The electronics company who inveNTed the FPGA. Xilinx was founded in San Jose, California, in 1984, and inveNTed the field-programmable gate array. They claim to command more than half of the world market for these devices today. More receNT innovations include {complex programmable logic devices}. Start . Address: 2100 Logic Drive, San Jose, CA 95124, USA. (1998-09-25)