Ross Feeman died in 1989. He was inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame in 2006.
In 1984 he was a co-founder of Xilinx and credited as the inventor of the first commercial FPGA in 1985
He spent his early years with Teletype Corporation.
Freeman earned a BS degree in physics from Michigan State University in 1969 and an MS from University of Illinois in 1971.
