About the Author

Kate Kelley is a product marketing manager with responsibility for Hierarchal Design flows including Design Preservation and Team Design. Kate joined Xilinx in 1996 as a FAE in the Raleigh, NC area. In 2001, Kate moved to software product marketing with responsibility for timing and incremental flows. Prior to joining Xilinx, Kate worked as an engineer for IBM and Wandel & Goltermann responsible for FPGA and board level designs. Kate has won Second place, Best Paper and Best First-time Presenter at SNUG Boston 2010 for ‘Achieving Faster Turnaround Time and Better QOR using Compile Points and Design Preservation for Virtex Devices’. Kate holds a BS in computer engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester NY.