Speaker Bios

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Dennis Kish, Senior VP Sales and Marketing, Actel
Mr. Kish has been with Actel since 1999 and was Vice President of Marketing prior to taking on the Sales and Marketing role in 2006. He has 20 years of marketing, sales and engineering experience in the semiconductor and electronic design automation industries. Prior to joining Actel in 1999, Kish held senior management positions at Synopsys and Atmel. He began his career in the engineering and sales organizations of Texas Instruments. Kish earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University.

Bryce Mackin, Strategic Marketing Manager, CSTMM Business Unit, Altera
Bryce Mackin has more than 10 years of computer, networking and storage experience with companies such as 3COM, Adaptec and Altera. He has been responsible for working on a variety of products including Networking, SCSI, RAID, Fibre Channel and TCP/IP Offload / iSCIS. Currently, he has been driving the FPGA High Performance computing vision at Altera and is a strong believer in the HyperTransport protocol as a key factor in the development of High Performance computing solutions.

Colin Macnab, CEO, Artimi
Colin has more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor and systems market related to the wireless communications industry. Colin was most recently vice president marketing and business development at Atheros, where he was part of the team that took the company public in 2004. Prior to Atheros, Colin was founder and CEO of Morphics Technology, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company that developed the first wireless signal processor to support multiple standard cellular communications including most 3G standards. Morphics was acquired by Infineon in 2003. He was also founder and CEO of BMA Communications, a strategic services group that focused exclusively on wireless communications and wireless technology acquisitions for a portfolio of clients that included National Semiconductor, IBM Microelectronics, Philips and Fujitsu. Earlier in his career Colin held engineering and management positions at Xircom, GEC Plessey, Linear Technology and Analog Devices. Colin holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Henry Samueli, Ph.D., CTO, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Broadcom
Dr. Henry Samueli is Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Broadcom Corporation. Dr. Samueli has over 25 years of experience in the fields of communications systems engineering and digital signal processing.
Dr. Samueli has served as CTO since the Company's inception in August 1991. He served as Co-Chairman from August 1991 until May 2003 and Chairman since May 2003. He also served as Vice President of Research & Development from August 1991 until March 2003. Since 1985 Dr. Samueli has been a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he has supervised advanced research programs in broadband communications circuits and digital signal processing, and he has published over 100 technical papers in these areas. Dr. Samueli has been on a leave of absence from UCLA since 1995. Dr. Samueli was the Chief Scientist and one of the founders of PairGain Technologies, Inc., a telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the digital subscriber line (DSL) industry, and he consulted for PairGain from 1988 to 1994. From 1980 until 1985 Dr. Samueli was employed in various engineering management positions in the Electronics and Technology Division of TRW, Inc., where he was responsible for the development of military broadband communications systems.
Dr. Samueli received a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a named inventor in 22 U.S. patents. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Steve Carlson, VP Product Marketing, Digital Implementation, Cadence Design Systems
Mr. Carlson is focused on marketing the solution front-end digital design teams. He joined Cadence in April 2003 via the Get2Chip acquisition, where he was the vice president of marketing. Prior to Get2Chip, Mr. Carlson was the chief executive officer of Tharas Systems, a hardware acceleration company. He has also held various management positions at Escalade, LSI Logic, United Technologies, and Synopsys. At Synopsys, he was a part of the original design compiler technical team, and he authored the industry's first book on HDL-based design.

Elie Massabki, Vice President of Marketing, ChipX
Elie Massabki joined ChipX in April 2004 as Vice President of Marketing. He has nearly 20 years of experience in product marketing and management, most notably in communications IC marketing. In his most recent position, prior to joining ChipX, Mr. Massabki was Executive Director of Marketing at Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. [Nasdaq: MSPD], a spin-off of Conexant Systems, Inc. [Nasdaq: CNXT]. There he led the company into the VoIP enterprise market and increased Mindspeed's presence from virtually nothing to a market-leading position in design wins. Mr. Massabki's prior experience also includes positions with HotRail (acquired by Conexant), VLSI, and IDT.
Mr. Massabki holds an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University and a B.S.E.E. from California State University at Long Beach.

Dinesh Ramanathan, Ex VP of the Data Communication Division, Cypress
Before joining Cypress, Ramanathan held senior management positions at Raza Microelectronics and Raza Foundries. While at Raza Foundries, an incubating venture capital company, he was an observer on the board of Trebia Networks (acquired by Emulex) and SiSilk Networks (acquired by Raza Microelectronics). Ramanathan gained experience in design and VLSI CAD while working at Forte Design Systems and Synopsys Inc.
Ramanathan holds a Ph.D degree in Information and Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine. He also holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a master's degree in Mathematics from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) at Pilani in India . Ramanathan has published several articles in the areas of timing and power optimization for embedded systems, online algorithms and the design of distributed computer systems.

Larry Laurich, President and CEO, DRC Computer
Larry Laurich has a proven track record in management, business development, equity raising, M&A activity, marketing, and sales at some of the industry’s most visible companies and startups. Laurich is currently president, CEO and co-founder of DRC Computer Corporation, a startup company delivering coprocessor systems for accelerating high-performance applications. Earlier in his career, Laurich was VP and GM of Tandem Computer’s System Division where he helped grow the business from $10 million to $1.6 billion. Laurich was also in senior-level engineering management positions at IBM. Additionally, he was president and CEO of N-Light Systems, a startup in the optical communications space; Vision Solutions, a software provider for high availability systems; and, IPMobileNet, a VOIP wireless communications company.

Hugh Durdan, VP Marketing, eSilicon Corporation
Hugh Durdan brings more than 25 years of systems, semiconductor and ASIC business experience to eSilicon. Prior to joining the company, Durdan served as vice president of the CCI and Technical Services business group at Altera Corporation, where he drove revenue from $350 million to $550 million in two years, booked more than $1 billion worth of design wins and spear-headed Altera’s expansions into the digital consumer market. Prior to this, Durdan served at LSI Logic as the vice present and general manager of the Computer and Consumer divisions. Prior to joining LSI Logic, Durdan was the vice president of engineering at Mylex, a RAID and SCSI host adapter company. Durdan started his career at Digital Equipment Corporation with roles in marketing and engineering management. He holds a BSCE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Wayne Chavez, Global Automotive Microcontroller Product Manager, Transportation & Standard Products Group, Freescale Semiconductor
Wayne Chavez is a global automotive microcontroller (MCU) product manager for Freescale’s Transportation & Standard Products Group. In this role, Wayne drives global product strategy for the company’s 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit MCU architectures for next-generation vehicle systems. A 16-year employee of Freescale/Motorola, he previously has held a wide range of product marketing responsibilities for 8/16-bit MCUs in the Americas Automotive market. His technical background in the global automotive business spans the gamut of semiconductor technologies, from low-power 8-bit devices to high-performance 32-bit RISC MCUs to MEMS-based accelerometers to analog devices. Wayne holds a BSEE from the University of New Mexico and an MBA from St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas.

Earl T Bender, Director Advanced Sensors and Microsystems, Honeywell
With degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics as well as granted and pending patents, Mr. Earl T. Benser is a sought-after executive, author and speaker. His many published and co-published papers range from Laser and Electro-Optics to IR/MMW common aperture optics and MEMS technology.
His career at Honeywell spans for 25 years and includes years as a research scientist, IP Property management and Licensing to his current position as Director, Advanced Sensors and Microsystems.

Mario Cavalli, General Manager, HyperTransport Consortium
Mario Cavalli is responsible for directing the industry strategy, technology promotion activites, membership development and overall business and finances of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. Mario is an experienced industry executive with 30 years of involvement in advanced semiconductor and computer system technology and over 20 years of executive management expertise in the U.S. and Europe.
As President of Business Development International, a company he founded in 1990, Mario developed considerable executive level involvement with the worldwide electronics industry and played a key role in the launch of innovative semiconductor and computer technologies into global markets for U.S. and European companies, resulting in two successful IPOs.
Mario's former responsibilities include Executive Vice President of International Sales for Selectica, a leading supplier of enterprise software platforms for e-commerce applications and the direction of Ing. C. Olivetti & C., S.p.A.'s advanced PC technology acquisition program. Mario holds a BSEE degree and his technical background ranges from microprocessor system design to software development.

Warren Savage, President & CEO, Founder, IPextreme
Mr. Savage began his career in Silicon Valley at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1979 in the Sentry division developing semiconductor test equipment. From 1982-1995 he worked as an engineering manager for Tandem Computers, focused on the development of fault-tolerant mini-mainframes and IO subsystems and there developed an interest in advanced design methodologies around high reliability design. In 1995, he was recruited by Synopsys to head its DesignWare engineering organization and incorporated many design practices and quality measures from Tandem which eventually became part of the Reuse Methodology Manual, a seminal book on Intellectual Property design. Mr. Savage later went on to work with leading microprocessor companies such as ARM, IBM, Infineon, NEC, and MIPS to assist with the redesign of legacy microprocessors to prepare them for broad commercial licensing. In 2001, he created and ran a strategic initiative within the Synopsys IP Business Unit called the Star IP Program that provided an IP brokering function for major semiconductors that wished to use the Synopsys marketing channel to promote their internal IP to a 3rd-party market. Mr. Savage is a well-known and published authority in the field of semiconductor intellectual property. IPextreme was founded in January 2004. Education: BS Computer Engineering, Santa Clara University; MBA, Pepperdine University.

Craig Somach, Director of Sales, Laird Technologies
Craig Somach has more than 25 years in the RF and Wireless industries, where he has held various technical, sales and management roles. Joining Laird Technologies in 2004, Mr. Somach is currently responsible for worldwide sales for Laird’s wireless products group. Previously, Mr. Somach served as the Director of North American Sales for Aethra Inc. as well working for REMEC Inc. for over 7 years in the capacity of divisional General Manager and Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Mr. Somach began his career as a design and applications engineer for Watkins-Johnson Company and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Paul Stus, Global Business Director, Laird Technologies
Paul J. Stus is the global business director for the EMI strategic business group at Laird Technologies. He is currently responsible for developing, implementing, and managing global business growth objectives, strategies, and P&L for Laird Technologies’ EMI business unit. Stus joined Laird Technologies in 1997 as global technology manager. He led the development and launching of new products and processes globally. He has consistently been promoted throughout the Laird Technologies’ organization and has held positions such as global product director and director of sales. Prior to Laird Technologies, Stus began his career at Monsanto Company, where he worked his way from process engineer to operations unit leader to senior research engineer. Stus graduated from Wayne State University with a BS in chemical engineering and has an MBA degree from Washington University.

Michael W. Sund, Vice President Communications & Investor Relations, Maxwell Technologies
Mike Sund joined Maxwell in March 1999, assuming responsibility for corporate communications and investor relations. Previously, he spent six years in a similar role with Mycogen Corp., an agricultural biotechnology company that was acquired by The Dow Chemical Company in November 1998. Over the previous 20 years he held several media and corporate and agency communications positions and was the principal of his own public relations consulting firm.

Bill Chown, Product Group Director, Mentor Graphics
Bill Chown, currently a product group director for the system-level engineering division at Mentor Graphics, moved to the semiconductor industry with Intersil Semiconductors, where he went from designing mixed signal and DSP systems, at chip and board level in the UK, to managing projects through to layout and production test. He subsequently worked in EDA and test software development in Europe and the US with Mentor Graphics, Summit Design/TSSI, Integrated Measurement Systems and Credence. A twenty-five year industry veteran, Bill currently specializes in TLM and RTL platform-based design and verification. He has been involved with standards activities for several years, serving in the CFI, ECSI, and STIL initiatives, is past chair of the TTTC TAC on Virtual Test, is currently a member of the STIL working group, and is a board member for The SPIRIT Consortium and for OMG. Bill earned an Electronic Engineering degree from the University of Wales and an MBA from the University of Oregon.

Walden C. Rhines, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mentor Graphics
Walden C. Rhines, 60, is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mentor Graphics, a leader in worldwide electronic design automation with revenue of $792 million in 2006. During his tenure at Mentor Graphics, revenue has more than doubled, growth rate over the last five years has been number one among the “Big 3” EDA companies and Mentor has grown the industry’s number one market share solutions in physical verification and analysis, design concept-through-functional verification and printed circuit board design.
Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, Rhines was Executive Vice President of Texas Instruments’ Semiconductor Group, sharing responsibility for TI’s Components Sector, and having direct responsibility for the entire semiconductor business with more than $5 billion of revenue and over 30,000 people.
During his 21 years at TI, Rhines managed TI’s thrust into digital signal processing and supervised that business from inception with the TMS 320 family of DSP’s through growth to become the cornerstone of TI’s semiconductor technology. He was also responsible for development of the first TI speech synthesis devices (used in “Speak & Spell”) and is co-inventor of the GaN blue-violet light emitting diode (now important for DVD players). He was President of TI’s Data Systems Group and held numerous other semiconductor executive management positions.
Rhines served as chairman of the Semiconductor Technical Advisory Committee of the Department of Commerce, as an executive committee member of the board of directors of the Corporation for Open Systems and as a board member of the Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers' Association (CBEMA), SEMI-Sematech/SISA, Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDAC), University of Michigan National Advisory Council and Sematech. He seved three two-year terms as Chairman of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium and is currently Vice-Chairman. He is also currently a Board member of the Semiconductor Research Corporation, the Portland Classic Wine Auction and Lewis and Clark College.
Dr. Rhines holds a bachelor of science degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Michigan, a master of science and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Stanford University, a master of business administration from Southern Methodist University and an Honorary Doctor of Technology degree from Nottingham Trent University.

Jack Browne, Vice President of Marketing, MIPS Technologies, Inc.
Mr. Browne joined MIPS Technologies in 2001 as director of market development, drawing on more than 25 years of industry experience in sales, marketing and engineering, primarily in Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector. In 2002, he was appointed vice president of worldwide sales, and assumed the position of vice president of marketing in 2005.
As the head of Motorola's 68000 marketing team, he helped establish the 68000 as a leading 32-bit embedded architecture in the 1980s and early 1990s, with revenues topping $500 million. In the 1990s, he was instrumental in gaining market share for PowerPC processors and growing overall revenue to $1.3 billion dollars through such roles as vice president of North American sales, vice president of the computer segment, and vice president of operations and vice president of marketing for Motorola's High Performance division. In 2000, he joined Wyle Electronics, which was subsequently acquired by Arrow Electronics, where he was responsible for growing their embedded processor, IP and design services businesses.
An acknowledged industry spokesman, Mr. Browne has written more than 50 papers for industry publications and presented at more than 30 industry conferences. He holds a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Texas.

Michael Sydow, VP SIP Marketing, MOSAID
Michael Sydow is the Vice President of SIP Marketing for MOSAID, focused on MOSAID's high performance, analog and mixed signal semiconductor intellectual property products, designed for the SoC market. Prior to joining to joining MOSAID, Sydow held key positions including Vice President of Customer Engineering and, prior to that, Vice President of Marketing at Lightspeed Logic. Mr. Sydow also held a position as the Director of ASIC Technology Development for Mitsubishi Electric. Prior to Mitsubishi he held various management and engineering positions at Intel, Convex Computer Corporation and MOSTEK Corporation. Mr. Sydow holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nebraska.

Peng K. Lim, CEO, MTI
Mr. Lim, a Director of the board for MTI and MTI Micro and President and Chief Executive Officer of MTI Micro since May 8, 2006 became Chief Executive Officer of MTI effective December 1, 2006. Prior to MTI Micro, Peng served as the President and CEO of Tapwave, Inc., a company he founded. He was behind the development of the Zodiac, a portable electronic multimedia device that won multiple awards including, "Best Gear" by Time Magazine in 2003. Prior to Tapwave, Peng served as Vice President, Worldwide Product Development for Palm Computing where he was responsible for directing the entire life cycle of product development and engineering for Palm handheld products, operating system and application software. While at Palm, he helped capture 75% worldwide handheld operating system and 65% PDA market shares and quadrupled annual revenues to greater than $1.5 billion. Peng was also part of the executive team that led Palm to a successful IPO in 2000. Prior to Palm, Peng was VP of Engineering at Fujitsu Personal Systems where he introduced industry-leading pen-based and wireless computers that captured a 56% market share. Prior to his tenure at Fujitsu, Peng served as Engineering Platform Director at Texas Instruments and as Director of Advanced Portable Engineering at Zenith Data Systems. In both positions he introduced important innovations in state-of-the-art portable computers. Peng serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Novatel Wireless, a leading 3G wireless solutions company since 2001 and Board of Advisors for Inventec Appliances, a multibillion dollars ODM company since 2006. Peng holds a B.S. and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Windsor (Ontario, Canada) and a Master of Engineering Management from Northwestern University. Peng is an alumnus of the Stanford Executive Program for Growing Companies at Stanford University.

Thomas Li, Senior Marketing Department Manager for Asia, Novas
Thomas Li is the Sr. Marketing Department Manager for Novas in Asia. At Novas, Thomas manages the product development roadmap and Asia marketing development. Thomas has been in the EDA industry more then 12 years. Prior to joining Novas, Thomas worked at Mentor Graphics managing the Asia Pac Technical Marketing team.

George Yokoi, Sr. Mgr MEMS Sensors/Applications, Olympus
George Yokoi of OLYMPUS-Japan has rich experience in Electronics, Mechatronics, Semiconductor field, and now focusing MEMS Technology which is offering
"MEMS Global Alliances" to promote "MEMS Sensors", "Consumer Electronics", "Bio/Healthcare" and "Micro/Nano Measurement Technology".

Dr. Naveed Sherwani, Co-Founder, President & CEO, Open-Silicon
Dr. Sherwani brings over 19 years of experience in technical engineering and general management to his position as President and CEO of Open-Silicon. Prior to co-founding Open-Silicon, Dr. Sherwani was the founder and General Manager of Intel Microelectronics Services where he led efforts to promote the use of disciplined ASIC methodologies to improve design efficiency and time-to-market.
Naveed co-architected the Intel microprocessor design methodology and environment that has been used in various leading microprocessors. Prior to joining Intel, he worked as a consultant for various telecommunications and computer companies, mainly focusing on ASIC design flow and cell library design to improve time-to-market. He also served as a Professor at Western Michigan University, where his research concentrated on VLSI Physical Design Automation, combinatorics, and graph algorithms.
Dr. Sherwani is the author of the main textbook on Physical Design, which is widely used at major universities around the world. In addition, he has authored or co-authored 3 books and over 100 articles on various aspects of Physical Design Automation and ASICs.
In last 15 years, he has been a frequent speaker at DAC, ICCAD, International Conference on VLSI and other major conferences around the world.
Dr. Sherwani received his Ph.D from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

JM Sung, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Consumer & Mobile Memory, Qimonda North America Corp.
Mr. Sung is responsible for marketing activities for CellularRAM, MobileRAM and Consumer in Qimonda’s Consumer & Mobile DRAM product lines.
Before joining Qimonda in 2002, Mr. Sung held Memory R&D engineering and Technical & Strategic marketing manager positions in Hynix Semiconductor for more than 12 years, in Korea and US.
He graduated an engineering B.S degree in In Ha University based in Seoul, Korea.

Andrew McCraith, Co-founder, Silicon Clocks
Andrew helped the technical founders refine the business plan, executed the fund-raising strategy and established operations. He created relationships with initial customers, partners and foundries, and executed the company’s initial licensing and development agreements. He is currently responsible for the company’s marketing and business development efforts worldwide. Andrew received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) from the Walter A. Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

John McDonald, VP of Sales and Marketing, SiTime
John McDonald came to SiTime from Cypress MicroSystems (CMS), a Cypress Semiconductor funded startup and makers of the popular PSoC microcontroller family. As VP of Marketing ('01-'05), he led a great worldwide marketing and applications team that grew the PSoC product family to be the fast-growing and high-margin success it is today. Prior to CMS, Mr. McDonald worked for Cypress Semiconductor and was part of the general-purpose and programmable clock marketing group ('98-'01) during a period in which non-acquisition sales grew by more than 5x. Mr. McDonald has also worked for Analog Devices in the Precision Op Amp group and as an advanced analog design engineer for 6 years in Washington State. John has his BSEE from the University of Washington, and has authored numerous technical articles.

Grant Pierce, President & CEO, Sonics
Mr. Pierce has more than 20 years of management experience in technology companies. Prior to founding Sonics, he was Vice President and General Manager, client systems at MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc. Mr. Pierce joined MicroUnity in 1990 as CFO and negotiated more than $150 million in funding via 10 partnerships with major US and international corporations. Previously he held senior management positions at the founding stages of MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. and ParcPlace Systems, Inc.

Craig Lytle, President & CEO, Stretch Inc.
Craig Lytle joined Stretch in April 2006, bringing with him nearly 20 years' experience in the FPGA and programmable logic industry. Prior to coming to Stretch, Lytle was Vice President of System Engineering at Altera Corporation, where he was responsible for the company's IP, system-level tools, and end-market solutions. Lytle also founded and ran Altera’s Intellectual Property (IP) Business Unit. As head of that business unit, he created and drove the company's embedded and IP strategies including building an industry leading IP portfolio, creating an innovative soft-core embedded processor solution, cultivating multiple partnership programs and expanding the division into a worldwide organization. Lytle began his career at Altera as an Applications engineer, became its first Field Application Engineer, then rose through the sales, engineering, product planning, marketing and executive ranks.
Lytle earned bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University and in management engineering from Claremont McKenna College in Los Angeles. He has been awarded more than 20 patents in programmable logic technology and its applications.

Gary Meyers, President & CEO, Synplicity
Gary Meyers has been President and CEO of Synplicity since October 2004. During his tenure Synplicity has re-focused on its core FPGA products, improved operating margins from 1% in 2003 to over 10% in 2006, expanded international R&D efforts, and grown market share and customer satisfaction. Mr. Meyers joined Synplicity in January 1998 and served as vice president, worldwide sales since November 1999. In that role, Mr. Meyers was instrumental in increasing sales by more than a factor of ten and expanding the direct sales team throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
Prior to joining Synplicity, Mr. Meyers was the director of marketing for the Communication Products Division of LSI Logic Corporation. Mr. Meyers also spent seven years at LSI Logic in major account and geographic sales management roles. Before LSI Logic, Mr. Meyers worked as an ASIC designer at TRW, Inc.
Mr. Meyers holds a BSEE, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Maryland and an MBA from UCLA and serves on the board of directors of Synplicity and SpiraTech, Ltd.

Steven Leibson, Technology Evangelist, Tensilica, Inc.
Steven formerly served as the Vice President of Content and Editor in Chief of the Microprocessor Report, Editor in Chief of EDN Magazine, and Founding Editor in Chief of Embedded Developers Journal magazine. He has conducted many seminars and tutorials on system design around the world, has written hundreds of articles that appeared in many of the world’s industry trade magazines, has won many industry awards for his writing.
He published the book “Designing SOCs with Configured Cores” in 2006, which discusses the concepts of IP-driven and processor-centric SOC design for the 21st century. This book advocates across-the-board advances in system design, leaving behind antiquated ASIC design styles that are now almost two decades old. In 1982, Leibson published a very different book about microprocessor-based system design titled “The Handbook of Microcomputer Interfacing,” which introduced system designers to the then-new concepts of microprocessor interface protocols and standards. That book was published in English, French, and Dutch and was used as a college-level textbook for many years. Since then, Leibson has developed and presented many microprocessor seminars and organized and ran the Microprocessor and Embedded Processor Forums while at the Microprocessor Report. He received his degree from Case Western Reserve University and then worked in industry as a design engineer and engineering manager for leading-edge system-design companies including as Hewlett-Packard and Cadnetix before becoming a journalist. Leibson is an IEEE Senior Member.

Steve Roddy, VP Marketing, Tensilica
Steve joined Tensilica in 2000. Prior to Tensilica, he served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Amphion Semiconductor. He has also held management positions at Cadence, Synopsys, LSI Logic and AMCC.

Chris Rowen, Ph.D., Founder, President and CEO, Tensilica
A pioneer of the RISC architecture. Chris previously was Vice President for Microprocessor Development at MIPS Computer Systems. Most recently, he was Vice President and General Manager of the Design Reuse Group of Synopsys.

Ray Burgess, President and CEO, TeraVicta
Ray Burgess has extensive experience in corporate leadership and general management with more than 25 years in the semiconductor industry. Mr. Burgess joined the TeraVicta team as President and CEO in November 2006 after spending a year as CEO of Tao Group, a UK company delivering multimedia software solutions to the wireless industry. Mr. Burgess spent over 20 years with the Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector and was a member of the executive team that led the company through its transition to Freescale Semiconductor and its successful IPO in July 2004. From the end of 2000 through to the IPO, he was senior vice president of strategy and marketing. During his career at Motorola, Mr. Burgess held a number of leadership positions in Europe and the USA. Before joining Motorola, Mr. Burgess spent four years at Texas Instruments. Mr. Burgess currently serves on the Board of Directors of Zoran Corporation and served on the Board of Directors of Tao Group from 1996 to 2006.

Dr. Hans Stork, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Texas Instruments
Dr. Stork is Senior Vice President, and Chief Technology officer, of Texas Instruments. As Director of the Silicon Technology Development organization, his primary responsibilities are the development of advanced CMOS, packaging and mixed signal process technologies. He joined Texas Instruments in September 2001, as Vice President and Director of Silicon Technology Research.
Prior to joining Texas Instruments, Dr. Stork was Director of the Internet Systems and Storage Lab at HP Laboratories, Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, California from 1999 until 2001. The IS&S Lab focused on highly scalable, dynamic, federated computer and storage systems.
After joining Hewlett-Packard in 1994, Dr. Stork held the position of Director of the ULSI Research Lab between 1995 and 1999.
Dr. Stork started his professional career in 1982 at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, researching advanced bipolar technology and circuits.

Kathy Werner, President, VSI Alliance
Kathy Werner is the president of the VSI Alliance, the leading industry organization for IP standards. Kathy has chaired the VSI Alliance Quality IP Pillar for the past six years and during this time, the first Quality IP (QIP) Metric was introduced. As the Freescale Semiconductor IP Strategy and Business Manager, Kathy is responsible for IP coordination, standardization and quality. Prior to this role, Kathy was a Reuse Consulting Manager for Mentor Graphics, working with global semiconductor companies to define and implement internal reuse programs. Kathy is also the chair for the DesignCon IP Business and Engineering Impacts track.

Siby Abraham, Vice President, Semiconductor and Consumer Electronics Business Unit, Wipro Technologies
Siby Abraham joined Wipro Infotech R&D in 1987 after completing his post graduation from IIT Kanpur. Starting his career as an R&D engineer, Siby was part of the team that spearheaded Wipro's early foray into the Global Design Service space. In his capacity as Project Manager and later Technical manager, Siby led teams working on some of the most complex designs for some of the crucial customer engagements.
Siby was also the Engineering Manager for EnThink, an entity carved out of Wipro VLSI's team, to create a separate focus for Semiconductor IP business and played a crucial part in establishing Wipro's name as a leading supplier of 1394 IPs. After EnThink was merged back to Wipro's VLSI team, Siby focused on some of the strategic initiatives and relationships for Wipro's VLSI team. During this stint, Siby also oversaw the definition, creation and deployment of EagleWision, Wipro's own VLSI design methodology.
In the last 5 years, Siby has been heading the Semiconductor Business Unit for Wipro Technologies and has built this to a $100m business and today, Wipro has about 1500+ engineers working for 10 of the top 12 Semiconductor companies. Since 2005, Siby has also handled overall responsibility of Wipro's Consumer Electronics Business in addition to Semiconductor Business.

Alun Roberts, VP Marketing, WiQuest Communications
Mr. Roberts joined WiQuest in April 2006 from AMI Semiconductor Inc., where he was responsible for marketing strategy. During his time at AMI, he redefined the company’s approach to application specific standard products (ASSPs), leading to the acquisition of DSPfactory Ltd, and the rejuvenation of the company’s signal processing capability. Previously, he was at Legerity Inc., where he grew the company’s analog business over 3X and defined and launched new leading edge broadband components. Alun spent most of his career at Texas Instruments, where he built a new capability to attack the high performance analog marketplace, and was a driving force behind the acquisition of Burr-Brown and Unitrode. He has broad international experience, having managed operations in 3 countries, and has a BSEE degree from the University of Wales.

Harvey Steele, General Manager Automotive Division, Xilinx
Harvey Steele is general manager of the Automotive Division at Xilinx. Within this role, he is responsible for strategy, product planning, engineering, marketing, system architecture and solutions activities. This includes the Xilinx Automotive (XA) product line management and development of automotive-centric partners for application specific IP and solutions.
Steele joined Xilinx in 2004 after holding a number of senior sales and marketing positions at ON Semiconductor, Analog Devices, and ST Microelectronics. He has been involved in the automotive electronics business worldwide for more than 20 years, including time at Ford Motor Company’s Electronic Products Division in design engineering and quality.
Steele holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University.

Guest Speaker: Henry S. Rowen, SI Senior Fellow Emeritus; Co-director, SPRIE; Director-Emeritus, Shorenstein APARC
Henry S. Rowen is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a professor of Public Policy and Management emeritus at the Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a senior fellow emeritus of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Rowen is an expert on international security, economic development, and high tech industries in the U.S. and Asia. His current research focuses on the rise of Asia in high technologies.
In 2004-05, Rowen served on the Presidential Commission on the Intelligence of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. From 2001-04, he served on the Secretary of Defense Policy Advisory Board. Rowen was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the U.S. Department of Defense from 1989 to 1991. He was also chairman of the National Intelligence Council from 1981 to 1983. Rowen served as president of the RAND Corporation from 1967 to 1972 and was assistant director, U.S. Bureau of the Budget, from 1965 to 1966.
Rowen's most recent work is co-editing Making IT: The Rise of Asia in High Tech (forthcoming from Stanford University Press, 2006). He co-edited The Silicon Valley Edge: A Habitat for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2000); Behind East Asian Growth: The Political and Social Foundations of Prosperity (1998); and Defense Conversion, Economic Reform, and the Outlook for the Russian and Ukrainian Economies (1994), which he co-edited with Hoover fellow Charles Wolf and Jeanne Zlotnick. Among his articles are "Kim Jong-Il Must Go,"Policy Review (2003); "The Short March: China's Road to Democracy," National Interest (1996); "Inchon in the Desert: My Rejected Plan,," National Interest (1995); "The Tide underneath the 'Third Wave,'" Journal of Democracy (1995); and "Vietnam Made Him,"National Interest (1995/96).
Born in Boston in 1925, Rowen earned a bachelors degree in industrial management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949 and a masters in economics from Oxford University in 1955.