Business Combinations

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Business Combinations [Abstract]

Business Combinations

Note 19. Business Combinations

During the first quarter of fiscal 2012, the Company purchased certain assets and assumed certain liabilities of Modelware, Inc., a privately-held company that provides Packet Processing solutions in communications equipment, and Sarance Technologies, Inc., a privately-held company that develops Ethernet and Interlaken IP solutions for the logic IC landscape. Both acquisitions align with Xilinx’s strategy for accelerating market growth and meet the increasing demand from our wired communications customers to offer application specific IP. These acquisitions were accounted for under the purchase method of accounting.

During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011, the Company completed the acquisitions of all of the outstanding equity of AutoESL, a privately-held company that provides high level synthesis software tools to deliver the benefits of programmable platforms to a broader base of companies, and Omiino Ltd. (Omiino), a privately-held company that develops Optical Transport Network IP. The AutoESL acquisition aligns with Xilinx’s strategy for accelerating market growth, as AutoESL-based tools will enable more architects and designers to utilize FPGA capabilities, while the Omiino acquisition supports Xilinx’s effort to meet the increasing demand from our large wired communications customers to offer application specific IP. These acquisitions were accounted for under the purchase method of accounting.

The aggregate financial impact of these acquisitions was not material to the Company.