Xilinx is an American company founded in 1984 and now headquartered in San Jose,USA. It was the first who invented FPGA (field-programmable gate array) and first who created fabless model in semiconductor business.
Today it is the world’s leader providing All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, MPSoCs, and 3D ICs. Xilinx uniquely enables applications that are both software defined and hardware optimized – powering industry advancements in Cloud Computing, Embedded Vision, Industrial IoT, and 5G Wireless.
The Xilinx Cost-Optimized Portfolio consists of 4 families that are optimized for specific capabilities:
- Spartan®-6 FPGA 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 All Programmable SoCs for system optimization with scalable processor integration
- Kintex UltraScale ideal for packet processing in 100G networking and data center applications