Xilinx (XLNX) will raise its quarterly dividend by 16.0 percent to $0.29 per share in 2014. Last year the dividend was hiked by 13.6 percent to 25 cents quarterly per share.

Xilinx, Inc. designs and develops programmable devices and associated technologies, including integrated circuits (ICs) in the form of programmable logic devices (PLDs), Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP), software design tools to program the PLDs, software development environments and embedded platforms, targeted reference designs, printed circuit boards and intellectual property (IP), which consists of Xilinx and various third-party verification and IP cores. Xilinx was founded and incorporated in California in February 1984 and has paid a dividend every year since 2004.