Clay Johnson, vice president and general manager of the Hardwire Business Unit, is responsible for all aspects of the Hardwire program at Xilinx.  He joined Xilinx in 1990 and previously served as vice president of worldwide service and support.  Earlier, he worked as European marketing manager and director of support.  Before joining Xilinx, Johnson was director of customer support at Daisy Systems Corp. and a product engineer at Advanced Micro Devices.  He earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.