Xilinx Scholarship

Description:

Xilinx leads one of the fastest growing segments of the semiconductor industry-- programmable logic devices. Xilinx develops, manufactures, and markets a broad line of advanced integrated circuits, software design tools and intellectual property. Customers use the automated tools and intellectual property -- predefined system-level functions delivered as software cores -- from Xilinx and its partners to program the chips to perform custom logic operations. Xilinx has more than 7,500 customers worldwide and more than 50,000 design starts. In Fortune Magazine’s 2003 list of "The Best 100 Companies to Work For", Xilinx ranked #4 nationwide and was the highest-ranking publicly traded company. The San Francisco Chronicle also named Xilinx one of the top 50 companies to work for in Silicon Valley. Xilinx ranked 17th in Business Week’s list of 50 best-performing companies in the S&P 500, and one of the 400 best big companies by Forbes. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Xilinx has approximately 2,600 employees, with nearly half of its engineers dedicated to software development.
http://www.xilinx.com