Xilinx donates equipment to Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortium

The Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC) at UNM has received a $250,000 donation from Xilinx, a supplier of programmable chips and technology. The equipment will be donated to qualifying ISTEC member institutions to enable development of Digital Signal Processing research projects. It will also be used to set up a laboratory at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Cali-Colombia.

UNM electrical and computer engineering students under Dr. Ramiro Jordan, ISTEC director, and Dr. Marios Patticcis will provide Xilinx training based on their own research at the ECE Xilinx laboratory and the ISTEC research program at ECE at an upcoming Digital Signal Processing workshop at the Xilinx lab at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.

"This contribution is important in that it is the first of its kind coming from Xilinx and it will serve close to 20 universities in Latin America, mostly in the Andean region. It is important for UNM because it creates, through the faculty at ECE, a direct connection and link to researchers in the most prestigious universities in Latin America," said Jorge Garcia, program manager, ISTEC.

For more on the ISTEC R&D initiative at UNM-ECE, visit: http://rdlabs.istec.org/.

Contact: Carolyn Gonzales (505) 277-5920