XILINX 1996 Annual Report

Corporate Profile

Founded in 1984, Xilinx is the world's largest supplier of programmable logic solutions comprising industry leading device architectures and world-class design software. Headquartered in San Jose, California, the company pioneered the market for field programmable gate array (FPGA) semiconductor devices that provide high integration and quick time-to-market for electronic equipment manufacturers in the computer, peripherals, telecommunications, networking, industrial control, instrumentation, and high reliability/military markets. Xilinx common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol

XLNX.