Salil Raje Ph.D. — Senior Vice President of Software & IP Products Development at Xilinx

Dr. Salil Raje, Ph.D., has been Senior Vice President of Software & IP Products Development at Xilinx, Inc. since April 26, 2017. Dr. Raje leads a global team of about 1,000 engineers and oversees the strategy, design solutions, priorities and execution specific to the growth of Xilinx Software and IP. He is also responsible for leading initiatives around Vivado HLx and SDx development environments that allow customers to adopt higher level abstraction flows and are instrumental in its expansion efforts in the data center market, machine learning and vision-based applications. He is a 13 year veteran of Xilinx. He served as the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Executive Officer at Hier Design, Inc. While Chief Executive Officer, he oversaw the acquisition of Hier Design by Xilinx Inc. in 2004. He co-founded Hier Design in 2001. At Hier Design, he was responsible for introducing a hierarchical design and design planning tool, PlanAhead, to the FPGA design community. He led the introduction of the Vivado Design Suite in 2012 ' a grass roots effort to modernize the design flow that resulted in Xilinx achieving design tools and IP leadership and improved customer productivity. He served as Director of Research and Development at Monterey Design Systems where he was responsible for the development of physical prototype and analysis software. At Monterey, he was awarded four patents, with another two that are pendingHe started his career at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York working in High Level Synthesis. He holds eight patents in the areas of electronic design tools, ASIC and FPGA designs and has authored over 15 industry recognized research papers. Dr. Raje received a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India. He completed a Master of Science degree and Ph.D. in Computer Science at Northwestern University in Chicago.