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Ross Freeman (July 26, 1948 – October 22, 1989), was an American electrical engineer and inventor, and co-founder of the leading FPGA developer Xilinx. Early life and education [ edit ]
Xilinx was co-founded by Ross Freeman, Bernard Vonderschmitt, and James V Barnett II in 1984. The company went public on the Nasdaq in 1990. [7] [8] In October 2020, AMD announced its acquisition of Xilinx, which was completed on February 14, 2022, through an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $60 billion.
After leaving RCA, he worked briefly for Zilog, before co-founding Xilinx together with Ross Freeman in 1984. With Xilinx, he pioneered the fabless business model which is now used by a large number of semiconductor companies around the world. Vonderschmitt died on June 9, 2004, in Jasper, Indiana. [3]
Barnett co-founded Xilinx with Ross Freeman and Bernard Vonderschmitt in 1984. The three individuals had been working together at Zilog where Freeman wished to develop chips that were blank and users could program the logic themselves and envisioned the field-programmable gate array.
He is a four-time winner of the Ross Freeman Award, Xilinx’s annual award for technical innovation. [citation needed] He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 [11] for his contributions to circuits, architectures and software technology for field-programmable gate arrays. He was elected to ...
Ida Ross-Freeman, a civil rights advocate and social worker in Canton, has died. She was 77. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
Ross Freeman: 1948 Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) [403] 2009 Alfred Y. Cho * 1937 Molecular beam epitaxy [404] 2009 George H. Heilmeier * 1936 Electro-optic liquid crystal device [405] 2009 Gordon Kidd Teal * 1907 Silicon transistor [406] 2009 Gordon Moore * 1929 Semiconductor production [407] 2010 Arthur Fry: 1931 Post-it notes [408 ...
Canton artist Errick Freeman's second mural in downtown Wooster triggers memories of his late mom.