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Income Taxes (Details Textual) (USD $)
12 Months Ended
Mar. 28, 2015
Mar. 29, 2014
Mar. 30, 2013
Mar. 30, 2014
Mar. 31, 2013
Income Taxes (Textual) [Abstract]          
Gross unrecognized tax benefits balance $ 30,089,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefits $ 26,398,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefits   $ 26,398,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefits $ 69,957,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefits
Unrecognized tax benefits that would impact effective tax rate 12,500,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsThatWouldImpactEffectiveTaxRate 11,000,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsThatWouldImpactEffectiveTaxRate      
Tax benefit (expense) associated with stock option exercises and employee stock purchase plan 55,000,000us-gaap_EmployeeServiceShareBasedCompensationTaxBenefitFromCompensationExpense 67,000,000us-gaap_EmployeeServiceShareBasedCompensationTaxBenefitFromCompensationExpense 32,600,000us-gaap_EmployeeServiceShareBasedCompensationTaxBenefitFromCompensationExpense    
Net operating loss carryforwards 16,500,000us-gaap_OperatingLossCarryforwards        
Net operating loss carryforwards, Expiration dates Dec. 31, 2030        
Tax credit carryforwards 152,400,000us-gaap_TaxCreditCarryforwardAmount        
Hypothetical US tax liability if unremitted foreign earnings were remitted 938,700,000xlnx_HypotheticalUsTaxLiabilityForUnremittedForeignEarnings        
Long-term deferred tax assets 59,700,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxAssetsNetNoncurrent 61,900,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxAssetsNetNoncurrent      
Deferred tax assets, valuation allowance 52,552,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxAssetsValuationAllowance 43,004,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxAssetsValuationAllowance      
Permanently Invested Outside U.S. [Abstract]          
Unremitted foreign earnings 2,800,000,000us-gaap_UndistributedEarningsOfForeignSubsidiaries        
State [Member]          
Income Taxes (Textual) [Abstract]          
Net operating loss carryforwards, valuation allowance 80,800,000us-gaap_TaxCreditCarryforwardValuationAllowance
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Singapore [Member]          
Income Taxes (Textual) [Abstract]          
Statutory tax rate prior to income tax holiday 17.00%xlnx_IncomeTaxHolidayStatutoryTaxRate
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Effective tax rate following income tax holiday 0.00%xlnx_IncomeTaxHolidayPioneerStatusTaxRate
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Benefit from income tax holiday 66,000,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxHolidayAggregateDollarAmount
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60,300,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxHolidayAggregateDollarAmount
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41,000,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxHolidayAggregateDollarAmount
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Benefit from income tax holiday, per share (in dollars per share) $ 0.24us-gaap_IncomeTaxHolidayIncomeTaxBenefitsPerShare
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$ 0.21us-gaap_IncomeTaxHolidayIncomeTaxBenefitsPerShare
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$ 0.15us-gaap_IncomeTaxHolidayIncomeTaxBenefitsPerShare
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Additional Paid-in Capital [Member]          
Income Taxes (Textual) [Abstract]          
Tax benefit (expense) associated with stock option exercises and employee stock purchase plan $ 13,900,000us-gaap_EmployeeServiceShareBasedCompensationTaxBenefitFromCompensationExpense
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$ 26,400,000us-gaap_EmployeeServiceShareBasedCompensationTaxBenefitFromCompensationExpense
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$ 9,000,000us-gaap_EmployeeServiceShareBasedCompensationTaxBenefitFromCompensationExpense
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