Xilinx to increase its IDC manpower

Xilinx Inc, supplier of programmable chips, has decided to increase the
manpower staff in its Indian Development Center (IDC) from the present 30 to 300
in the next couple of years. Xilinx operates its IDC unit in collaboration with
CMC in Hyderabad and has plans to acquire a company to expand its operations.

On his visit to mark the one-year anniversary of the company's operations,
Willem P Roelandts, CEO and Presi-dent, Xilinx said, "The IDC currently has
30 engineers and we are looking at increasing this to 300 in the future. We also
have successfully created 12 IP cores from the Hyderabad center signifying the
high-end R&D work being done from India. We may not rule out the possibility
of acquiring a company for its technology and know-how in this sector to further
our activities."

IP cores are pre-defined hardware design modules that customers can use to
reduce their design efforts, lower costs and perform a specific func-tion.
"We at the Indian center cover the entire product deve-lopment, including
product design, verification and test-ing," said Akshya Prakash, MD, Xilinx-CMC
IDC.

Foreseeing the future of the semiconductor industry, Roelandts said,
"Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) will take over the market share of
Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASCIs) as FPGAs have the flexibility
of changing functions as per the needs and cost less as well. The time taken to
design these chips is also relatively less."

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