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)