Xilinx, Inc. is an American technology company that is primarily a supplier of programmable logic devices. The company is known for inventing the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and creating the first fabless manufacturing model. Xilinx’s FPGAs have been used in a wide range of applications, from digital signal processing to software-defined radio, and from video & image processing to industrial and medical technology. Xilinx also develops SoCs, MPSoCs and 3D ICs, with its Vivado Design Suite software used for the synthesis and analysis of HDL designs, enabling a high level of design abstraction for hardware designers. Xilinx is recognized for its innovation and contribution to technology advancement.