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Speakers
Hear from Industry Thought Leaders
LOGIC NVM 2008 will feature thought leaders representing diverse companies, including: fabless semiconductor companies, integrated device manufacturers, semiconductor foundries, and semiconductor analyst firms.
The current roster of speakers is below. Check back frequently for an updated list of speakers.
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Dr. Yoon C. Lee (Logic NVM 2008 Keynote Speaker)
Managing Director of Product Innovation Team (PIT),
Samsung Electronics' Global Marketing Operation
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Dr. Yoon C. Lee is currently the managing director of Product Innovation Team (PIT) at Samsung Electronics' Global Marketing Operation. PIT is Samsung's global capability hub for leading product and solution ideation for strategic market driven products across all Samsung Electronics product lines including Samsung's component business. PIT utilizes open innovation model and collaborates with outside open innovation sources to bring market leading product concepts to Samsung Electronics based on market and consumer driven research. PIT is located in Silicon Valley, California.
Yoon has 17+ years of hands on, consulting and management experience in most all facets of new product development vertical from development strategy and ideation to product development process, operations and data management.
Prior to joining Samsung, Yoon was a product development consultant at PRTM and at Accenture, both based out of San Francisco bay area. Yoon began his career in product development as an automotive application robot design engineer at FANUC Robotics in Michigan, a leading industrial robot manufacturer. Yoon has over 15 professional publications in professional engineering and product development journals and was recently an invited guest speaker at PDMA, KINCON and AAMA conferences. Yoon earned his PhD in Manufacturing from the University of California at Berkeley. Yoon currently resides in Oakland, California.
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Alan Niebel (Logic NVM 2008 Panel Moderator)
Founder and CEO
Web-Feet Research |
Alan Niebel is the founder and chief executive officer for Web-Feet Research, a non-volatile memory and storage semiconductor market research company located in Monterey, CA. Under his guidance Web-Feet Research was founded to qualify and quantify the Flash and Non-Volatile memory and storage markets along with the small form factor HDD markets. In early 2000, the Flash Memory Reporting Association (FMRA) was established to report the quarterly Flash shipments from the top seventeen Flash manufacturers by all capacities and segmented by NOR and NAND architectures. He has worked in non-volatile semiconductor market research for twelve years and has considerable experience both as a consultant and as an analyst. Prior to founding Web-Feet Research, Alan Niebel was the Director of Non-Volatile Memory at Semico Research and at In-Stat in Scottsdale, Arizona. At the IEEE Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory Workshops, Alan Niebel has been the keynote speaker for many sessions, and has also conducted panel discussions on Flash Memory Testing and Packaging as well as multi-bit 3-bit/4-bit/cell memories. Alan has also written articles and has been quoted in The Economist, Forbes, Business Week, Investors Business News, the Wall Street Journal, Electronic Business Today, and other publications. His work has been referenced and used by Intel, Spansion, Samsung, Toshiba, SanDisk, STMicroelectronics, Micron, Atmel, Sharp, IBM, Macronix, SST and many other semiconductor manufacturing companies.
Alan Niebel received his B.A. degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara and his MBA in International Business from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He also holds a private pilot's license.
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Pearl Cheng (Logic NVM 2008 Presenter)
Vice President of Engineering and Operations,
Kilopass |
| Pearl Cheng has more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, where she assumed a variety of engineering development and management roles. Prior to joining Kilopass, Pearl was involved in the design and development of non-volatile memories including EEPROM, EPROM, FLASH and Serial FLASH. She has held various key engineering and management positions at Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Micro Linear, Micron and Silicon Storage Technology. Pearl holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Todd Humes (Logic NVM 2008 Panelist)
Vice President Engineering IP Products,
Impinj, Inc.
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| Mr. Humes brings 18 years of engineering and management experience to Impinj, most recently as Product Line Manager for frequency synthesizers and Manager of the Synthesizer and Demodulator Department, both at TRW, Inc. He has managed numerous leading-edge technology developments, including a 12.8 Gbps optical demodulator and bit synchronizer and a 5.5 GHz phase-locked loop (jointly with Dr. Diorio). Mr. Humes earned his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 1989, and is a TRW Chairman's Award winner for innovation.
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Wlodek Kurjanowicz (Logic NVM 2008 Panelist)
CTO, Sidense
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| With over 25 years of IC design and manufacturing experience, Wlodek has lead numerous design, design automation and design analysis groups. In 2003 he founded Sidense Corp. with a vision to build a reliable NVM solution for sub-100nm CMOS technologies. In 1998 he co-founded ATMOS Corp., the embedded memory IP company, which he lead as its Chief Technology Officer to become the world leading provider of embedded DRAM compilers. Wlodek became a Mosys Fellow following the ATMOS acquisition by Mosys Inc (Nasdaq: MOSY) in 2002. Prior to that, he managed a Design Analysis Group and held Senior Technical Advisor positions at Chipworks Inc., and a Member of Technical Staff position at Semiconductor Insights Inc., both in Canada. He also held various IC Design Manager and IC Technology Manager positions in semiconductor plants in Poland. He holds six patents granted in addition to several pending applications in the memory IP space, with new applications in the works.
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Michael S. McCorquodale, Ph.D. (Logic NVM 2008 Presenter)
CTO, Mobius Microsystems
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| Dr. McCorquodale is the CTO of Mobius Microsystems, which was founded based on his dissertation research in precision solid-state oscillators for quartz replacement. In 2006, the Fabless Semiconductor Association recognized Mobius as 1 of 3 nominees for the Start-up to Watch Award. Dr. McCorquodale received the B.S.E. degree with honors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997. In 1998 he began graduate work at the University of Michigan where he completed the M.S.E and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 2000 and 2004 respectively. While at Michigan, he was the sole national recipient of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Doctoral Fellowship in 2002. Dr. McCorquodale has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles and holds inventorship on over 25 issued and pending U.S. patents. He has also recently served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Michigan where he taught a graduate course in Electrical Engineering. |
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Charles Ng (Logic NVM 2008 Panelist)
Vice President of Worldwide
Sales and Marketing
Kilopass |
| Mr. Ng has more than 24 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Kilopass, Mr. Ng held senior management and executive-level positions with Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Compass Design Automation, and VLSI Technology Inc. Mr. Ng was the key contributor in establishing and expanding the business for these companies in North America, Japan, and Asia Pacific. He graduated from California Institute of Technology with a Master degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, and he also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from University of California at Berkeley.
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Gregory A. Quirk (Logic NVM 2008 Presenter)
Product Manager, TechOnline TechInsights
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Gregory Quirk is the product manager of eeProductCenter, Under the Hood, Multimedia and Semiconductor Insights/Portelligent Liaison for TechOnline, a TechInsights Division. In this role, Mr. Quirk is responsible for the marketing and strategy to provide a future for these products.
Gregory Quirk was the Technical Marketing Manager for Semiconductor Insights (SI) from 2004 to 2008, responsible for the promotion of the portfolio of competitive intelligence services and reports. Previous to SI, Mr. Quirk served in both an applications engineering and product marketing capacity for Zarlink Semiconductor.
Mr. Quirk received a Bachelor of Science in Electronic System Engineering from the University of Regina and is currently working towards his MBA at the University of Ottawa. Mr. Quirk is a regular contributor to EE Times and TechOnline’s Under the Hood, and has presented on technology and teardowns at a number of conferences. He is also one of the hosts of Teardown TV, a video program for engineers showing a product teardown and focus on the components that enable the functionality.
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Joel Rosenberg (Logic NVM 2008 Panelist)
Senior Marketing Director, Non-Volatile Memory & Military Business
Virage Logic |
Joel Rosenberg serves as Senior Marketing Director for Virage Logic’s Non-Volatile Memory and Military business. As a 27-year industry veteran in the semiconductor business, Mr. Rosenberg has held senior engineering, marketing, business development and product line management positions at Fairchild, MMI, Signetics, WSI, Concurrent Logic, Atmel, and Virage Logic. Mr. Rosenberg has published several papers in the areas of Cache Logic FPGAs and Design Security. His experience includes Semiconductor Memory, Programmable Logic, System-on-Chip (SoC), ASIC and Intellectual Property. Joel holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara, an MBA from the University of Santa Clara and a California Real Estate License.
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Rick Shen (Logic NVM 2008 Panelist)
Vice President of Operation and Technology Development
eMemory |
Rick Shen has served as Vice President of Operation and Technology Development since March of 2008. He is responsible for eMemory technology development, customer service and sales/marketing organization and directing the company’s focus toward embedded NVM leadership. From January 2005 to March 2008, Dr. Shen served as Director of Technology & IP Service Division and led embedded NVM collaborative development tasks from 0.7um to 90nm generations. Dr. Shen was awarded 20 US patents with 20 more pending, and his works were featured in more than 30 technical publications. Rick Shen holds a doctoral degree in electrical engineering from National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan.
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Bin Wang, Ph.D. (Logic NVM 2008 Presenter)
Technology Transfer Manager
Impinj, Inc.
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| Bin is a technology transfer manager at Impinj and is responsible for transferring Impinj logic NVM technology to multiple foundries and across many advanced technologies. Bin worked on ultra-thin gate oxide reliability for his dissertation at National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) and received his Ph.D. in microelectronics reliability engineering at University of Maryland in 2001. He has taken on various roles with increasing responsibility to advance Impinj's technology. He serves on technical committees for the International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW) and International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS). Bin is a reviewer of IEEE Electron Device Letters and Transaction on Electron Devices publications.
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Xerxes F. Wania (Logic NVM 2008 Panelist)
President and Chief Executive Officer
Sidense Corp. |
Xerxes is the President and CEO of Sidense Corp., a company that provides intellectual property targeted to non-volatile memory in Logic CMOS processes. Xerxes has over 15 years of experience in marketing, sales and engineering in the semiconductor intellectual property industry. Prior to Sidense, he was the Director of Mixed-Signal Marketing at Synopsys (NASDAQ: SNPS) where he was responsible in marketing and business development activities for Synopsys’ mixed-signal semiconductor IP products. Prior to Synopsys, Xerxes was the President of inSilicon Canada and Vice President of Mixed-Signal Business for inSilicon (NASDAQ: INSN) worldwide. InSilicon was a semiconductor IP market leader before being acquired by Synopsys in 2002. Xerxes successfully grew inSilicon Canada into a profitable business and in 2001 was listed among the Top 50 Canada’s Hottest Startups. Xerxes was also previously the founder and CEO of Xentec Inc, a successful Intellectual Property company in Ontario, Canada. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1989 and has a degree in MASc, Electrical Engineering. He has served on the Board of Advisors of SiWorks Inc. (acquired by Cygnus Communications in 2005), and Videolocus (acquired by LSI Logic in 2002). In 2004, he was awarded the Entrepreneur of the year, by the World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce and has been featured in the Who’s Who of Technology Executives 2000/2001.
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Jack Harding (Logic NVM 2007 Keynote Speaker)
Chairman, President and CEO
eSilicon Corporation |
Jack Harding brings more than 20 years of executive management experience in the electronics industry to eSilicon. Prior to co-founding eSilicon, he served as president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems; during his tenure, Cadence was the world’s largest supplier of electronics design software. Previously, Harding was president and CEO of Cooper & Chyan Technology, which was acquired by Cadence in 1997. Harding also served as Executive Vice President of Zycad Corporation. He began his career with distinction at IBM.
Harding earned his bachelor’s degree in Economics and Chemistry from Drew University and has served as Vice Chairman of its Board of Trustees. He is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Development Strategies and a member of the Board of Visitors for the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Harding is a member and former Steering Committee member of the Council on Competitiveness, a Washington, D.C. based organization dedicated to the global competitiveness of the U.S.; and a former National Academies' Committee member for Software, Growth and the Future of the U.S. Economy. He is a frequent lecturer on innovation and entrepreneurship, and has served on many boards of public and private companies. His most recent appointment was to the 2007 board of directors for the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA). |
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Jordan Selburn (Logic NVM 2007 Panel Moderator)
Principal Analyst, Semiconductor Design
iSuppli Corporation
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Jordan came to iSuppli with decades of extensive experience in ASIC, Programmable Logic and semiconductor intellectual property (IP) analysis, product marketing, and engineering development.
Prior to joining iSuppli, Jordan served as the Director of Product Marketing for Amphion Semiconductor, where he was tasked with management of the technical product marketing team. He launched products in all of Amphion's product families in addition to providing in-depth sales support for the products and the IP business model. Prior to his tenure with Amphion, Jordan was the Principal Analyst for ASIC and IP at Gartner Group/Dataquest and as such was responsible for the evaluation and analysis of semiconductor IP as well as the ASIC and programmable logic markets. He formulated and presented tracking and forecasting on technology and market trends with particular emphasis on system-level integration as part of his duties at Gartner Group/Dataquest.
Marketing Manager and Product Line Manager positions at LSI Logic preceded his employment at Gartner Group/Dataquest. At LSI Logic, Jordan was charged with establishing product positioning and pricing for their production ASIC products. In addition, he generated technical requirements and provided marketing direction to product development teams along with creating business plans for 0.6 micron and 0.35 micron technologies. Before LSI Logic, Jordan was an ASIC Technology Manager and a Corporate Applications Engineer at Valid Logic Systems/Cadence Design Systems and was also associated with Agilent/EEsof, Inc. and Harris Corporation in various engineering capacities.
Jordan holds a Masters of Science in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University in addition to an MBA with distinction from Santa Clara University and a BSEE with honors from the University of Michigan.
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Larry Morrell (Logic NVM 2007 Panelist)
Vice President IP Products
Impinj, Inc. |
| Mr. Morrell has over 20 years of semiconductor-industry experience in engineering, management, and marketing roles. He directed marketing at Cypress for their programmable clocks division and market-leading USB chips. Prior to that he was the Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Data I/O where he helped popularize FPGAs and co-founded an industry trade show. Earlier in his career he established a European sales and marketing operation in Paris for an IC startup called Seattle Silicon and worked in engineering and management at Boeing. Mr. Morrell earned a B.S. in Computer and Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Russian Languages from New Mexico State University. |
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Charles Ching-Hsiang Hsu (Logic NVM 2007 Panelist)
President
eMemory Technology Inc.
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Charles Ching-Hsiang Hsu is the President of eMemory Technology Inc.,
which is a leading embedded NVM technology and IP provider. The innovation
made by Dr. Hsu on non-volatile memory has received various patents from US
and Japan.
Dr. Hsu received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the National Tsing-Hua
University (NTHU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C., a M.S. and a Ph.D. in electrical
engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1981, 1985 and
1987 respectively.
Prior to joining the company, he served as researcher at IBM T.J. Watson
Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. from1987 until 1992. He also joined the
Department of Electrical Engineering, NTHU in 1992, and then became a
Professor in 1996. He was the director of Tzu-Chiang Institute, Incubation Center,
and Chairman of Institute of Electronics Engineering, Tsing-Hua University from
1998 to 2000.
Dr. Hsu received the Young Active Scientist Award from the Conference of
Solid State Devices and Materials, Japan, in 1992. In 1995, he earned an
Excellent Youth Award from the Electronics Materials and Devices Association,
Taiwan. In 1996, he received the award of Excellent Contribution in Industry
Cooperation from the Ministry of Education and earned the Excellent Research
Awards from the National Science Council in 1996 and 1998. In 2005, he
received the National Invention and Creation Gold Medal Award from the Ministry
of Economic Affairs. He published over 200 patents and 120 papers in
Semiconductor device area.
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Todd Humes (Logic NVM 2007 Panelist)
Vice President Engineering IP Products,
Impinj, Inc.
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| Mr. Humes brings 18 years of engineering and management experience to Impinj, most recently as Product Line Manager for frequency synthesizers and Manager of the Synthesizer and Demodulator Department, both at TRW, Inc. He has managed numerous leading-edge technology developments, including a 12.8 Gbps optical demodulator and bit synchronizer and a 5.5 GHz phase-locked loop (jointly with Dr. Diorio). Mr. Humes earned his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 1989, and is a TRW Chairman's Award winner for innovation.
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Wlodek Kurjanowicz (Logic NVM 2007 Panelist)
CTO, Sidense
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| With over 25 years of IC design and manufacturing experience, Wlodek has lead numerous design, design automation and design analysis groups. In 2003 he founded Sidense Corp. with a vision to build a reliable NVM solution for sub-100nm CMOS technologies. In 1998 he co-founded ATMOS Corp., the embedded memory IP company, which he lead as its Chief Technology Officer to become the world leading provider of embedded DRAM compilers. Wlodek became a Mosys Fellow following the ATMOS acquisition by Mosys Inc (Nasdaq: MOSY) in 2002. Prior to that, he managed a Design Analysis Group and held Senior Technical Advisor positions at Chipworks Inc., and a Member of Technical Staff position at Semiconductor Insights Inc., both in Canada. He also held various IC Design Manager and IC Technology Manager positions in semiconductor plants in Poland. He holds six patents granted in addition to several pending applications in the memory IP space, with new applications in the works.
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Herman Lee (Logic NVM 2007 Panelist)
Business Development Manager
eMemory Technology
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| Dr. Herman H. M. Lee started his semiconductor industry experience in nonvolatile memory and ultra-thin oxide fields. Along with EPROM, EEPROM and Flash research, he had advanced investigation with TSMC in ultra-thin oxide (<2nm) characterization and reliability model establishment. In 2003 he joined eMemory Technology's technology development team, where he co-invented and developed NeoFlash the SONOS based embedded Flash memory. Now he takes charge of technology promotion and business development for eMemory in the US region. Dr. Lee holds B.S. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Tsing-Hua Unversity, Hsinchu, Taiwan in 1997 and 2002, respectively.
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Harry Luan, Ph.D. (Logic NVM 2007 Panelist)
Director of Technology
Kilopass
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| Dr. Harry Luan has more than 16 years of experience in the semiconductor industry in engineering research and development, as well as leadership roles. Prior to joining Kilopass, Dr. Luan was involved in research and development for non-volatile memory technologies included FLASH, R-RAM, SONOS EEPROM, and EPROM. He has had key engineering and management positions at AMD, Hynix, Cypress, and Windbond. Dr. Luan holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.
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Charles Ng (Logic NVM 2007 Panelist)
Vice President of Worldwide
Sales and Marketing
Kilopass |
| Mr. Ng has more than 24 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Kilopass, Mr. Ng held senior management and executive-level positions with Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Compass Design Automation, and VLSI Technology Inc. Mr. Ng was the key contributor in establishing and expanding the business for these companies in North America, Japan, and Asia Pacific. He graduated from California Institute of Technology with a Master degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, and he also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from University of California at Berkeley.
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Walter Ng (Logic NVM 2007 Panelist)
Senior Director,
Platform Alliances
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing |
| Walter Ng is responsible for developing and executing customer and partner alliances that advance the adoption of Chartered's solutions for leading-edge and mainstream technology nodes. He has led the company's collaboration with IBM and Samsung to define the strategy and implementation of solutions for the common design enablement platform at 90nm, 65nm and 45nm. Previously, he was senior director of design solutions responsible for Chartered's relationship with third-party EDA and IP partners. Mr. Ng has over 15 years of experience in the electronic design industry. Prior to joining Chartered, Mr. Ng was director of business development and Asia Pacific operations with Sequence Design, responsible for growing Sequence Design's Asia Pacific sales channel and marketing activities as well as managing the strategic relations program for foundries, EDA, and IP partners. Mr. Ng has also held various positions in strategic marketing, sales support, consulting services, applications engineering, and design at Cadence Design Systems and Raytheon's Equipment Development Labs. Mr. Ng holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
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David Sowards (Logic NVM 2007 Panelist)
Vice President of
Non-Volatile Memory Products
Virage Logic |
| David Sowards serves as Virage Logic's Vice President of Non-Volatile Memory Products. Prior to joining Virage Logic in July 2005, Sowards served as Vice President of Engineering for fables Smart Card IC maker, Emosyn International, an SST company. Sowards joined Emosyn in 1998, where established the design organization and developed products that grew to over 200 million units being shipped by mid-2005.
Prior or Emosyn, Sowards served as Director of Engineering at Information Storage Devices (ISD), a maker of devices for the audio market that used analog level storage on conventional floating gate non-volatile technology. Prior to ISD, Sowards held various engineering and management positions at Exar, Catalyst Semiconductor, Wafer Scale Integration, Xicor, and Sperry Univac.
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Lisa Tafoya (Logic NVM 2007 Panelist)
Vice President
Global Research, FSA
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| Lisa Tafoya is the vice president of global research for FSA. Tafoya is responsible for FSA's market intelligence, surveys and publications, and serves as executive editor of FSA Forum, the premier industry journal exclusively targeting fabless, IDM and outsourcing markets. She also manages all FSA subcommittees which address industry challenges with solutions-based deliverables such as standards, quality checklists and guidelines. Tafoya has spent 15 years in market research, consulting, project management and marketing communications. She earned a bachelor's degree in marketing from Southern Methodist University.
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Mike Walach (Logic NVM 2007 Panelist)
Sales and Marketing Manager
Chingis Technology
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| Mike Walach has over 25 years of experience in microcontrollers, ASICs and ASSPs. Prior to Chingis Technology, Mike has worked with Teradyne, Hitachi and Texas Instruments in areas of product definition and application engineering. He has a BS in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Brown University and an MBA from Northeastern University.
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Bin Wang, Ph.D. (Logic NVM 2007 Panelist)
Technology Transfer Manager
Impinj, Inc.
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| Bin is a technology transfer manager at Impinj and is responsible for transferring Impinj logic NVM technology to multiple foundries and across many advanced technologies. Bin worked on ultra-thin gate oxide reliability for his dissertation at National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) and received his Ph.D. in microelectronics reliability engineering at University of Maryland in 2001. He has taken on various roles with increasing responsibility to advance Impinj's technology. He serves on technical committees for the International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW) and International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS). Bin is a reviewer of IEEE Electron Device Letters and Transaction on Electron Devices publications.
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Xerxes F. Wania (Logic NVM 2007 Panelist)
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Sidense Corporation
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| Xerxes is the President and C.E.O. of Sidense Corp., a company that provides intellectual property targeted to non-volatile memory in Logic CMOS processes. Xerxes has over 15 years of experience in marketing, sales and engineering in the semiconductor intellectual property industry. Prior to Sidense, he was the Director of Mixed-Signal Marketing at Synopsys (NASDAQ: SNPS) where he was responsible in marketing and business development activities for Synopsys’ mixed-signal semiconductor IP products. Prior to Synopsys, Xerxes was the President of inSilicon Canada and Vice President of Mixed-Signal Business for inSilicon (NASDAQ: INSN) worldwide. InSilicon was a semiconductor IP market leader before being acquired by Synopsys in 2002. Xerxes successfully grew inSilicon Canada into a profitable business and in 2001 was listed among the Top 50 Canada’s Hottest Startups. Xerxes was also previously the founder and CEO of Xentec Inc, a successful Intellectual Property company in Ontario, Canada. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1989 and has a degree in MASc, Electrical Engineering. He has served on the Board of Advisors of SiWorks Inc. (acquired by Cygnus Communications in 2005), and Videolocus (acquired by LSI Logic in 2002). In 2004, he was awarded the Entrepreneur of the year, by the World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce and has been featured in the Who’s Who of Technology Executives 2000/2001.
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