Company profile: Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Xilinx invented the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and built the FPGA ecosystem, giving it deep technology accumulation and market influence in programmable logic. Market position: the leader in complete programmable logic solutions, holding more than half of the market.
Application areas
- Communications: in 5G wireless, Xilinx devices handle base-station signal processing, data transfer and network optimisation, helping operators deliver fast, stable connections.
- Data centres: FPGAs serve as accelerator cards that add computing power while improving efficiency and reducing energy consumption.
- Automotive electronics: in autonomous and assisted driving they process camera and radar sensor data for object detection, recognition and path planning.
- Industrial control: motion control, process monitoring and data acquisition on automated production lines, improving production efficiency and quality.
- Consumer electronics: digital video equipment, computer peripherals and other products requiring complex logic functions and signal processing.
Product categories
- FPGA families: Spartan for cost-optimised designs, Artix UltraScale+ for mobile and embedded, Kintex UltraScale+ balancing performance and cost, and Virtex UltraScale+ for the highest performance.
- SoC families: the Zynq 7000 SoC combines software programmability of ARM processors with hardware programmability of the FPGA; Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC devices provide 64-bit processor scalability combining real-time control with software and hardware engines.
- CPLD families: for example CoolRunner II CPLD with single-chip instant-on non-volatile memory technology, offering high performance and low power consumption.
