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Xilinx Selects Yield Dynamics' Genesis™
Workflow Development Platform

Santa Clara, CA, June 5, 2003 – Yield Dynamics, Inc. announced today that Xilinx, Inc. (NasdaqNM:XLNX), the world's leading provider of programmable logic solutions, has purchased its Genesis Workflow development platform for custom yield management methodology development. Yield Dynamics and Xilinx have also collaborated on extending the workflow platform with additional value-driven capabilities for fabless semiconductor companies and outsourced manufacturing collaboration.

Xilinx purchased Yield Dynamics' Genesis Fabless software solution in 2000 to manage yields for various foundry production processes. The Workflow development platform enables Xilinx to create custom yield management analysis methodologies using a graphical programming environment and "drag and drop" interface. The workflows may be saved and run automatically at predefined times and intervals, and may embody complex linked event chains, all without requiring a single line of programming code to be written. Custom yield improvement methodologies which are often proprietary from customer to customer may therefore be easily configured within the Genesis yield platform, utilizing its rich library of pre-configured analysis engines, without resorting to complicated and costly internal software development efforts.

Michael Simmons, CPLD Yield Enhancement Tools Manager at Xilinx, commented, "Xilinx purchased Genesis for both interactive as well as automated use through its rich scripting programming language. By applying the yield enhancement tools, we have achieved automated monitoring and yield improvement of our outsourced manufacturing process. The addition of Workflow capability to our platform leverages our software investment by affording all of our engineers the ability to develop custom yield analysis flows with minimal effort, allowing us to effectively adapt our yield enhancement efforts to new products and evolving foundry production processes in a timely fashion."

According to Dr. Jonathan Buckheit, CEO of Yield Dynamics, "As the world's leading fabless programmable logic company, Xilinx's early adoption of our Genesis Fabless platform is a strong testament to the value our product delivers. By collaborating with Xilinx on this latest Workflow purchase, along with our ongoing development partnerships with the world's foremost semiconductor foundries, we are able to deliver a true yield analysis platform for fabless/foundry commerce models, which in addition to pre-configured turnkey analysis engines, offers highly customizable analysis and collaboration methodology delivery in a system broadly accessible by fabless and foundry engineers."

About Yield Dynamics

Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., Yield Dynamics, Inc. ("YDI") is the technology leader in enterprise yield management and advanced process control for the semiconductor industry. YDI provides the most comprehensive set of software tools available, enabling users to convert large amounts of data into useful information that allows them to ramp products rapidly and achieve higher yields. Additional information about Yield Dynamics can be found at http://www.ydyn.com or by calling (408) 330-9320.

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Xilinx Selects Yield Dynamics' Genesis™ Workflow Development Platform

Xilinx Selects Yield Dynamics' Genesis™
Workflow Development Platform