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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.
Aug 5, 2022 · Learn about Ross Freeman, the Peace Corps volunteer and physics graduate who founded Xilinx and invented the field programmable gate array (FPGA). Discover how he challenged the industry with his vision and innovation, and how his legacy lives on today.
Feb 27, 2009 · Ross Freeman was a co-founder of Xilinx and a pioneer of programmable logic devices based on SRAM cells. He was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2009 for his patent on a programmable silicon structure of open gates.
Jun 30, 2017 · Ross Freeman getting a bird’s-eye view of the XC2064 layout. Perhaps Xilinx’s office manager wouldn’t let them push pins into the wall?
“Ross Freeman is a seasoned practitioner who is known for his skilled handling of ASIC investigations and other contentious regulatory matters. He recently advised on the Australian component of a multi-jurisdictional Libor investigation faced by a client.” – Chambers Asia-Pacific, 2015.
Ross Freeman invented the field programmable gate array (FPGA), a computer chip that can be reprogrammed for various applications. He co-founded Xilinx, Inc., a leading company in the programmable logic device industry, and earned a master's degree in physics.
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