Future of Semiconductor Design Verification

This event will consist of a panel discussion on how recent economic fluctuations have and will continue to effect the semiconductor industry for Austin, verification engineers, and industry consolidation. 

Ty Garibay

• Ty Garibay is the Program Manager for ARM Processor development in Texas Instruments' Wireless Terminals Business Unit and site manager for TI's Austin office. Currently, he and his team are focused on the completion of the industry's first 45nm implementation of ARM's Cortex-A8 super-scalar processor core.
• Over the previous 20+ years, Ty has designed microprocessors at ARM, Alchemy Semiconductor, SGI/MIPS, Cyrix and Motorola, participating in all phases of design from circuits and layout through architecture and product definition.
• He holds over 30 patents in the areas of integrated circuit design, computer architecture and design methodology. 

Brian Wong

• Mr. Wong was President and CEO of D2Audio Corporation since 2005, a leading audio semiconductor and software company.  D2Audio was recently acquired by Intersil Corporation in August, 2008.  He is currently running the D2Audio-Intersil business as Director of D2Audio.
• Previously, Mr. Wong was CEO at Primarion Inc, a company focused on data communications and Power Management ICs, which was acquired by Infineon. 
• Prior to that, he was a senior manager at TRW and managed the Mixed Signal IC business, which included data converter, Clock/Data Recovery, PLL, optical datacom, and high speed digital ICs.
• Mr. Wong holds a BSEE from University of California, Los Angeles, a MSEE from University of Southern California, and has taken graduate management classes at UCLA Anderson School of Management. He has co-authored textbooks and papers on semiconductor technology and data converters. He is the Chairman of The Austin Technology Council, serves on the Advisory Board for the UC Davis ECE Department, and on the board of Integral Wave Technologies, a power management company.

Jim Reinhart

• Jim Reinhart is President and CEO of Luminary Micro and one of the company’s three cofounders. Jim has more than 25 years of experience in the creation and commercialization of computing technologies. A sixth-generation Texan with degrees from Rice and St. Edwards Universities, Jim will give a talk on the changes that are driving a massive shift in the semiconductor industry.

DVClub membership is free and is open to all non-service provider semiconductor professionals. Most members work in verification, but there are also plenty of entrepreneurs, professors, students, managers, investors, and even design engineers who attend. Participation by service providers (solicitors) is limited to event sponsors, who supply the funds for DVClub events.

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