M&A Deal Summary

Xilinx Acquires Silexica

On June 10, 2021, Xilinx acquired software company Silexica

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Xilinx’s 3rd transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Xilinx’s 1st transaction in Germany.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2021-06-10
Target Silexica
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Xilinx
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Silexica

Cologne, Germany
Silexica provides software development tools reducing time-to-market of innovative software IP and intelligent products. Enabled by deep software analysis, heterogeneous hardware awareness and quick design space exploration, the SLX programming tools accelerate the journey from software to application-specific hardware systems, democratizing accelerated computing. Founded in 2014, Silexica is headquartered in Germany with offices in the US and Japan.

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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 14 of 14
Sector: Software M&A 3 of 3
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 13 of 13
Country: Germany M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2021 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-12-01 Falcon Computing Solutions

Santa Clara, California, United States

Falcon Computing Solutions is a provider of high-level synthesis (HLS) compiler optimization technology for hardware acceleration of software applications. The company provides automated compilation tools, a runtime management tool, and acceleration libraries to enable a scalable and seamless integration of heterogeneous accelerating technologies into existing data center infrastructures, with a focus on FPGA-based acceleration. It brings orders-of-magnitude performance/power efficiency improvement for key big-data applications, including machine learning and computational genomics/precision medicine. Falcon Computing Solutions was formed in 2014 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

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