Xilinx Corporate Backgrounder
Xilinx Corporate Backgrounder
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Introduction<br />
<strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Backgrounder</strong><br />
www.xilinx.com<br />
March 2002<br />
<strong>Xilinx</strong> is the world’s leading supplier of complete programmable logic solutions. <strong>Xilinx</strong><br />
develops, manufactures, and markets a broad line of advanced integrated circuits, software<br />
design tools and intellectual property. Customers use the automated tools and intellectual<br />
property—predefined system-level functions delivered as software cores—from <strong>Xilinx</strong> and its<br />
partners to program the chips to perform custom logic operations.<br />
<strong>Xilinx</strong> programmable logic solutions help minimize risks for manufacturers of electronic<br />
equipment by shortening the time required to develop and bring new products to market.<br />
Customers can design and verify their unique circuits in <strong>Xilinx</strong> programmable devices much<br />
faster than they can by using traditional methods where the logic circuits are fixed once the chip<br />
is manufactured. Moreover, because <strong>Xilinx</strong> devices are standard parts that are ready to be<br />
programmed, customers are not required to wait for prototypes or pay large up-front engineering<br />
costs, which is the case for fixed-logic chips. <strong>Xilinx</strong> products are used in a wide array of digital<br />
electronic applications ranging from wireless phone bases stations to DVD players.<br />
<strong>Xilinx</strong> also is actively developing breakthrough technology that will enable systems that use<br />
<strong>Xilinx</strong> chips to be upgraded remotely over any kind of network—including the Internet—even<br />
after the equipment has been shipped to a customer. Such field upgradable systems would allow<br />
equipment manufacturers to add new features and capabilities remotely to installed systems, or<br />
repair problems, without having to physically exchange hardware.<br />
<strong>Xilinx</strong> has more than 7,000 customers worldwide, including Alcatel, Cisco Systems, EMC,<br />
Ericsson, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Nortel,<br />
Samsung, Siemens, Sony, Sun Microsystems and Toshiba.<br />
<strong>Xilinx</strong> was founded in 1984 to pioneer a revolutionary new technology, the field programmable<br />
gate array (FPGA), and shipped its first commercial product in 1985. Today <strong>Xilinx</strong> fulfills more<br />
than half the world demand for FPGAs. The <strong>Xilinx</strong> also markets complex programmable logic<br />
devices (CPLDs), which for some applications are faster than FPGAs but have fewer logic<br />
resources.<br />
Headquartered in San Jose, California, <strong>Xilinx</strong> is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: XLNX)<br />
with approximately 2,700 employees. Revenue for the latest fiscal year ending March 31, 2001,<br />
was $1.65 billion, up 65 percent from the previous year, while net income was $382 million, up<br />
45 percent from the prior year. Market researcher Dataquest currently ranks <strong>Xilinx</strong> as the fifth<br />
largest supplier of applications specific integrated circuits (ASICs) in the world.<br />
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<strong>Xilinx</strong> is widely recognized today as one of best managed and most financially sound high<br />
technology companies in the semiconductor industry. In 2001, BusinessWeek ranked <strong>Xilinx</strong> 17th<br />
in its list of the 50 best performing companies on the Standard and Poor’s S&P 500 Index.<br />
FORTUNE also added <strong>Xilinx</strong> to the magazine’s latest list of the top 100 companies to work for,<br />
while Forbes magazine included <strong>Xilinx</strong> in its list of America’s 400 best big companies. Also in<br />
2001, Business Ethics recognized <strong>Xilinx</strong> in the magazine’s 2001 list, The 100 Best <strong>Corporate</strong><br />
Citizens.<br />
The Market<br />
At the high end of the market, FPGAs are being used increasingly as replacements for fixedlogic<br />
ASIC designs done using gate array or standard cell technologies. At the low-end market,<br />
more and more customers are switching from older programmable array logic (PAL) devices to<br />
CPLDs to consolidate designs into fewer components.<br />
About two-thirds of <strong>Xilinx</strong> revenue comes from the communications market, which is<br />
characterized by last minute design modifications and rapidly changing standards. <strong>Xilinx</strong> chips<br />
help to power routers, hubs, network adapter cards, telephone handsets, wireless base stations,<br />
cable and DSL modems, line testers and central office switches. Manufacturers of data<br />
processing equipment – workstations, storage area networks, servers, printers and scanners, for<br />
example – account for another 20 percent of <strong>Xilinx</strong> revenue. The company also sells its products<br />
to manufacturers of consumer electronics, industrial control, instrumentation, defense and<br />
aerospace equipment.<br />
Operations<br />
As a “fabless” supplier, <strong>Xilinx</strong> partners with leading semiconductor manufacturers such as IBM<br />
Microelectronics in the U.S., UMC in Taiwan, and Seiko Epson in Japan. This strategy allows<br />
<strong>Xilinx</strong> to focus on designing new product architectures, software tools and intellectual property<br />
while having access to the most advanced semiconductor process technologies. Today <strong>Xilinx</strong> is<br />
producing programmable logic devices on state-of-the-art 0.15-micron technology that uses the<br />
latest copper process, and the company is working on the next generation 0.13-micron<br />
technology.<br />
<strong>Xilinx</strong> has manufacturing operations in San Jose and Dublin, Ireland, where product design,<br />
software development, final testing and quality analysis takes place. <strong>Xilinx</strong> also has a major<br />
facility in Longmont, Colorado, where much of the company’s software development takes<br />
place. A facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is dedicated to the development of the company's<br />
low power CoolRunner line of CPLDs as well as intellectual property for FPGAs. Other offices<br />
are located in Raleigh, North Carolina, Columbia, Maryland; Austin, Texas; Minneapolis,<br />
Minnesota; Edinburgh, Scotland; Grenoble, France; and Toronto, Canada.<br />
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Industry Leading ICs<br />
Customer requirements for logic solutions that provide higher speeds, greater logic density and<br />
integrated system-level functions continue to drive the demand for <strong>Xilinx</strong> products. The<br />
company currently offers several series of FPGAs and CPLDs that are tailored to meet the<br />
requirements of different applications. Full details on all <strong>Xilinx</strong> products are available on the<br />
web at www.xilinx.com.<br />
FPGAs<br />
Virtex The <strong>Xilinx</strong> Virtex® series has redefined programmable logic by expanding the traditional<br />
capabilities of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to include a powerful set of features that<br />
address board level problems for high performance system designs. Virtex FPGAs were the first<br />
programmable logic devices to provide one million system gates. With the Virtex series, digital<br />
designers for the first time can use an FPGA to perform not only familiar logic functions, but<br />
also tasks that were formerly handled at the board level by separate, dedicated parts. The Virtex<br />
series eliminates the need for components such as phase lock loops, voltage translation buffers,<br />
resistors and memory. This high level of integration allows designers to reduce overall system<br />
power requirements, cut costs, and save board space.<br />
The Virtex series has numerous built-in features to solve challenges that designers face<br />
throughout the system. Broad capability exists in Virtex FPGAs for chip-to-chip<br />
communications through programmable support for the latest I/O standards; clock signal<br />
synchronization on the FPGA and on the board; a memory hierarchy to manage fast access to<br />
RAM on and off chip; and support for digital signal processing functions.<br />
Virtex technology provides the foundation for a scalable platform of FPGAs that are produced<br />
using a leading-edge 0.18-micron, six-layer metal process. Densities for Virtex FPGAs range<br />
from 50,000 to 10 million system gates.<br />
The newest Virtex-II family offers designers even wider capability for managing issues such as<br />
signal integrity, system timing, electro-magnetic interference, and design security. Virtex-II<br />
FPGAs also feature two key technologies for embedding IP. The <strong>Xilinx</strong> IP Immersion<br />
technology allows hard IP cores to be diffused at any coordinate within the Virtex fabric while<br />
maintaining smooth integration with the surrounding array. The Active Interconnect<br />
technology offers actively driven routing channels that ensure hard and soft IP cores maintain<br />
predictable, very high performance rates, independent of their location within the array.<br />
Platform FPGAs<br />
The Virtex-II devices mark the first embodiment of Platform FPGAs—a flexible solution that<br />
allows a wide variety of hard and soft IP cores to be integrated on a single device whose<br />
hardware and firmware can be upgraded at any time. The programmability of the architecture<br />
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educes system development time yet enables a single Platform FPGA to be targeted at multiple<br />
applications. <strong>Xilinx</strong> Platform FPGAs based on the Virtex-II family will support embedded,<br />
hardwired processors, soft IP processors, high performance DSP capability, and gigabit-plus<br />
serial I/O speeds.<br />
Spartan <strong>Xilinx</strong> Spartan® FPGAs are ideal for low-cost, high volume applications and are<br />
targeted as replacements for fixed-logic gate arrays and for application specific standard products<br />
(ASSP) products such as bus interface chip sets. Spartan FPGAs can now replace complex ASSP<br />
functions such as a MIPS-PCI bridge, Viterbi-Reed Solomon decoders, and quad data rate RAM<br />
(QDR) memory controllers. In these applications, the use of efficient intellectual property, or<br />
cores, allows the latest Spartan-II FPGA to be more economical than the currently available<br />
ASSP solutions. For example, the 100,000-system gate XC2S100 FPGA, a member of the<br />
latest Spartan-II family, costs less than $10 for high volume orders.<br />
The Spartan-II family offers some of the most advanced FPGA technologies available today,<br />
including programmable support for multiple I/O standards (including 5V tolerance), on-chip<br />
block RAM and digital delay lock loops for both chip-level and board-level clock management.<br />
In addition, the Spartan-II devices provide superior value by eliminating the need for many<br />
simple ASSPs such as phase lock loops, FIFOs, I/O translators and system bus drivers that in the<br />
past have been necessary to complete a system design.<br />
Operating at 2.5 volts, the Spartan-II FPGAs address a wider range of cost sensitive products<br />
such as telephone handsets, laptop PCs, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other high volume<br />
consumer electronics applications such as PC add-on cards, digital modems, DVD players,<br />
portable audio (such as MP3), on-demand TV recorders and set-top boxes.<br />
Spartan-II FPGAs are produced on an advanced 0.18 micron, six-layer metal process. The new<br />
family consists of five devices ranging in density from 15,000 to 150,000 system gates, tripling<br />
the density of earlier 3.3-volt Spartan-XL and 5-volt Spartan offerings.<br />
CPLDs<br />
The CoolRunner® CPLDs are the first to combine very low power with high speed, high<br />
density, and high I/O counts in a single device. CoolRunner CPLDs feature Fast Zero Power<br />
technology, allowing the devices to draw virtually no power in standby mode, making them ideal<br />
for the fast growing market for battery operated portable electronic equipment such as laptop<br />
PCs, telephone handsets, personal digital assistants and electronic games. These CPLDs also use<br />
far less dynamic power during actual operation compared to conventional CPLDs, an important<br />
feature for high performance, heat sensitive equipment such as telecom switches, video<br />
conferencing systems, simulators, high end testers and emulators. The CoolRunner series<br />
includes the largest CPLD available to date, the CoolRunner XCR3960 device with 960<br />
macrocells. The entire series is available in 3.3-volt and 5-volt versions with density ranges<br />
beginning at 32 macrocells. The offering also includes 3.3-volt and 5-volt 22V10 CoolRunner<br />
devices.<br />
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XC9500 The low-cost XC9500 family of <strong>Xilinx</strong> CPLDs, ranging in density from 36 to 288<br />
macrocells and available in 5-volt, 3.3-volt and soon 2.5-volt versions, supports ISP, or insystem<br />
programming, allowing manufacturers to perform unlimited design iterations during the<br />
prototyping phase, extensive system in-board debugging, program and test during<br />
manufacturing, and field upgrades. Based on advanced flash memory technology, the XC9500<br />
family provides fast, guaranteed timing, superior pin locking, a full JTAG compliant interface,<br />
and 10,000 programming cycles.<br />
<strong>Xilinx</strong> Internet-enabled Software Solutions<br />
At <strong>Xilinx</strong>, software tools are a key part of the company’s programmable logic solutions. Since its<br />
inception, <strong>Xilinx</strong> has shipped more than 60,000 development systems to customers worldwide.<br />
Today <strong>Xilinx</strong> offers several lines of tools that are Internet-enabled. These tools allow designers<br />
instant and direct access to the technical support area of the <strong>Xilinx</strong> Web site. <strong>Xilinx</strong> design tools<br />
also are the fastest in the industry. With the latest release of the company’s Integrated Software<br />
Environment (ISE) version 4.1i tools, customers can compile FPGA designs at a rate of 100,000<br />
gates per minute.<br />
Alliance Series Through its Alliance Series software, <strong>Xilinx</strong> has chosen an open systems<br />
approach that allows customers to use familiar front-end design creation, synthesis and<br />
verification tools from leading independent electronic design automation (EDA) software<br />
developers. Those include Aldec, Cadence, Data I/O, Exemplar, Mentor Graphics, Model<br />
Technology, OrCAD, Synopsys, Synplicity, Veribest and Viewlogic. Close and longstanding<br />
engineering relationships have led to the creation of complementary technology that tightly<br />
integrates third-party tools from those suppliers with the back end software from <strong>Xilinx</strong> that<br />
places and routes logic designs in its FPGAs and CPLDs.<br />
Foundation Series The Foundation Series software is a family of fully integrated, ready-touse<br />
tools for the Windows NT and Windows 95 PC operating systems that support all <strong>Xilinx</strong><br />
FPGA and CPLDs. Available at low price points and targeted at entry-level as well as high end<br />
users, the Foundation Series products leverage industry standard hardware description languages<br />
(HDLs), including Verilog/VHDL. The Windows-based Foundation Series software provides<br />
access to synthesis, schematic entry, gate-level simulation and implementation tools. Since<br />
Foundation Series tools are integrated into a common design management environment, users<br />
have access to all technology from design entry and implementation to verification in a single<br />
software package.<br />
WebFITTER is an online design tool that accepts HDL, ABEL, or netlist files and provides all<br />
reports, simulation models, programming files, and price quotes. This online design tool now has<br />
a new and improved look and feel with enhanced features and a more flexible design flow.<br />
WebFITTER supports all <strong>Xilinx</strong> XC9500 and CoolRunner devices.<br />
WebPACK ISE is the latest downloadable desktop solution from <strong>Xilinx</strong>. WebPACK ISE is a<br />
collection of free PLD software modules that includes HDL and ABEL, synthesis, simulation<br />
and testbench generation, schematic and graphical state diagram entry, device fitting, and JTAG<br />
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programming. WebPACK ISE supports the XC9500 and CoolRunner CPLD product lines as<br />
well as the Virtex XCV300E and the complete Spartan-II FPGA family.<br />
Core Solutions<br />
Today, more than 60 different predefined cores are available to implement system-level<br />
functions directly in <strong>Xilinx</strong> programmable logic devices. This intellectual property, available<br />
from <strong>Xilinx</strong> and third-party partners, allows designers to cut design time and significantly reduce<br />
risk while having access to the best performing and lowest cost components available. Full<br />
information about <strong>Xilinx</strong> cores is available on-line at www.xilinx.com/ipcenter.<br />
LogiCORE products are sold and supported directly by <strong>Xilinx</strong> and include PCI interfaces,<br />
digital signal processing (DSP) functions and a number of other modules such as adders,<br />
multipliers and look-up tables.<br />
AllianceCORE modules are sold and supported by a network of third-party developers and are<br />
optimized for <strong>Xilinx</strong> devices. Current AllianceCORE products range from processors and<br />
standard peripheral controllers to ATM functions.<br />
The CORE Generator tool from <strong>Xilinx</strong> delivers highly optimized cores that are compatible<br />
with standard design methodologies for <strong>Xilinx</strong> FPGAs. This easy-to-use tool generates flexible,<br />
high performance cores with a high degree of predictability and allows customers to download<br />
future core offerings from the <strong>Xilinx</strong> web site. Both <strong>Xilinx</strong> and independent IP developers can<br />
design cores for the CORE Generator tool, which also serves as a cataloging and delivery system<br />
for related collateral for all designers using <strong>Xilinx</strong>. In addition, customers can use the CORE<br />
Generator as a platform to develop an internal design reuse methodology for intellectual property<br />
developed for <strong>Xilinx</strong> programmable logic devices.<br />
<strong>Xilinx</strong> Online Upgradable Systems<br />
The <strong>Xilinx</strong> Internet Reconfigurable Logic (IRL) methodology combines three fundamental<br />
technologies that will allow the design of a new class of field upgradable products: pervasive<br />
networking, Java technology and reconfigurable Virtex FPGAs. These technologies allow system<br />
designers to create <strong>Xilinx</strong> field upgradable systems that can be enhanced with new features, after<br />
installation at the customer site. These solutions are targeted at emerging network appliances<br />
such as multi-use set top boxes, games, security systems and process controllers. In addition, IRL<br />
will be deployed in network equipment such as ATM, cellular base stations and satellite<br />
communications systems. The hardware for these FPGA-based products can be upgraded over<br />
networks to add new features or capabilities or repair problems.<br />
Distribution<br />
To reach its broad customer base, <strong>Xilinx</strong> has established a worldwide network of independent<br />
sales organizations—manufacturer representatives and distributors—supported by more than a<br />
dozen <strong>Xilinx</strong> sales offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Approximately 65<br />
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percent of <strong>Xilinx</strong> revenue come from sales in North America. Europe accounts for 20 percent of<br />
sales, while and Japan and the Asia-Pacific region make up the remainder.<br />
Customer Service<br />
The <strong>Xilinx</strong> Global Services organization provides customers with product, education and design<br />
services plus an automated knowledge base on the web. <strong>Xilinx</strong> Education Services offers<br />
customers a variety of options for in-depth training in the company’s programmable logic<br />
solutions. These include classes such as PCI, advanced FPGA design and FPGAs for ASIC<br />
designers; a “Classroom in a Box” that is shipped complete with laptops and all course materials<br />
to an educational site of a customer’s choosing; and courses hosted at <strong>Xilinx</strong> offices worldwide<br />
or on a customer’s premises. Customers also can choose the <strong>Xilinx</strong> E-Learning system, which<br />
provides scheduled live classes over the Web as well as recorded, on-line courses that are<br />
available on demand 24 hours a day, seven days a week.<br />
<strong>Xilinx</strong> Design Services brings together the activities of system design, programmable logic<br />
design and embedded software development to help customers accelerate product development.<br />
<strong>Xilinx</strong> expert designers can help customers with traditional FPGA designs as well as those<br />
planned for the next generation of Platform FPGAs. <strong>Xilinx</strong> Design Services also provides<br />
expertise in the wide variety of IP cores available from <strong>Xilinx</strong> and its partners and for specific<br />
applications that range from telecommunications and data communications to digital TV.<br />
The Web site support.xilinx.com is the <strong>Xilinx</strong> online community for designers. The site provides<br />
a single, 24-hours-a-day location for designers to expand their knowledge about <strong>Xilinx</strong> products.<br />
The site features an answers database with more than 4,000 unique design tips, techniques and<br />
application notes; interactive forums that allow designers to trade information with their peers;<br />
and problem solvers that automatically step customers through the debugging process.<br />
<strong>Xilinx</strong> augments these services with a team of more than 300 field application engineers (FAEs)<br />
throughout North America, Europe and Asia who provide on-site answers and consulting<br />
services for customers. FAEs, both from <strong>Xilinx</strong> and the company’s independent sales<br />
organizations, are experts in electronic design. They also offer design evaluation of new projects<br />
and close consultation through the design process.<br />
Management<br />
Willem P. “Wim” Roelandts, chief executive officer and president, joined <strong>Xilinx</strong> in January<br />
1996. He is responsible for formulating the company’s overall strategy and providing the<br />
leadership, vision and focus necessary for <strong>Xilinx</strong> to continue its pace of rapid growth and<br />
expansion.<br />
During Roelandts’ tenure at <strong>Xilinx</strong>, revenue has tripled to about $1.5 billion. Today <strong>Xilinx</strong> is<br />
widely recognized as one of best managed and most financially sound high technology<br />
companies in the world. Under Roelandts’ leadership, <strong>Xilinx</strong> has also become the leading<br />
supplier of programmable logic chips, one of the fastest growing segments of the overall<br />
semiconductor industry.<br />
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Since joining <strong>Xilinx</strong>, Roelandts has played an increasingly active role in industry affairs. He<br />
serves on the board of directors of the Semiconductor Industry Association and the Technology<br />
Network, and he is president of the Fabless Semiconductor Association. Roelandts also<br />
frequently acts as a keynote speaker at industry conferences and trade shows.<br />
He joined <strong>Xilinx</strong> after a 30-year career with Hewlett-Packard. In his last position there as senior<br />
vice president, he was responsible for all aspects of HP’s worldwide computer systems business,<br />
including research and development, marketing, manufacturing, sales and professional services.<br />
He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Rijks Hogere Technische School in<br />
Belgium.<br />
Bernard V. “Bernie” Vonderschmitt, chairman of the board, is a respected industry veteran with<br />
an extensive semiconductor background who served as chief executive officer at <strong>Xilinx</strong> until<br />
January 1996. Before co-founding <strong>Xilinx</strong> in 1984, he spent three years as vice president and<br />
general manager of Zilog's component division. Earlier, he held similar responsibilities with the<br />
solid-state division of RCA, where he worked for 20 years helping the company establish several<br />
major agreements with Japanese firms. He earned his MBA from Rider University,<br />
Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and MS in electrical engineering from the University of<br />
Pennsylvania.<br />
Ivo Bolsens, vice president and chief technology officer (CTO), is responsible for identifying<br />
<strong>Xilinx</strong> technologies and talent as well as heading up the <strong>Xilinx</strong> Research Laboratories, which<br />
focuses on advanced research in the area of programmable logic. Bolsens comes from the<br />
Belgium-based research center IMEC, where he was for 17 years, leaving as vice president of<br />
information and communication systems. Since 1999, he was also professor at the Vrije<br />
Universiteit Brussel. Bolsens earned his master's degree in electrical engineering and his Ph.D. in<br />
applied science from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He is author and co-author<br />
of more than 100 papers in the field of VLSI design, CAD, embedded system design and<br />
wireless communication and is also co-author of the book, "High Level Synthesis for Real Time<br />
Digital Signal Processing."<br />
Erich Goetting, general manager of the Advanced Product Division of FPGAs, is responsible for<br />
all marketing and business activities in that organization. As the former vice president of<br />
engineering at <strong>Xilinx</strong>, Erich was responsible for FPGA research and development. Goetting led<br />
the development of the Virtex FPGA product family. Before joining <strong>Xilinx</strong> in 1989, Goetting<br />
held management and technical positions at Bell Laboratories, Hughes Electro-Optic and Data<br />
Systems, and Exel Microelectronics. He holds 22 patents in the areas of programmable logic and<br />
CMOS integrated-circuit design. Goetting earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering<br />
from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree in finance from the Wharton School<br />
of Business. He also received a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of<br />
Southern California.<br />
Steve Haynes serves as vice president, worldwide sales, at <strong>Xilinx</strong>. He joined <strong>Xilinx</strong> in 1987 as a<br />
regional sales manager in the Northeast, was promoted to area sales director in 1988, and served<br />
as vice president, North American sales, from 1995 to 1998. Haynes has over 25 years of sales<br />
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and marketing experience in the semiconductor industry, including tenure at National<br />
Semiconductor and Silicon Systems. He earned his bachelor’s degree in marketing from the<br />
University of Denver in Denver, Colo.<br />
Clay Johnson, general manager of the General Product Division of FPGAs, is responsible for all<br />
marketing and business activities in that organization. Previously, he was vice president of<br />
FPGA business development. He joined <strong>Xilinx</strong> in 1990 and previously served as vice president<br />
of worldwide service and support and vice president and general manager of the Hardwire/High<br />
Reliability Division. Earlier, he worked as European marketing manager and director of support.<br />
Before joining <strong>Xilinx</strong>, Johnson was director of customer support at Daisy Systems Corp. and a<br />
product engineer at Advanced Micro Devices. He earned his bachelor's degree in electrical<br />
engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.<br />
Don Mullikin serves as vice president of the Global Services Division, where he is responsible<br />
for a broad range of services that <strong>Xilinx</strong> provides for customers worldwide. Those include<br />
technical support for applications and products as well as customer education and design<br />
services. Mullikin joined <strong>Xilinx</strong> in 1995 and was responsible for the company's North America<br />
technical support organization. From 1988 to 1995 he served in sales and management roles at<br />
Texas Instruments, where he most recently was responsible for developing and managing the<br />
corporate technical support operation. Mullikin earned his bachelor's degree in electrical<br />
engineering from Villanova University.<br />
Randy Ong, vice president of worldwide operations, has overall responsibility for<br />
manufacturing, quality assurance, testing, reliability and package development for <strong>Xilinx</strong><br />
programmable logic devices. He also oversees strategic management of the company’s<br />
semiconductor foundry partners. Ong joined <strong>Xilinx</strong> in 1990 and earlier held product<br />
development positions with ASPEN Semiconductor, Advanced Micro Devices and Fairchild<br />
Semiconductor. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering at the<br />
University of California, Berkeley.<br />
Richard Sevcik, senior vice president of the FPGA Products Group, containing the Advanced<br />
Products Division and General Product Division of FPGA products, is responsible for ensuring<br />
the delivery of the most cohesive hardware and software products in the industry. Sevcik retains<br />
responsibility for the direction of the Global Service division, too. Formerly, Sevcik was in<br />
charge of the Intellectual Property cores, Software and Services Group at <strong>Xilinx</strong>. Sevcik was<br />
appointed the <strong>Xilinx</strong> Board of Directors in April 2000. He joined <strong>Xilinx</strong> in 1997 from Hewlett-<br />
Packard, where he had served as group general manager of HP’s Systems Technology Group.<br />
Sevcik received his bachelor’s degree in engineering physics from the University of Illinois and<br />
his master’s in solid state physics from Northwestern University.<br />
Sheri Anderson, vice president and Chief Information Officer, has been with <strong>Xilinx</strong> since 2001.<br />
At <strong>Xilinx</strong>, Anderson is responsible for the computer systems, networks, databases and<br />
management information systems, which support the company's business strategy and link<br />
<strong>Xilinx</strong> closely with its partners and customers. Anderson came to <strong>Xilinx</strong> from Novell, Inc. where<br />
she served as the General Manager and Senior Vice President of Customer Services. She began<br />
there in 1995, and was the CIO for five years. Prior to her work at Novell, Anderson held<br />
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executive positions with leading companies including Non-Stop Logistics Corporation, Charles<br />
Schwab & Co., Inc., Wells Fargo Banks, N.A., Electronic Data Systems and Remedy<br />
Corporation. Additionally, Anderson serves on various technical advisory committees and<br />
industry associations. Anderson earned her bachelor's degree in Economics from Stanford<br />
University in 1976.<br />
Sandeep Vij, vice president of marketing, has overall responsibility for all marketing activities<br />
involving the company's programmable logic solutions. Earlier he served as director of FPGA<br />
marketing at <strong>Xilinx</strong>. He joined <strong>Xilinx</strong> in 1996 from Altera Corp., where he worked for more than<br />
five years in a number of product marketing roles. Before that he held various engineering and<br />
marketing positions at General Electric Co. He has master's degree in electrical engineering from<br />
Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from San Jose State<br />
University.<br />
Evert Wolsheimer, vice president and general manager of the CPLD Division, oversees all<br />
aspects of CPLD product design, operations, product planning and software processes. Before<br />
joining <strong>Xilinx</strong> in 1991, he served as manager of technology development at LSI Logic and earlier<br />
held several R&D and marketing management positions at Philips. He earned his doctorate in<br />
electrical engineering from Delft University in the Netherlands and has three U.S. patents.<br />
Peg Wynn serves as vice president of worldwide human resources at <strong>Xilinx</strong> and is responsible<br />
for worldwide staffing, employee relations, training, organizational development, compensation,<br />
and benefits. Wynn joined <strong>Xilinx</strong> in 1998 as a human resources director and was responsible for<br />
international human resources and strategic planning. She served from 1993-1998 with Winning<br />
By Design, Palo Alto, California, as a principal consultant working with international clients on<br />
strategic planning and productivity improvement as well as large-scale change management<br />
programs. Wynn also served with Intel Corp. for 13 years in a variety of human resources,<br />
engineering and corporate consulting positions. Wynn received her bachelor's of science degree<br />
from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, in 1974.<br />
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