CMC to soon become XPERTS partner for Xilinx
Business Standard, January 6, 2006

Hyderabad: CMC Limited will shortly become an XPERTS partner for Xilinx, a $1.6-billion leader in programmable logic devices. XPERTS (Xilinx Programme for Engineering Resources from Third Parties) is a partnership programme with design consulting companies that offer programmable logic design expertise to electronic equipment manufacturers. Xilinx had launched this programme with 26 member companies initially worldwide.

R Ramanan, managing director and chief executive officer of CMC Limited, said, "We are in the final stages of becoming an XPERTS partner for Xilinx. This designation will make us an authorised provider of design services even to the end-customers of Xilinx."

Akshya Prakash, managing director of Xilinx-CMC India development centre, said, "We see this as a logical extension of our relationship with CMC. We have been able to focus on technology with this partnership and have been able to bootstrap ourselves over here."

Xilinx-CMC India development centre has created 20 IP cores out of the 200-250 that Xilinx has. "This means that we have been able to create eight-ten per cent of what the company has created globally in just around two years of operations," Prakash added.

In terms of market, the Asia-Pacific region contributes to around 40 per cent of Xilinx's revenues as compared to around 13 per cent, four years ago.

"At present, the market for fixed logic devices is higher than that of programmable logic devices, but in the next five-ten years, the crossover point may occur. We see a growing transition towards programmable logic devices from fixed logic devices because of less time-to-market and lower cost involved in designing the former," Prakash said.