Motivation letter - Feedback highly appreciated!

Hi

Its a little bit a technical motivation letter, but I would be thankful for any useful feedback that I could get!

It will be sent with a resume. Many thanks!

Dear Sir or Madame,

Following an informative e-mail correspondence with Ms. Jennie Mustermann, I am writing to apply
for an internship in your CPU Design Group (Ref: XXXX). Since I have
been working in the field of computer science, XXX has always been known to me for
its wide range of excellent RISC microprocessors. Not surprisingly, we have in our
research group at the University of XXX two XXX development boards which we plan
to use for future projects. I am excited about the possibility of being an intern
with such a company.

During my first year as a PhD student at the university of XXX, I have acquired
skills and experiences highly relevant to the intership position in your CPU group. I
designed a first prototype of a 32-bit RISC microprocessor using the LISA machine
description language. The architecture is tailored towards efficient execution of
cryptographic workloads. The design has been sythesised with the Xilinx Sythesis
Technology for a Virtex-II FPGA and I used Xilinx's Chipscope for in-circuit
verification.

In addition, your work requires experience with a hardware description language. For
my master thesis project, I implemented a coprocessor in VHDL that performs high
speed elliptic curve cryptography. The results of this work were presented at the
Workshop on XXX.

To further acquaint you with the specifies of my background I am enclosing
my curriculum vitae. If you have any questions or require any additional information,
please feel free to contact me at 000-00000 or by e-mail Email Removed
I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,