Xilinx opens development centre in H'bad 

HYDERABAD: Xilinx Inc. has strengthened its research and development activity with the launch of its India Development Centre here.

The centre, one of Xilinx’s largest centre outside the USA, will initially house 75 professionals. The company intends to ramp up the centre’s headcount to 300 in the next couple of years. The centre would function on the full product development lifecycle of Intellectual Property (IP) cores in automotive electronics, embedded processing and high-speed serial I/O connectivity besides providing design verifications and technical support for Xilinx’s customers.

“This site enables us to tap into excellent pool of local engineering talent, thereby strengthening our global R&D ecosystem and bringing us closer to the local electronics design market,’’ said Krish Chellam, senior vice-president, global enterprise services, Xilinx.

In 2004, Xilinx ventured into a partnership with CMC Limited and started working on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) IP cores, which were deployed for telecommunications, consumer electronics and automotive applications.

“CMC also treasures its relationship with Xilinx and we will leverage our FPGA competencies and design service capabilities to continue providing value-added work to their activities in India."

Speaking on the occasion Akshya Prakash, managing director of Xilinx India, said that the company is hoping to cash in on the emerging automotive and consumer electronics space. The company is in talks some automotive majors in the country.

Prakash revealed that Xilinx is in talks with Tata Motors for research work in the Controller Area Networks space. "About 80 per cent of our revenues used to be from the wired and wireless segments. But now that is less than 50 per cent."

To promote R&D, Xilinx would launch an Asia Venture Capital Fund. “We would be making a formal announcement on this in November,” informed Chellam.

Xilinx is also in the process of testing the 45nm FPGA, slated for a 2007 launch.

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