Xilinx Participates in VLSI Conference 2012

HYDERABAD, India, Jan. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx India, a subsidiary of Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), will showcase its breakthrough 28nm programmable platforms at the 25th International Conference on VLSI Design to be held from January 7 - 11, 2012 in Hyderabad.

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Xilinx Vice President of Product Development, Suresh Menon, will deliver a keynote address on "FPGA Roadmap: Technology Challenges & Transitioning to Stacked Silicon Interconnect" highlighting how Xilinx innovations are helping the semiconductor industry meet the requests for ever more bandwidth driven by the insatiable demands of the mobile citizenry.

Senior Director of Xilinx India, Narayana Pidugu, is the co-chair of the industry forum on "Embedded Solutions for Emerging Markets – Consumer, Energy, and Automotive."

At the booth themed "More than Moore," Xilinx will showcase four live demos of FPGAs in analog mixed signal, the power advantage of the Xilinx® 7 series FPGAs, video streaming on Zynq™-7000 EPP and floating-point operations in system generator.  The Xilinx University Program (XUP) will demonstrate state-of-the-art audio, video and face-recognition applications built on the latest Xilinx academic development kits designed specifically for teaching, research and student projects."

Xilinx is a platinum sponsor for the event, apart from sponsoring the awards ceremony on Tuesday, January 10, 2012. In conjunction with the International Conference on VLSI Design, IEEE will conduct the RASDAT 2012 conference from January 7 – 8, 2012 at the Hyderabad International Convention Center. Vamsi Boppana, Site Director and CTO of Xilinx India will inaugurate the event on January 7. For details regarding conference sessions, see below:

Date: Monday, January 9
Time: 11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Session: Introducing Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform: Where ARM® Processors Meet Hardware Programmability
Speaker: Vaibhav Kale, Technical Marketing Manager, Xilinx India
Venue: Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC)

Date: Monday, January 9
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Session: Panel discussion on Indian Semiconductor Industry: What Will it Take to Complete the Eco-System - Concept to Production
Speaker: Sanjay Churiwala, Director, ADVS, Xilinx India
Venue: Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC)

Date: Monday, January 9 & Tuesday, January 10
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Session: Industry Forum: Embedded Solutions for Emerging Markets – Consumer, Energy, and Automotive
Co-chair: Narayana Pidugu, Senior Director, Xilinx India
Venue: Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC)

Date: Tuesday, January 10
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Session: Women in Technology
Speaker: Priya Suryanarayanan, Senior Engineering Manager, Xilinx India
Venue: Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC)

Date: Wednesday, January 11
Time: 1:40 p.m. – 2:25 p.m.
Session: FPGA Roadmap: Technology Challenges & Transitioning to Stacked Silicon Interconnect
Speaker: Suresh Menon, Vice President of Product Development, Xilinx
Venue: Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC)

About the 25th International Conference on VLSI Design
The annual VLSI conference is a forum for researchers and designers to present and discuss various aspects of VLSI design, electronic design automation (EDA), embedded systems, and enabling technologies. It covers the entire spectrum of activities in the two vital areas of very large scale integration (VLSI) and embedded systems, which underpin the semiconductor industry.

About Xilinx
Xilinx is the world's leading provider of programmable platforms.  For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.

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