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Career Stories: Donnacha Lowney, Xilinx

Donnacha Lowney pursued higher degrees before embarking on his career designing integrated circuits. You might have already used something he worked on!

  • Donnacha LowneyDonnacha Lowney
  • Staff Integrated Circuit Design Engineer
  • Xilinx

From an early age, Donnacha was interested in electronics and physics, and liked figuring out how things worked.

“I’d play with hobby electronics kits in school. I taught myself how they worked. A lot of my peers were also into playing around at home with a computer, either BBC Micros or Commodore 64. We would have been figuring out how they worked and writing little programmes.”

Read how Donnacha turned his hobby into his career

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Career Stories: Enda Behan, Xilinx

Enda Behan started out his career in the UK, before returning to Ireland to work in Xilinx. He says getting experience in a work environment during college is a help to young graduates.

  • Enda BehanEnda Behan
  • EMEA Product Applications Manager
  •  Xilinx

Enda knew he wanted to be an engineer as he always enjoyed Maths, Physics and Applied Maths, but he had a last-minute change of heart about his college course.

“I was originally interested in civil engineering and had a place in college but about a week before it started I decided I wanted to study outside of Ireland. I found a course in electronic engineering in Bangor University in North Wales and within days of making a call, I was on my way there.”

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