FROM
THE EDITOR
Wim Roelandts has been at the helm of the world’s largest programmable logic company for the past twelve years. Moshe Gavrielov has now assumed that role, bringing with him decades of experience from the microprocessor, ASIC, and EDA worlds. FPGA Journal was there on the day of transition to bring you this exclusive interview with the once and future CEOs of Xilinx.
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Passing the Torch
Xilinx Leadership Legacy Lives On (Kevin Morris)
The royalty walk quietly among the common folk here. The thick-carpeted mahogany-veneered opulence typical of high-tech presidential palaces is nowhere to be seen. Instead, on an ordinary floor in an ordinary building overlooking a nondescript cube farm are two adjacent rooms that would probably be conference rooms at your company. Not the special, glossy, wood-wrapped, electric-view-screen-and-sound-system, “we entertain important clients in here” style of conference rooms, but rather the “grab your coffee and duck in here so we can scribble some stuff on the whiteboard” type. In your company, each of these would probably be named after a river or stream in the nearby county, and there would be a sign-up list somewhere online that nobody uses, except that annoying rule-follower dude that always comes in and bumps you out because he has a “reservation” even though the identical room next door has been unoccupied for weeks. [more]
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