Portable devices boost company profits

Xilinx annual CPLD sales have grown more than 85% over the past five calendar years, compared with overall market growth of just 17%.

Xilinx has announced double-digit growth in CPLD revenues, driven by strong growth in portable consumer applications such as PDAs, cell phones,and MP3 players.

The Xilinx CoolRunner-II family of low-power CPLDs grew 30% quarter-to-quarter.

Now representing a record 10% of overall company revenue, Xilinx annual CPLD sales have grown more than 85% over the past five calendar years, compared with overall market growth of just 17%.

"Our growth continues as more and more portable design engineers begin to realise the time to market, low power and cost benefits of our CPLDs", said David Loftus, General Manager of the CPLD Division at Xilinx.

"Time to market and shorter product life cycles are driving consumer market designers away from fixed ASIC/ASSP architectures to the flexibility offered by programmable logic".

"As our costs continue to decline, we have become even more competitive in winning high-volume consumer application designs, especially in portable handsets".

"Last quarter, we shipped over one million devices in a single month to one of our top handset manufacturers and that trend is expected to continue".

Xilinx CoolRunner-II CPLDs offer the lowest power consumption, highest I/O count per macrocell, and smallest packaging in the industry and are cost optimised to address the pricing pressure of products designed for a broad spectrum of applications.

Available in densities ranging from 32 to 512 macrocells, the CoolRunner-II family achieves performance of up to 323MHz and pin-to-pin delays as small as 3.0ns while providing a standby power of less than 33uW.

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