Xilinx acquires Sarance Technologies

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Programmable logic vendor Xilinx announced the acquisition of Sarance Technologies for an undisclosed sum.

Sarance Technologies, the co-founder of Interlaken Alliance, is an an Ontario, Canada-based supplier of ASIC and FPGA IP cores targeted at the packet processing space.

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Xilinx says that the new acquisition will complete its technology portfolio for addressing next generation line card applications by adding connectivity communications capabilities.

The new connectivity solution portfolio enable Xilinx to address 40G, 100G and beyond Interlaken, Ethernet applications as well as 400G Ethernet systems.

The latest acquisition follows the recent take over of Omiino and Modelware.

“The insatiable global demand for bandwidth is drastically increasing constraints on network infrastructures and operators. Customers are increasing line card bandwidths well into the 200 Gbps to 400 Gbps and leading Ethernet MAC and Scalable Interlaken solutions are key for enabling FPGAs to play a central role in these applications,” said Krishna Rangasayee corporate vice president & general manager, Xilinx Communications Business Unit.