Xilinx Hyd centre delivers 24 IP cores since Feb 2004

Xilinx, Inc, a leading supplier of programmable chips, has announced that its development centre in India has delivered 24 Intellectual Property (IP) cores since February 2004. Xilinx's development centre in India is operated by CMC Limited.

Addressing the media, Willem Roelandts, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Xilinx, said, "The development centre in Hyderabad is a key part of the overall strategy and we have four centres of excellence that have been contributing to around 300 cores that Xilinx has developed over the years."

IP cores are pre-engineered, functional modules that are used by customers of Xilinx to reduce development time of their programmable system designs. The Xilinx-CMC India development centre has expanded the library of Xilinx-developed IP cores by 15 per cent.

"It is good that the Budget this year in India focuses on the semiconductor industry. The trend is encouraging especially because we have already moved ahead with our ongoing work on 65 nm technology. The Hyderabad centre is helping in the development and we should be out with the products based on this technology later this year," Roelandts said, adding that in the next year there will be 45 nm technology.

"My dream is to make FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) invisible. This means that tomorrow when programmers write the code in computer language we will be able to directly translate it to FPGAs. In the next five years, I see some elements of this dream being introduced," Roelandts said.

Betting big on the consumer electronics segment, Roelandts said that the industry was going through a lot of transition. "There is talk about Voice over Internet Protocol. Later there will be Video over Internet Protocol. With regard to television, in the next 10 years, high definition televisions will replace the ordinary TVs that are around today," he added.

Meanwhile, with regard to the growth of the Hyderabad centre, Roelandts said that right now they have 60 people at the centre and plan to grow to "several hundred in the next few years."