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New Delhi, India
September 20th, 2007
Xilinx Inc, supplier of programmable logic solutions, has announced various
initiatives to develop Xilinx India centre into a global research and
development (R&D) hub. The move will help Xilinx strengthen its current
global R&D ecosystem, and expand its presence in the high-growth Asia
Pacific region.
In a related announcement Xilinx appointed Mallik Moturi as MD of Xilinx
India. In his role, Moturi will focus on formulating and driving a
customer-focused R&D strategy, further strengthening relationships with the
growing number of customers in India and Asia Pacific. Moturi will also
spearhead the integration of the Xilinx India team with worldwide R&D
operations.
According to Iain Morris, Executive VP and GM of the Xilinx Advanced Products
Group, "Our team in India has accomplished many significant milestones in a
short period. Xilinx is committed towards fully developing the India centre into
a global R&D hub. Xilinx India will now undertake global projects of
strategic importance."
Moturi added "Xilinx India will now play a crucial role in the entire
chain of global R&D activities including IP core development, software
development and systems and applications. While earlier activities focused on IP
core development, we are now setting up core groups to undertake software and
systems and applications development. Xilinx India currently employs about 100
high-end design engineers and the plan is to significantly increase our strength
of high end engineers covering all the three competency areas."
The system and application centre will concentrate on domain specific
platforms for Xilinx customers across APAC and rest of the world in areas such
as consumer electronics, telecommunications, video and connectivity, in
collaboration with the go-to-market system and application teams in APAC while
the software centre will focus on EDA tools and algorithm development,
verification and benchmarking for FPGAs. The India centre will continue to
provide design verification for most IP cores developed by Xilinx globally and
offer technical support for Xilinx customers. Page(s) 1
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