Xilinx expands its R&D facility in Hyderabad

BANGALORE, INDIA: Xilinx, one of the top investors in semiconductor domain in India, has doubled its R&D facility in Hyderabad. Apart from having engineering labs and collaboration space for end-to-end product development, the 131,000 square foot office, also has an energy efficient data center and expanded facilities for company’s events.

Xilinx has been estimated to have the higher market share in the Indian FPGA market and is also growing fast. There are other FPGA companies which are investing in the R&D talent pool in India. One among them being Lattice and Microsemi, which is looking forward to invest in the R&D sector in India.

Many companies are looking at India as a favourable destination for R&D investment. Apart from seeing it as a centre for cost arbitrage, the companies want to address the local market which is seen as a potential market for the investors.

"The Xilinx India engineering team will continue to play a pivotal role in our success as part of Xilinx's world-class PPD engineering organization. Notably, more than half the Zynq engineering team is based in India, with some aspects entirely designed and verified in India. The India team has sole ownership and development responsibility for significant aspects of our next-generationtool suite accelerating programmable design productivity,” said Moshe Gavrielov, President and CEO, Xilinx.

Expansion of this facility could create more job opportunities for VLSI engineers in India.