Moshe Gavrielov, CEO of Xilinx, has 30 years of executive management and engineering experience with semiconductor and software companies. He served as executive vice president and general manager of the verification division at Cadence Design Systems. Before that, Gavrielov was CEO of Verisity, Ltd., where he grew the company from a $4 million startup through
The recession had a severe impact on the semiconductor industry in 2008, but the programmable logic device (PLD) market was one of the few segments which saw growth. This $3.8 billion market received a boost early this year following the expansion of 3G mobile networks in China. The overall programmable logic market is estimated to