(April 23 - May 7) By Peter
Alfke Dir., Applications Engineering - Xilinx San
Jose
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Peter Alfke Director, Applications Engineering, Xilinx San
Jose
Peter Alfke came to the US in 1966,
with a German MSEE degree and nine years experience in digital
systems and circuit design at LM Ericsson and Litton Industries in
Sweden. He has been manager, later director of applications
engineering for over 30 years, at Fairchild, Zilog, AMD, and, since
1988, at Xilinx.
He holds thirteen patents, has
written many Application Notes, presented at numerous design
conferences, and has given many applications-oriented seminars in
the US and in Europe. He is an active participant in the best
newsgroup for FPGA users, comp.arch.fpga.
Ken
Chapman Staff Engineer, Core
Applications, Xilinx UK
Ken Chapman holds a first class BSc Degree with
honours in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University
of Surrey. Before obtaining his degree, he spent 4 years working in
production environments, making precision instruments and working
his way through all levels of a small electronics company. He spent
4 years at Racal Radar Defense Systems combining detailed digital
design with all aspects of system integration.
Ken joined the UK division of Xilinx in 1991,
and was instrumental in developing innovative methods of
implementing DSP functions in the Xilinx devices. He has filed
several patents while at Xilinx, including the 'MULT_AND' gate seen
in each Virtex™ and Spartan™-II device that has made multipliers and
other arithmetic functions smaller and faster.
Austin graduated from UC Berkeley in 1974
and 1975 with his BS EECS in Electromagnetic (E&M) Theory and MS
EECS in Communications and Information Theory. He has worked in the
telecommunications field for 20 years designing optical, microwave,
and copper- based transmission systems. He developed SONET/SDH
GPS-based Timing Systems for 12 of those years. At Xilinx, Austin is
part of the Virtex™-II IC Design Team.
