Xilinx, Inc. designs, develops, and markets programmable platforms worldwide. Its programmable platforms include integrated circuits in the form of programmable logic devices (PLDs); software design tools; targeted reference designs; printed circuit boards; and predefined system functions delivered as intellectual property cores. The company’s PLDs comprise field programmable gate arrays, complex programmable logic devices, and extensible processing platforms, which perform logic functions. It also provides design services, customer training, field engineering, and technical support. The company offers its products to electronic equipment manufacturers in end markets, such as wired and wireless communications, industrial, scientific and medical, aerospace and defense, audio, video and broadcast, consumer, automotive, and data processing. Xilinx, Inc. sells its products through independent distributors, as well as through a network of independent sales representative firms and a direct sales management organization. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

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