Tri-Star Design, Inc. Becomes Member of Elite Xilinx Alliance Program

HOPKINTON, Mass.-- October 25, 2010 -- Tri-Star Design, Inc. announced today that they have become Certified Member of the Xilinx Alliance Program. To achieve certification, Tri-Star Design, Inc. demonstrated qualified expertise on the latest Xilinx devices and implementation techniques on Xilinx programmable platforms.

As part of this elite group, Tri-Star Design, Inc. has gone through a stringent certification process to ensure that their products and services are optimized to streamline customer product development cycles while minimizing risk.

Some of the certification requirements include: contributing to a broad selection of industry-standard solutions dedicated for use with Xilinx programmable logic; members that supply products need to have the staffing and infrastructure to support multiple customers from differing geographies at one time; established track record of successful business for at least two years including completed transactions with users of Xilinx devices; the company must have worked together with at least one Xilinx direct FAE, sales representative, or Xilinx–dedicated distributor FAE and the company's supporting products and/or services should at least assist Xilinx to penetrate a new application, market segment, or geography.

Xilinx has a worldwide ecosystem of qualified companies through the Xilinx Alliance Program to help mutual customers develop their products faster and with confidence on Targeted Design Platforms. Alliance Member companies include: FPGA IP providers, EDA vendors, Embedded Software providers, System Integrators, and Hardware suppliers.

The Xilinx Alliance Program members contribute to a broad selection of industry-standard solutions dedicated for use with Xilinx programmable logic.

For more information on Tri-Star Design, Inc., please go to www.tristardes.com.

About Tri-Star Design, Inc.

Tri-Star Design was founded in 1991 and has been providing technical design services to the high technology communities across North America. With our offices located in New England, our design staff consists of engineers with diverse backgrounds who hail from some of the best research and development facilities in the area.