Xilinx Announces Membership In MPEG-4 Industry Forum
SAN JOSE, CA--(INTERNET WIRE)--Jan 08, 2002-- Xilinx Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX - news) today announced its membership in the MPEG-4 Industry Forum (M4IF), a non-profit organization chartered with furthering the adoption of the MPEG-4 standard and establishing it as the standard among application developers, service providers, content creators and end-users. One of the key activities of the M4IF organization is to promote the MPEG-4 standard and serves as a single point of information on MPEG-4 technology, products and services. M4IF currently has over 100 members from a wide range of industries such as consumer electronics, computer, telecommunications and research institutions worldwide.
"Xilinx membership strengthens and illustrates the diversity of M4IF, which consists of many different parties that together will make MPEG-4 a successful standard for multimedia services," said Rob Koenen, president M4IF. "It is a pleasure to have Xilinx as a member of the MPEG-4 Industry Forum."
"Our membership in the M4IF highlights our close involvement in the key digital video standard committees such as MPEG-4, which allows us to provide insights and solutions to help accelerate time-to-market for digital video applications," said Robert Bielby, senior director of Strategic Solutions Marketing at Xilinx. "Our highly successful eSP portal, which contains tutorials on a wide range of digital video technologies including MPEG-4, enables designers to accelerate their design time and thus stay ahead of the competition."
Xilinx eSP for Digital Video Applications
In addition to offering a wide range of solutions that accelerate time-to-market in various applications, Xilinx offers the industry's only web portal dedicated to accelerating product development for digital convergence products. Xilinx eSP (www.xilinx.com/esp) now features a comprehensive resource dedicated to the development of digital video technologies. Solutions found on the site include reference designs, technology tutorials, system block diagrams, IP Cores and result from collaboration with a wide range of industry leaders.
About M4IF
M4IF is open to all parties that support the goal of M4IF, the promotion of the MPEG-4 Standard, against a yearly fee of 3000 USD. M4IF carries out activities that are beyond of the scope of the ISO/IEC MPEG work group, which created the MPEG-4 standard. M4IF is chartered with promoting the MPEG-4 standard, serving as a single point of information on MPEG-4 technology, products and services, as well as initiating discussions leading to the potential establishment of patent pools outside of M4IF. M4IF also organizes MPEG-4 exhibitions and tutorials.
M4IF currently has over 100 members. For more information, visit the MPEG-4 Industry Forum web site at www.m4if.org
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the leading supplier of complete programmable logic solutions, including advanced integrated circuits, software design tools, predefined system functions delivered as cores, and unparalleled field engineering support. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Xilinx invented the field programmable gate array (FPGA) and fulfills more than half of the world demand for these devices today. Xilinx solutions enable customers to reduce significantly the time required to develop products for the computer, peripheral, telecommunications, networking, industrial control, instrumentation, aerospace, defense, and low-power portable and consumer markets. For more information, visit the Xilinx web site at www.xilinx.com.
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Contact:
Tamara Snowden
Xilinx, Inc
408-879-6146
tamara.snowden@xilinx.com
Lynne Apodaca
MPEG-4 Industry Forum
925-275-6653
lapodaca@m4if.org |
