Xilinx, Inc. engages in the design, development, and marketing of programmable logic solutions. Its solutions include advanced integrated circuits, software design tools, predefined system functions are delivered as intellectual property cores, design services, customer training, field engineering, and technical support services. The company’s programmable logic devices include field programmable gate arrays and complex programmable logic devices that customers program to perform desired logic functions. The company’s products are used by electronic equipment manufacturers in industrial, consumer, automotive, and data processing markets. It also provides Xilinx ISE, an integrated software environment, integrates with a range of third-party electronic design automation software offerings; solutions for the areas of DSP and embedded processing for solving system level problems of non-traditional users, such as system architects and software engineers; programmable and in-system programmable storage devices to configure Xilinx FPGAs; and education, design, and support services. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and electronic components distributors through independent domestic and foreign distributors, direct sales, network of independent sales representative firms, and a direct sales management organization in North America, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and Japan. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
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