Xilinx was founded in 1984 by Ross Freeman, Bernard Vonderschmitt, and James V Barnett II. Xilinx invented the field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Xilinx sells a broad range of FPGAs, complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs), design tools, intellectual property and reference designs. On October 27, 2020, AMD reached an agreement to acquire Xilinx in a stock-swap deal, valuing the company at $35 billion. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2021. 

Xilinx develops highly flexible and adaptive processing platforms that enable rapid innovation across a variety of technologies—from the endpoint to the edge to the cloud. Xilinx is the inventor of the FPGA, hardware programmable SoCs, and the ACAP, designed to deliver the most dynamic processor technology in the industry.

The adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP) Versal architecture was designed to enable all types of developers to accelerate their whole application with disruptive performance through optimized hardware and software, providing a solution that adaptable faster than the pace of silicon design cycles.

The Xilinx UltraScale™ architecture delivers unprecedented levels of integration and capability while delivering ASIC-class system level performance for the most demanding applications requiring massive I/O & memory bandwidth, massive data flow, DSP, and packet processing performance. Our break-out portfolio also includes the industry's only hardware programmable homogeneous and heterogeneous 3D ICs with the highest bandwidth and system integration. In addition, our hardware, software, and I/O programmable SoC platform offers the flexibility and scalability of an FPGA combined with ASIC-like performance and power and the ease of use of an ASSP.

Industry’s First ACAP: Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform

Adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP) is a fully software-programmable, heterogeneous compute platform that combines Scalar Engines, Adaptable Engines, and intelligent AI and DSP Engines to enable a disruptive increase in compute for applications in data center, wireless networking, automotive driver assist, and wired communications. This high-performance architecture is designed to enable all types of developers - software engineers, hardware engineers, and data scientists — to accelerate their entire application with optimized hardware and software.

Industry Leading FPGAs

Xilinx offers a comprehensive multi-node portfolio to address requirements across a wide set of applications. Whether you are designing a state-of-the art, high-performance networking application requiring the highest capacity, bandwidth, and performance, or looking for a low-cost, small footprint FPGA to take your software-defined technology to the next level, Xilinx FPGAs and 3D ICs provide you with system integration while optimizing for performance/watt.

Programmable SoCs, MPSoCs, and RFSoCs: Unmatched Performance and Power

Xilinx’s SoC portfolio integrates the software programmability of a processor with the hardware programmability of an FPGA, providing you with unrivaled levels of system performance, flexibility, and scalability. The portfolio gives your designs overall system benefits of power reduction and lower cost with fast time to market.

Programmable 3D ICs: Highest Bandwidth and Integration

Xilinx homogeneous and heterogeneous 3D ICs deliver the highest logic density, bandwidth, and on-chip resources in the industry, breaking new ground in system-level integration. Xilinx UltraScale 3D ICs provide unprecedented levels of system integration, performance, bandwidth, and capability.

Cost-Optimized Portfolio

The Xilinx cost-optimized portfolio is the broadest in the industry, comprising four families that are optimized for specific capabilities:

Spartan®-6 FPGAs for I/O optimization

Spartan-7 FPGAs for I/O optimization with the highest performance-per-watt

Artix®-7 FPGAs for transceiver optimization and highest DSP bandwidth

Zynq®-7000 programmable SoCs for system optimization with scalable processor integration

Artix UltraScale+™ FPGAs for high I/O bandwidth and DSP compute

Management Team - Victor Peng: President and Chief Executive Officer

Victor Peng is President and Chief Executive Officer of Xilinx, Inc., and serves on the Board of Directors. Peng has more than 30 years of experience defining and delivering leadership technologies across FPGAs, SoCs, GPUs, high-performance microprocessors and chip sets, and microprocessor IP products.

Since becoming CEO of Xilinx in February of 2018, Peng has rolled out plans for a transformation to address new markets with new technology, underpinned by the Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP). In his previous role as Chief Operating Officer, Peng managed Global Sales, Product and Vertical Marketing, Product Development, and Global Operations and Quality. Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Products, where he led the definition, development, and product marketing of the company’s portfolio of products and differentiated technologies – resulting in three consecutive generations of core product leadership and significant industry breakouts in integration and programming.

Peng previously served as Corporate Vice President of the graphics products group (GPG) silicon engineering with AMD and was a leader for AMD's central silicon engineering team supporting graphics, console game products, CPU chipset and consumer business units. Prior to that, Peng held executive and engineering leadership roles at TZero Technologies, MIPS Technologies, SGI and Digital Equipment Corp.

Peng holds four U.S. patents and serves on the Board of Directors of the Semiconductor Industry Association and KLA Corporation, a developer of industry-leading equipment and services for electronics industry. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master’s degree, also in electrical engineering, from Cornell University.