M&A Deal Summary

Xilinx Acquires Sarance Technologies

On May 16, 2011, Xilinx acquired semiconductors company Sarance Technologies

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Xilinx’s 6th transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is Xilinx’s 1st transaction in Canada.
  • This is Xilinx’s 1st transaction in Ontario.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2011-05-16
Target Sarance Technologies
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) Xilinx
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

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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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 7 of 14
Sector (Semiconductors) 6 of 6
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 6 of 13
State (Ontario) 1 of 1
Country (Canada) 1 of 1
Year (2011) 4 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-05-09 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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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-08-28 PetaLogix

United States

PetaLinux SDK, the flagship product of PetaLogix, is an embedded Linux solution that is based on proprietary technology that was developed and purchased from the University of Queensland and now deployed at many communications, automotive, medical and industrial companies.

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