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LEESBURG, VA – October 17, 2006 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the defense and aerospace market, has announced that it will support the new Xilinx (NASDAQ: XLNX) Virtex™-5 LXT field programmable gate array (FPGA) family with a range of board level products based on the new components.
Curtiss-Wright is one of a select group of early access Xilinx customers to evaluate the newest platform of Virtex-5 FPGAs. The company is currently in development on a range of new products that will deploy the recently announced Virtex-5 LXT components in embedded Military and aerospace multicomputing applications.
“Curtiss-Wright's customers require ever-increasing amounts of processing power with ever-tighter constraints on size, weight, and power,” said Lynn Patterson , vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright's Modular Solutions group. “The new Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT FPGAs with the industry's lowest power transceivers and built-in PCI Express® blocks are critical to meeting our customer's demanding requirements in a wide variety of application spaces.”
“Curtiss-Wright's stature as a leading vendor of rugged COTS boards and systems for the embedded military market makes it an ideal early access customer for the Virtex-5 LXT,” said Per Holmberg, director of Programmable Digital Systems Marketing at Xilinx. “The Virtex-5 LXT FPGA family directly addresses the unique requirements for high performance and low-power demanded by harsh environment defense and aerospace applications.”
Curtiss-Wright's early adoption of Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT FPGAs will enable its customers to rapidly field new high performance solutions with reduced power consumption. Numerous next-generation applications can benefit from these FPGAs' advanced features which include larger gate-count components, DSP48E slices, lower power consumption, GTP serial channels and built-in PCI Express end point blocks.
The company's new Virtex-5 LXT-based boards will typically be deployed in heterogeneous systems along with digital signal processing (DSP) and general purpose processing elements in a range of commercial and rugged environments. The new FPGAs' support for low-power serial connectivity, including a built-in PCI Express block, will ease and speed the integration of such systems.
Examples of target defense and aerospace applications for which the Virtex-5 LXT is ideal include demanding image and signal processing problems such as Radar, signal intelligence, software defined radio, and real-time imaging.
For editorial information regarding Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing products or services, contact John Wranovics, Director of Public Relations, Curtiss-Wright, Tel: (925) 640-6402; email. jwranovics@curtisswright.com . Web site: www.cwcembedded.com.
Sales inquiries: Please forward all Sales and reader service inquiries to Jerri-Lynne Charbonneau, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, Tel: (613) 254-5112; Fax: (613) 599-7777; e-mail: sales@cwcembedded.com.
About Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing is the industry's most comprehensive and experienced single source for embedded solutions, ranging from Processing, Subsystems, Data Communication, DSP, and Video & Graphics to the most advanced board level components and fully integrated custom systems. The Embedded Computing group serves the defense, aerospace, commercial and industrial markets and is part of Curtiss-Wright Controls Inc. For more information about Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing visit www.cwcembedded.com.
About Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc.
Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Curtiss-Wright Controls is the motion control segment of Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW). With manufacturing facilities around the world, Curtiss-Wright Controls is a leading technology-based organization providing niche motion control products, subsystems and services internationally for the aerospace and defense markets. For more information, visit www.cwcontrols.com.
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