted. With the best spirit 28 nm device, engineering research and development team in the spirit can think of different products series between the ease of design migration, at the same time, for a variety of different application can, structure can span the product of series of flexible can upgrade the system structure, the application of high performance including air defense radar and video processing system, cutting-edge 200 G cable communication system and LTE wireless communication equipment, high resolution of medical imaging, life science research advanced vehicles, guarantee the safe driving the car driving auxiliary system, high precision factory automation equipment and so on.

L-3 Wescam company chief technical chief executive Steve Tritchew said: "L-3 Wescam are using the best new 28 nm spirit product line to reduce the size of the electronic devices and power consumption, for our monitoring and target product to achieve a new generation of advanced video processing algorithm." He pointed out that, "Zynq extensible processing platform added a high performance standards of dual-core ARM A9 processor subsystems, this will further improve our electronic product integration, at the same time, reduce the complexity of the design and power consumption. We look forward to the next generation of software tools of the best spirit can greatly reduce the execution of the compiled by time, help us to speed up product development speed. We also look forward to the" spirit thought can provide more open, support industry standard IP storehouse, this will also help us greatly improve the IP reuse efficiency."

Using TSMC 28 nm HPL high performance low power consumption (high-performance/low power) process of the best 28 nm spirit structure and completely according to the market demand and customization of extensive product combination, make the best spirit created PLD industry product shipment to the fastest record. In just 11 months, the spirit is the best delivery five product series of four series. And a generation product only came out with two product series of the first device delivery speed compared to reduce the time more than half. The best spirit in order to speed up the system development and integration, have also launched three new 7 series goal design platform. These targets design platform is the thought and spirit is ecological system partners is coming out of the nearly 40 members of the first group of suites, used to support embedded and high speed connection function applications, meet the car, radio, consumer, industrial and communication, the demand of the market. Each type of suite of design can provide reference form a complete set for a novice and rich experience of the FPGA design personnel to provide the ideal design starting point, help quickly with the design work, and to achieve the best performance, the lowest power consumption and high bandwidth, and make full use of the characteristics of the best spirit FPGA rich.

"History shows that the first new process node in the delivery of products manufacturers, often PLD the life cycle of the products can bring significant advantage", market research company IHS iSuppli chief analysts Jordan Selburn said, "28 nm process node of programmable logic devices, it is crucial. In 28 nm node craft, programmable logic devices can will hardware programmable sex and software programmable sex together in a single device, achieve the more system function, so as to bring higher than the market for the industry." the rate of growth of the spirit of the 28 nm think extensive product combination, are gaining momentum, ready to meet more and more clients demand."

The best spirit has been completed more than 10 of the device of products flow pieces (Tape Out), and 2012 years are expected to achieve its all 28 nm product combination of the sample delivery. The best Kintex-7 K325T spirit has recently passed the strict device of quality authentication, is expected to in June quarter (in the June quarter) for more extensive customers based devices batch production. Completely through the verification and eligible TSMC HPL high performance low power consumption process, for the spirit think 28 nm device won great time to market advantages, and also provide the best positive spirit with consistent development blueprint and better than previous generations of technology product yield.

"TSMC is very happy to be the best cooperation spirit and realize its 28 nm, common the success of the device delivery speed", TSMC North America vice President Sajiv Dalal says, "at TSMC 28 nm HPL technology, we see more and more of the customer's needs. TSMC 28 nm process for high performance low power consumption HPL advanced technology that provide the low leakage, high performance function of superiority, application range from high performance system to mobile consumer areas."

In addition to a record pace to provide 28 nm outside technology, the best spirit Virtex-7 series FPGA drives the development of the highest system bandwidth; Kintex-7 series FPGA meet tough cost and power consumption demand; The rest of the upcoming release of Artix-7 series is aimed to meet the FPGA quantity or the cost of sensitive application the demand of the market. In addition, the best spirit Zynq-7000 EPP through the standard ARM dual-core processing System and 28 nm programmable logic structure perfect integration in together, for the new Chip System (System-on-Chip) provides incomparable System performance, flexibility and integration advantage