Background
He was born on October 14, 1923 in Jasper, Indiana.
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Bernard Vonderschmitt
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Vonderschmitt graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rose Polytechnic Institute in 1944.
Career
He also received an Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and later an honorary doctorate from Rider University. Vonderschmitt began his career with Radio Corporation of America, and worked with them for 34 years, taking a short time during World World War II to serve in the United States Navy as an electronics officer He holds 13 patents that cover color television and solid state electronics.
After leaving Radio Corporation of America, he worked briefly for Zilog, before co-founding Xilinx together with Ross Freeman in 1984.
With Xilinx, he pioneered the fabless business model which is now used by a large number of semiconductor companies around the world. In 2002, he retired from Xilinx, with the company entrenched as the worldwide leader in Field-Programmable Gate Array marketshare.
On June 9, 2004 Vonderschmitt died in his hometown of Jasper, Indiana.
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