FPGA design team pushes for a global effort.

The article focuses on Xilinx's Spartan-6 and Virtex-6, two complete families of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) having a common tool set and a common pool of Internet Protocol (IP). The two products are different embodiments of the same concept for different product points. The story behind the development of the two products is described. According to executive Victor Peng, customers said they could see the company's organizational boundaries in their products.