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Vincent Tong serves as senior vice president of worldwide quality and new product introductions. He is responsible for all aspects of quality assurance across Xilinx programmable solutions. His worldwide quality organization is chartered with driving continuous improvement of the company's corporate quality methodology for design, manufacture, training, measurement, and post-sale customer support for Xilinx products, and for reliability engineering of all product manufacturing technologies. In addition, Tong leads a global team to direct all new product introductions to achieve fastest time-to-market at the highest level of quality. Tong oversees the engineering teams responsible for test, package, assembly development, yield improvement and product engineering, in support of all new product introductions and mature products in production. Tong also manages advanced technology partnerships, overseeing all quality control and qualification programs and directing all continuous improvement initiatives with wafer foundries, subcontractors and other key technology suppliers (e.g., substrate suppliers, assembly, DFT and DFM vendors, ATE and semiconductor manufacturing equipment manufacturers). Tong joined Xilinx in 1990 after serving in a variety of development, design, fabrication technology, product and test engineering positions at Monolithic Memories and Advanced Micro Devices. Tong holds a B.S. in engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed the executive development program at Stanford Business School. He holds seven U.S. patents.