Berlin, Germany (January 28, 2010) – Today, Team Part-Time-Scientists announced Xilinx Inc. as an official sponsor of the team. The semiconductor industry leader is the world’s biggest provider of programmable platforms. As inventor of the first commercially viable field programmable gate array (FPGA), Xilinx provides the Part-Time Scientists with technology and know-how that put rovers on Mars and helped create ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) at CERN. Team Part-Time Scientists, headquartered in Berlin, Germany, with 38 team members is among 21 teams from 11 countries that are competing for their share of the $30 million prize purse.
“We’re happy to have a sponsor like Xilinx which approaches innovative projects with the same enthusiasm like us. Together we want to set a new standard for embedded development and high-frequency communication. We always use the most cutting edge technology available on the market. Having Xilinx as a sponsor is tremendous. With the wide variety of space grade circuits on their resumé, our development will improve even further,” said Team Leader Robert Boehme.
ABOUT XILINX
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions. For more information, go to their site: http://www.xilinx.com.
