M&A Deal Summary

Xilinx Acquires Modelware

On May 9, 2011, Xilinx acquired semiconductors company Modelware

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Xilinx’s 5th transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is Xilinx’s 5th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Xilinx’s 1st transaction in New Jersey.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2011-05-09
Target Modelware
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) Xilinx
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Modelware

Red Bank,, New Jersey, United States
Modelware, Inc. is a provider of traffic management/packet processing silicon intellectual property (IP) cores and reference designs that simplify system development and enable greater differentiation for networking applications supporting 10G, 40G, 100G and beyond.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Xilinx

San Jose, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1984
Sector Semiconductors
Employees4,890
Revenue 3.1B USD (2020)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Xilinx's corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.
Entrance to Xilinx's corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.

Xilinx designs and develops programmable devices and associated technologies. The Company's products include integrated circuits (ICs) in the form of programmable logic devices (PLDs), including programmable System on Chips (SoCs) and three-dimensional ICs, or 3D ICs; software design tools to program the PLDs; targeted reference designs; and printed circuit boards. In addition to its programmable platforms, Xilinx provides design services, customer training, field engineering and technical support. Xilinx was established in 1984 and is based in San Jose, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 14
Sector (Semiconductors) 5 of 6
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 5 of 13
State (New Jersey) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 5 of 9
Year (2011) 3 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-02-28 Omiino

United Kingdom

Omiino (Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland) was formed in 2007 by engineers from such companies as Amphion Semiconductor, Flextronics and Nortel.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-05-16 Sarance Technologies

Nepean, Ontario, Canada

Sarance Technologies is a leading supplier of ASIC and FPGA IP cores targeted at the packet processing space. The cores include Interlaken IP, classification and traffic management IP. Its solutions consist of very configurable, highly-FPGA-optimized portfolio of chip-to-chip interconnect focused on the Ethernet, Interlaken, and the Network Search Engine market segments. The companies said the Sarance IP is capable of scaling to 400G rates for bridging in an FPGA. Their IP along with Virtex FPGAs has allowed Xilinx to present optimized solutions to customers where many competitive alternatives require larger or non-optimized solutions that force compromises on features and performance.

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