Xilinx

Xilinx, Inc. is an American technology company that designs and markets programmable logic devices and related software. The company is known for pioneering field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and related technologies, including CPLDs and Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platforms (ACAPs). Since 2022, Xilinx has operated as a subsidiary of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

Founded in 1984 by Ross Freeman and Bernard Vescovi in San Jose, California, Xilinx introduced the first commercially viable FPGA in the mid-1980s and established a broad line of programmable logic products. Over the years, the company expanded to include multiple FPGA families, such as Spartan, Artix, Kintex, Virtex, and Zynq devices, with the Versal line representing its adaptive compute platforms.

Xilinx devices are designed to be programmed after fabrication to implement a wide range of digital logic, signal processing, and compute tasks. The company provides design software including the Vivado Design Suite for HDL-based development and the Vitis unified software platform for software and accelerator development, along with a catalog of IP cores and tools for high-level synthesis.

Applications span communications infrastructure, data centers, automotive and industrial automation, aerospace and defense, and consumer electronics, where the reconfigurable nature of FPGAs and ACAPs enables hardware acceleration, rapid prototyping, and post-deployment updates.

Headquartered in San Jose, Xilinx operates globally with development and sales offices. In October 2020, AMD announced its intention to acquire Xilinx for $35 billion; the acquisition closed in February 2022, and Xilinx now operates as an AMD subsidiary with its brands and product lines continuing under AMD.