Our Company

Semiconductor Industry Leader

Xilinx is the world’s leading provider of programmable platforms, with $1.7B in revenues in 2009 and more than 50 percent market share in the programmable logic device (PLD) segment of the semiconductor industry.

Xilinx programmable chips are the innovation platform of choice for today’s leading companies for the design of tens of thousands of products that improve the quality of our everyday lives. Due to their inherent flexibility, Xilinx award-winning programmable solutions – silicon, software, IP, evaluation kits and reference designs – are used by more than 20,000 customers to:

• Deliver innovative new products to market in a matter of weeks
• Drastically reduce research and development costs
• Change or upgrade end product features and functions “on the fly” to meet new market demands and adapt to changing industry standards

Facts At-a-Glance

• Founded 1984
• ~3,000 employees worldwide
• 20,000 customers worldwide
• 2,000+ patents
• Inventor of the field programmable gate array (FPGA)
• Pioneer of fabless manufacturing model
• Headquarters in San Jose, Dublin and Singapore
• Publicly traded company since 1990 (NASDAQ: XLNX)
• $1.7B in revenues in calendar year 2009

Programmability: An Imperative for Today’s Leading Global Electronics Companies

More than at any other time, global economics favor programmable chips over costly application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and application-specific standard products (ASSPs). In today’s challenging economic climate, programmable platforms have become strategically essential for world-class system companies to effectively compete. The costs and risks associated with application-specific devices can only be justified for a short list of ultra-high volume commodity products.

Programmable platforms have become the only viable means for today’s companies to meet increasingly stringent product requirements – cost, power, performance, and density – in a business environment characterized by spiraling complexity, shrinking market windows, fickle market demands, capped engineering budgets, escalating ASIC and ASSP non-recurring engineering costs, and increased risk.

For Xilinx, the programmable imperative represents a two-fold commitment. First, to increase performance, densities and system-level functionality, while driving down cost and power consumption, at each manufacturing process node with every new generation of FPGAs. Secondly, to provide simpler, smarter programmable platforms and design methodologies that free up engineers to focus on end product innovation and differentiation.

Products and Services

In 2009, Xilinx introduced the Virtex®-6 family of 40nm FPGAs for compute intensive, high-speed, high-density SoC applications, and the Spartan®-6 family of 45nm FPGAs for applications where size, power, and cost are key considerations.

Each family serves as the foundation for programmable targeted design platforms that enable software and hardware designers alike to leverage open standards, common design methodologies, development tools, and run-time platforms. Xilinx targeted design platforms integrate five key elements, delivered by Xilinx and its robust network of ecosystem partners, and supported by field applications engineering and design services teams with in-depth expertise in domain and market-specific applications.

• Xilinx Virtex®-6 and Spartan®-6 FPGAs
• Design environments supporting and integrating industry-proven methodologies
• Scalable boards and kits adopting the industry standard FPGA mezzanine connector (FMC)
• Socketable IP cores
• Robust reference designs

Markets Served

Xilinx solutions enable the world’s most innovative applications throughout a broad set of end markets:

• Aerospace/Defense
• Automotive
• Broadcast
• Consumer
• Data Process/Storage
• Industrial/Scientific/Medical (ISM)
• Wired
• Wireless

A Legacy of Leadership and Innovation

Since its founding more than 25 years ago, Xilinx has driven wave after wave of innovation in the semiconductor industry, pioneering the fabless manufacturing model, inventing the FPGA, and building a company based upon a core set of values that have stood the test of time.  Xilinx has been recognized worldwide for its business, market and technology leadership – among the most recent awards and certifications the company has earned are:

Customer Satisfaction & Quality Awards

• Brocade, Quality Excellence Award, 2009
• General Dynamics, Strategic Supplier Award, 2008
• Harmon Becker, Top 10 Percent Semiconductor Supplier Award, 2008
• Huawei Core Partner & Most Valued Supplier Awards, 2008, Gold Supplier Award, 2009
• Motorola, Preferred Supplier Award, 2009
• Sony, Quality Award, 2008
• Spirent Supplier of the Year, 2008
• Tellabs, Perfect 20/20 Quality Score, 2008
• ZTE Best Supplier Award, 2008-2009

Company Awards

• National Inventors Hall of Fame Induction, Invention of FPGA (Founder Ross Freeman), 2009
• Most Respected Public Fabless Company, Global Semiconductor Alliance, 2008
• 100 Best Corporate Citizens, CRO/Business Ethics Magazine, 2007-2009
• “25 Microchips that Shook the World” – Invention of FPGA, IEEE Spectrum, 2009
• Green Mark Platinum Award - Asia Pacific HQ, Singapore Ministry of National Development, 2007
• LEED Green Building Certification - Xilinx North America HQ, US Green Building Council, 2007

Product & Technology Awards

• Best FPGA Product Award – Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 Targeted Design Platforms, China Electronics News, 2009
• Innovation of the Year, Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 Targeted Design Platforms, EDN Magazine China, 2009
• Innovative Low Power Design Award – Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGA Platforms, Chinese Institute of Electronics, 2009
• Influential Embedded Systems Award, Best New Concept – Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 Targeted Design Platforms, EEPW, 2009
• DesignVision Award – Virtex-5 TXT, International Engineering Consortium, DesignCon 2009
• ALICE Industrial Collaboration Award, CERN, 2008
• Best Product of the Year & Leading Product of the Year – Virtex-5 FXT FPGA Platform and ISE 10.1 Design Tools, EDN Magazine China, 2008
• Editor's Choice Award - Spartan-3A FPGA, Portable Design Magazine, 2008
• Top 10 China Influential Embedded Systems Award - Virtex-5 FPGAs, EEPW China, 2007
• Digital IC Product of the Year - Virtex-5 LXT FPGAs, EDN China, 2007
• Semiconductor Product of the Year - Virtex-5 LXT FPGA Platform, Elektra Awards, 2007
• Best of 2007 EDA/FPGA Tool – ISE 9.1i Design Tools, Electronic Design, 2007
• Design Vision Award - PlanAhead 8.2 Software, International Engineering Consortium, DesignCon 2007
• Product & Innovation of the Year - Virtex-5 FPGA, EDN Magazine, 2007
• Design Team of the Year - Virtex-5 FPGA Design Team, EDN Magazine, 2007
• Product of the Year - Virtex-5 FPGA Platform, EE Times China, 2007
• Semiconductor Product of the Year, Virtex-5 LXT FPGA Platform, Elektra Awards, 2007
• Most Innovative Product of the Year - Virtex-5 FPGA, Electronique Magazine, 2007

Quality Certifications

• OHSAS 18001 International Health & Safety Certification – San Jose, Dublin, Singapore, certified since 2008
• TS16949 International Automotive Quality System Specification – Hyderabad, India, certified since 2008
• ISO9001 Quality Management System – San Jose; original certification in 1995
• ISO9001:2000 Quality Management System – Xilinx Design Services, Dublin, San Jose, Colorado, and Dallas; certified since 2005
• ISO9001:2000 Quality Management System – Colorado; certified since 2004
• ISO/TS 16949:2002 Quality Management System – San Jose, Dublin, Singapore, Albuquerque, Hyderabad; certified since 2005
• ISO9001:2000 /TL 9000 Quality Management System – San Jose, Dublin, Singapore, Albuquerque; certified since 2004
• ISO14001:2004 Environmental Management System – San Jose, Dublin, Singapore; certified since 2004
• OHSAS 18001:2007 International Health & Safety Certification – San Jose, Dublin, Singapore; certified since 2008