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Xilinx donates 50 licenses to Ashesi

Xilinx recently donated 50 licenses to the latest version of their ISE Design Suit to Ashesi’s Computer Science department. In addition, the organization also donated 5 Digilent Basys2 design boards which are development kits based on Spartan 3 FPGA.

Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions. Their programmable chips are the innovation platform of choice for today’s leading companies for the design of tens of thousands of products that improve the quality of our everyday lives.

The Computer Science department of Ashesi has been using Xilinx’s ISE Design Suit and Spartan 3 FPGA boards to train students in computer organization, architecture and embedded system designing. Xilinx has been supporting the department since 2005 by providing free licenses to its development tools.

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