SANTA CLARA and SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 19, 2010 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), today announced they have established a new chip-scale micro- and nanophotonic- systems testing facility on the UCSD campus. The new facility is part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) project and is being set up in conjunction with the multi-university Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN), led by The University of Arizona.

The new Chip-Scale Photonic Testing Facility is housed in the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) which is located on the UCSD campus. The facility will support testing and characterization of micro- and nano-scale ultra-high-speed optical components and subsystems for numerous applications, including technology for future data centers and cloud computing.

“Accurate, high-speed measurements are essential to the investigation of novel designs and fabrication techniques for nanophotonic devices,” said CIAN Deputy Director Yeshaiahu Fainman, a Cymer Professor of Advanced Optical Technologies in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of UCSD’s  Jacobs School of Engineering. “This testing facility will hopefully lead to closer collaborations with our industry partners. Agilent Technologies has made it possible for us to build a facility with state-of-the-art test and measurement equipment that complement the technologies deployed in other UCSD and CIAN laboratories.”

A complete suite of 40 Gigabits-per-second (Gbps) test equipment will permit component-level compliance testing and troubleshooting of devices intended for NSF’s MRI Data Center Testbed, further enhancing the work of Calit2 and CIAN in these areas. In the next few years, CIAN participants at UCSD expect to upgrade the basic data rates of the Chip-Scale Photonic Testing Facility from 40 Gbps to 100 Gbps (and greater). The facility also will add system- and network-level analysis capabilities, including modulation and bit-error rate measurement.

“In addition to testbeds, another major thrust of CIAN is the development of industrial collaborations and technology transfer to the private sector,” said CIAN Director Nasser Peyghambarian, a professor of optics at UA. “We are delighted with the supportive role that Agilent Technologies is taking with respect to research in testbeds, industrial collaborations, technology transfer, education outreach and diversity.”

“We are delighted to be associated with the CIAN research effort and to help establish the testbed facility at UCSD for CIAN,” said Bill Wallace, Americas region director of university development, Agilent. “The research conducted by distinguished CIAN and UCSD faculty will enable new, affordable and flexible networks, with data service rates of 10 Gigabits-per-second. The research being conducted by CIAN is both interesting and transformational in nature.”

Calit2 currently hosts a second photonics testbed at UCSD, which is one of the NSF’s Engineering Research Centers. The photonics testbed is used by researchers from the nine universities participating in CIAN.

Based at the University of Arizona (UA), CIAN is designed to create transformative technology for optical access networks. Virtually any application requiring any resource can be seamlessly and efficiently aggregated and interfaced with existing and future core networks in a cost-effective manner.

UA recently began construction on a new testbed for optical aggregation networking, another NSF facility, with matching support from Agilent as well as Fujitsu Network Communications and Yokogawa Corp. of America. CIAN researchers also can access existing facilities at Columbia
University for cross-layer optimization, and the University of Southern California for optical data introspection, which round out the principal sites for CIAN researchers who need specialized testing capabilities.

About CIAN

The Center for Integrated Access Networks is an NSF Engineering Research Center. It is a multi-institutional research effort based at The University of Arizona aimed at removing one of the last bottlenecks in the Internet by developing optoelectronic technologies for high-bandwidth, low-cost, widespread access and aggregation networks. Other members of CIAN include UC San Diego, Columbia University, USC, UC Berkeley, UCLA, California Institute of Technology, Norfolk State University and Tuskegee University. CIAN was created in 2008 with an $18.5 million grant from the NSF. www.cian-erc.org

About Calit2 at UC San Diego

The UC San Diego Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), together with Calit2’s division at UC Irvine, house over 1,000 researchers across the two campuses, organized around more than 50 projects on the future of telecommunications and information technology and how these technologies will transform a range of applications important to the California economy and its citizens’ quality of life. Calit2 will celebrate its 10th anniversary in December 2010. www.calit2.net www.ucsd.edu

About Agilent Technologies

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world’s premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company’s 16,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenues of $4.5 billion in fiscal 2009. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.

TOKYO and SAN JOSE, Calif., April 22 — Xilinx®, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) , today announced that NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. has adopted the Xilinx Virtex®-5 FPGA family for three models of its DLP Cinema® Projectors.

DLP Cinema® projectors comply with the U.S. Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI(1)) standard, including a host of security features, and can adapt to a wide range of input signals. The systems faithfully reproduce input sources, with both high-resolution and high-contrast requirements, incorporating Texas Instruments’ high-resolution 2K (2,048 × 1,080 dot) DLP Cinema® chips. The Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA family reduces the design cost of peripheral devices by providing interfaces for all required standards (HD-SDI, 3G-SDI) plus SerDes (serializer-deserializer) in a single chip. Thus, the Virtex-5 FPGA helps reduce overall system costs while enabling advanced performance, including communication via a high-speed Ethernet interface.

NEC Display Solutions has commercialized three models in the DCP Cinema Projector, including: the NC3200S for screen sizes up to 32m in width, the NC2000C (20m) and NC1200C (12m)(2), with capability for the recent fast-growing 3D content. The three models are capable of projecting all existing 3D video content. The company has started shipments in stages.

“NEC Display Solutions is active in the digital cinema business in Japan and overseas, with DLP Cinema® Projectors as our core products,” says Atsushi Kuroda, head of projector development at NEC Display Solutions. “Sophisticated performance is required of projectors in this market segment, but since they are not mass-produced like consumer electronics products, we considered using FPGAs instead of ASICs right from the start, to achieve superior performance while keeping development costs down. A major factor that led us to select Xilinx FPGAs is that they offer a range of high-speed interfaces on a single chip, making superior performance possible at low cost.”

“We are delighted to be able to contribute toward 3D technology in the movie business as a result of NEC Display Solutions selecting Virtex-5 for its DLP Cinema® projectors,” added Sam Rogan, president and representative director of Xilinx K.K. “The Virtex-5 family has been highly rated in the industry, with sales exceeding $100 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2010–a record figure for an FPGA product. Xilinx FPGAs offer a number of features that customers require on a single chip and a platform that integrates development environments, allowing customers to concentrate on differentiating their products.”

NEC Display Solutions used Xilinx FPGAs from the prototype-making stage of the DLP Cinema® Projector, selecting the Virtex-5 LXT for volume production. The Virtex-5 LXT provides video interfaces with devices via four SDI I/O ports, gigabit Ethernet, and low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS); and high-speed interfaces compliant with several standards, including one for DDR2 memory. It uses the Xilinx Reference Design for the video process. Technical support provided by sales agent Paltek Corporation has also been well received.

Demand for DLP Cinema® Projectors is forecast to increase amid aggressive expansion of multiscreen cinema complexes in the movie business and outlook for strong growth of 3D content.

About Xilinx in Broadcast

Xilinx is the worldwide leader in programmable logic solutions offering a wide array of capabilities for the broadcast industry, ranging from video, audio, and network connectivity; real-time high definition video processing; and high-speed digital signal processing for transmission and modulation. These capabilities are delivered as part of Xilinx Targeted Design Platforms that enable developers to accelerate time to market and achieve greater innovation and differentiation of sophisticated broadcast systems. For more information on how to lower cost of ownership and lengthen time in market of broadcast products, visit http://www.xilinx.com/esp/broadcast.htm.

About Xilinx

Xilinx is the world’s leading provider of programmable platforms. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.

TOKYO and SAN JOSE, Calif., April 22 — Xilinx®, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) , today announced that NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. has adopted the Xilinx Virtex®-5 FPGA family for three models of its DLP Cinema® Projectors.

DLP Cinema® projectors comply with the U.S. Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI(1)) standard, including a host of security features, and can adapt to a wide range of input signals. The systems faithfully reproduce input sources, with both high-resolution and high-contrast requirements, incorporating Texas Instruments’ high-resolution 2K (2,048 × 1,080 dot) DLP Cinema® chips. The Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA family reduces the design cost of peripheral devices by providing interfaces for all required standards (HD-SDI, 3G-SDI) plus SerDes (serializer-deserializer) in a single chip. Thus, the Virtex-5 FPGA helps reduce overall system costs while enabling advanced performance, including communication via a high-speed Ethernet interface.

NEC Display Solutions has commercialized three models in the DCP Cinema Projector, including: the NC3200S for screen sizes up to 32m in width, the NC2000C (20m) and NC1200C (12m)(2), with capability for the recent fast-growing 3D content. The three models are capable of projecting all existing 3D video content. The company has started shipments in stages.

“NEC Display Solutions is active in the digital cinema business in Japan and overseas, with DLP Cinema® Projectors as our core products,” says Atsushi Kuroda, head of projector development at NEC Display Solutions. “Sophisticated performance is required of projectors in this market segment, but since they are not mass-produced like consumer electronics products, we considered using FPGAs instead of ASICs right from the start, to achieve superior performance while keeping development costs down. A major factor that led us to select Xilinx FPGAs is that they offer a range of high-speed interfaces on a single chip, making superior performance possible at low cost.”

“We are delighted to be able to contribute toward 3D technology in the movie business as a result of NEC Display Solutions selecting Virtex-5 for its DLP Cinema® projectors,” added Sam Rogan, president and representative director of Xilinx K.K. “The Virtex-5 family has been highly rated in the industry, with sales exceeding $100 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2010–a record figure for an FPGA product. Xilinx FPGAs offer a number of features that customers require on a single chip and a platform that integrates development environments, allowing customers to concentrate on differentiating their products.”

NEC Display Solutions used Xilinx FPGAs from the prototype-making stage of the DLP Cinema® Projector, selecting the Virtex-5 LXT for volume production. The Virtex-5 LXT provides video interfaces with devices via four SDI I/O ports, gigabit Ethernet, and low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS); and high-speed interfaces compliant with several standards, including one for DDR2 memory. It uses the Xilinx Reference Design for the video process. Technical support provided by sales agent Paltek Corporation has also been well received.

Demand for DLP Cinema® Projectors is forecast to increase amid aggressive expansion of multiscreen cinema complexes in the movie business and outlook for strong growth of 3D content.

About Xilinx in Broadcast

Xilinx is the worldwide leader in programmable logic solutions offering a wide array of capabilities for the broadcast industry, ranging from video, audio, and network connectivity; real-time high definition video processing; and high-speed digital signal processing for transmission and modulation. These capabilities are delivered as part of Xilinx Targeted Design Platforms that enable developers to accelerate time to market and achieve greater innovation and differentiation of sophisticated broadcast systems. For more information on how to lower cost of ownership and lengthen time in market of broadcast products, visit http://www.xilinx.com/esp/broadcast.htm.

About Xilinx

Xilinx is the world’s leading provider of programmable platforms. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.