Cambridge, UK 13th June 2013: Plextek Consulting (Plextek) has announced today that it has earned a promotion to Premier tier in the Xilinx Alliance Program. This distinction elevates Plextek to among the top dozen Xilinx partners globally and confers significant benefits including elevated support and specialised training from Xilinx. With nearly 20 years’ experience delivering FPGA solutions to customers, Plextek has been recognised by Xilinx as its ideal partner to deliver full system level design and manufacturing service capabilities to existing and potential customers. Plextek is ISO9001 qualified and is recognised by clients for being unique in combining its consulting services with mature ‘design for manufacture’ and volume manufacturing capabilities.
In response to the growing impact of commercial market pressures, increasing numbers of technology companies are investigating how they may minimise business risk by outsourcing their design and manufacturing requirements. Partnering with a carefully selected organisation like Plextek, with such wide experience in innovation, design and manufacture, Xilinx can be sure that its customers will receive the support they need to be competitive and successful in their target markets. To become a Premier Design Services Partner, Plextek has successfully completed a detailed Xilinx audit, qualifying its business processes and confirming its ability to support Xilinx customers at the highest levels, and certifying engineers delivering systems and services focused on Xilinx All Programmable technologies.
Simon Cassia, CEO Plextek Consulting, commented: “Plextek is delighted to be engaging with Xilinx to jointly understand customers’ real business needs and to deliver industry leading, timely and cost effective Xilinx based solutions. Plextek has committed significant resources and completed an extensive audit process to ensure it meets the high expectations Xilinx’s has of its Premier Design Services Partners. This extension to our longstanding relationship with Xilinx has already led to new customer activities for us.”
“We are pleased to have Plextek as Premium Alliance member, based on their long history of successful projects with mutual customers, rigorous design methodologies and broad range of R&D from concept to production.” said Dave Tokic, Senior Director, Partner Ecosystems and Alliances at Xilinx, “Plextek combines systems expertise with hardware and software development skills on Xilinx All Programmable technologies, helping them remove risks to meet both project and end customer expectations, and deliver smarter solutions a Generation Ahead of alternative approaches.”
Plextek Consulting is proven in its ability to help its clients deliver often-complex real-time systems, cost effectively and on time. Highly experienced in Xilinx implementations, it has detailed hardware software and real-time image processing design and development skills, combined with the ability to create and manufacture fully qualified, deliverable board and systems level products. Often applying its own IP and innovative thinking, Plextek has successfully delivered real-time systems, including radar and wireless communications, automotive infotainment systems and bespoke signal processing solutions to the defence,
About Plextek Consulting
At the forefront of business and product innovation, Plextek develops and commercialises diverse technologies across a broad range of market sectors. It is the development partner of choice for 300+ major global organisations, government bodies and ambitious start up companies.
Established in 1989, Plextek has evolved from a pure ‘design house’ into an international multidisciplinary consultancy capable of transforming businesses and managing customers’ product through the entire product development cycle from concept to supply. It also has a proven track record for transforming entrepreneurial ideas into successful businesses
Website: http://www.plextek.com
About Plextek Group
Plextek Ltd was founded in 1989 as a technical consultancy that became recognised as Europe’s largest independent consultancy specialising in communications products and systems. In January 2013 Plextek restructured its business to create the Plextek Group, giving identity to seven separate business lines:
- Plextek Consulting – an expert consultancy with nearly a quarter century of experience in all areas of product innovation and design
- Plextek RF Integration – providing specialist design and development services for RFICs, MMICs and microwave/mm-wave modules
- Telensa – a provider of street lighting control infrastructure
- Blighter Surveillance Systems – a provider of electronic-scanning radar and sensor solutions
- Redtail Telematics – a sister company building on Plextek’s 5 million device legacy to now provide advanced telematics devices and data warehousing for fleet and insurance applications
- RedCloud Technology – a provider of internet marketplaces for financial services in developing markets
- Iceni Mobile Technology – a provider of innovative mobile services; for payments, micro-finance, commerce, trade, health and education
Website: www.plextek.com
