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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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