Peter Alfke

http://www.pldesignline.com/guest_blogs/219100182

After a long, and productive career, Peter is going to see to other
things.

He will be greatly missed here at Xilinx by all of us.

I am sure you will join me in wishing him all the best.

Now I am going to be greatly challenged to walk in his footsteps, and
continue his tradition of excellence here at Xilinx.

Austin

On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:23:34 -0700, austin wrote:

> http://www.pldesignline.com/guest_blogs/219100182
> 
> After a long, and productive career, Peter is going to see to other
> things.
> 
> He will be greatly missed here at Xilinx by all of us.
> 
> I am sure you will join me in wishing him all the best.
> 
> Now I am going to be greatly challenged to walk in his footsteps, and
> continue his tradition of excellence here at Xilinx.
> 
> Austin

All the best Peter Alfke!

I've always appreciated his wisdom and gentle didactic ways
and have greatly enjoyed and learned from his Xilinx papers and
posts here.

Peter Wallace 

On Aug 6, 10:00=A0pm, Peter Wallace <p...@www.karpy.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:23:34 -0700, austin wrote:
> >http://www.pldesignline.com/guest_blogs/219100182
>
> > After a long, and productive career, Peter is going to see to other
> > things.
>
> > He will be greatly missed here at Xilinx by all of us.
>
> > I am sure you will join me in wishing him all the best.
>
> > Now I am going to be greatly challenged to walk in his footsteps, and
> > continue his tradition of excellence here at Xilinx.
>
> > Austin
>
> All the best Peter Alfke!
>
> I've always appreciated his wisdom and gentle didactic ways
> and have greatly enjoyed and learned from his Xilinx papers and
> posts here.
>
> Peter Wallace




Peter galvanized many engineers to look beyond the obvious and
establish an
in depth understanding of the problems. It is always a great pleasure
in reading
his application notes and answers at this discussion forum.

I wish him health and pleasures in this new diemension of life.

Regards,
Moazzam

On Aug 7, 5:59=A0am, Moazzam <moazzamhuss...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 6, 10:00=A0pm, Peter Wallace <p...@www.karpy.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:23:34 -0700, austin wrote:
> > >http://www.pldesignline.com/guest_blogs/219100182
>
> > > After a long, and productive career, Peter is going to see to other
> > > things.
>
> > > He will be greatly missed here at Xilinx by all of us.
>
> > > I am sure you will join me in wishing him all the best.
>
> > > Now I am going to be greatly challenged to walk in his footsteps, and
> > > continue his tradition of excellence here at Xilinx.
>
> > > Austin
>
> > All the best Peter Alfke!
>
> > I've always appreciated his wisdom and gentle didactic ways
> > and have greatly enjoyed and learned from his Xilinx papers and
> > posts here.
>
> > Peter Wallace
>
> Peter galvanized many engineers to look beyond the obvious and
> establish an
> in depth understanding of the problems. It is always a great pleasure
> in reading
> his application notes and answers at this discussion forum.
>
> I wish him health and pleasures in this new diemension of life.
>
> Regards,
> Moazzam

I'll declare I'm a Xilinx employee, but only for the last 5-6 years
and I've been using Xilinx devices for the past 20 years, my whole
career so far, on and off.  During that whole time, I've followed
Peter's output both on the internet and in print (before there even
was a "web"!), and his articles and postings have been highly
informative and enjoyable (often helping to steer me in the right
direction in the early days!)  I never had the pleasure to meet him,
being based in Scotland, but I found most of all that I warmed very
much to his gentle tutorial style, his obvious enthusiasm and a kindly
nature.  I wish him all the best in his retirement (although I fully
expect he'll still be around and contributing, albeit less officially
than before!)

All the best, Peter.
Cheers,
Steve

Peter has been a great help for all of us here and even one of the reasons 
to choose Xilinx over their competition. I wish him well and hope that there 
is someone at Xilinx ready to pick up where he left! :)


/Mikhail 

On Aug 6, 9:23=A0am, austin <aus...@xilinx.com> wrote:
> http://www.pldesignline.com/guest_blogs/219100182
>
> After a long, and productive career, Peter is going to see to other
> things.
>
> He will be greatly missed here at Xilinx by all of us.
>
> I am sure you will join me in wishing him all the best.
>
> Now I am going to be greatly challenged to walk in his footsteps, and
> continue his tradition of excellence here at Xilinx.
>
> Austin

Best of luck to you!

Peter will be missed.

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 07:23:34 -0700 (PDT), austin@xilinx.com wrote:

> After a long, and productive career, Peter is going to
> see to other things.

If there is any justice in the world, that's going to be
one hell of a retirement party.

Peter has done the same thing for FPGAs that Horowitz 
and Hill did for analog electronics: impeccable clarity
of thought, allied to impeccable clarity of presentation.

Way back, I admired the thoroughness and readability of
those Zilog data sheets (remember the 8530 SCC?) without
ever knowing who created them.  Now I know, and I still
admire (and often wish I could do half as well).  In 
these days of gratuitous complexity and obfuscation, 
Peter's ability to make difficult things look easy without
sacrificing rigour is of the greatest value and, as others
have said, will be sadly missed.

Thanks, and best wishes.
-- 
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austin <austin@xilinx.com> wrote:
< http://www.pldesignline.com/guest_blogs/219100182
 
< After a long, and productive career, Peter is going to see 
< to other things.
 
< He will be greatly missed here at Xilinx by all of us.
 
< I am sure you will join me in wishing him all the best.

When I was in graduate school one day in the lounge they had
a retirement ceremony for a professor.  There was cake and punch
(sure to attract students), and some words about his work and
how much he would be missed.  In the end, was some thing like
"we hope this won't interfere too much with your work."

I do hope that once in a while he will still read and post
to comp.arch.fpga.   Bet yes, I wish him the best!

thanks for all your contributions.

-- glen

austin <austin@xilinx.com> wrote:

>http://www.pldesignline.com/guest_blogs/219100182
>
>After a long, and productive career, Peter is going to see to other
>things.
>
>He will be greatly missed here at Xilinx by all of us.
>
>I am sure you will join me in wishing him all the best.
>
>Now I am going to be greatly challenged to walk in his footsteps, and
>continue his tradition of excellence here at Xilinx.

Well, if Peter is no longer employed by Xilinx he is free to post
whatever he wants in this newsgroup :-)


-- 
Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply
indicates you are not using the right tools...
                     "If it doesn't fit, use a bigger hammer!"
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On Aug 8, 2:26=A0pm, n...@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel) wrote:

>
> Well, if Peter is no longer employed by Xilinx he is free to post
> whatever he wants in this newsgroup :-)
>
Nico, I was never ever held back, censored or reprimanded by Xilinx
management.
After the end of this month I will no longer be an employee, but still
a shareholder of Xilinx.
And I owe this company a lot of gratitude, financial, intellectual,
and emotional.
It was "the best years of my life".
So don't expect me to divulge any "dirty secrets", whatever you might
imagine them to be.

And thanks for all the friendly comments that came in. Feels like a
eulogy...
Peter