Yeah its funny how alumni play the a role in the tech that gets used. I know that there was a lot of Xilinx in use on campus. I didn't do anything with FPGAs outside of the one class so I wondered how much of that was based on technical merit, etc. vs the fact that one of the Xilinx co-founders was a Rose-Hulman Alumn.
That class and Xilinx still haunt me. My team failed that project. Two of my three teammates couldn't grok Xilinx and gave up. That class catalyzed my decision to transfer out of Rose-Hulman.
