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General Verification

Scott Runner - Sr. Director of Engineering, Qualcomm

Verification of Wireless SoCs: No Longer in the Dark Ages - pdf  

Scott Runner is currently the Senior Director of Design Verification (DV) for Qualcomm Inc. in San Diego where he helped found Qualcomm's verification organization.

He has worked in engineering in the semiconductor and EDA industries for 24 years, holding positions as design Director at Conexant Systems Inc., founding member of DesignWare at Synopsys, and was a DSP and ASIC design engineer and manager of at Fujitsu Microelectronics. He has taped out over 44 chips and has authored over 22 papers & articles. He holds degrees in Physics and Computer Science from Georgia Tech (go Jackets :-)).
 

Geoff Shippee - VP of Engineering, Qualcomm

Geoffrey Shippee currently holds the title of VP, Engineering at Qualcomm Inc. He is currently responsible for Qualcomm's WLAN product development group, formally Airgo. The WLAN product group was recently acquired by Qualcomm. Geoffrey has recently relocated from San Diego to the Bay Area to assume the WLAN position.

Prior to relocating to the Bay Area, Geoffrey's responsibilities at Qualcomm included all MSM7k chip development, wired connectivity hw development activities, Qualcomm's DFT methodology and several advanced R&D product development activities. In this role, he was instrumental in re-defining several key hw development methodologies used by Qualcomm for it's chip development. Prior to this, Geoffrey spearheaded the foundation Qualcomm's GSM modem development effort. As a follow on to this, he ultimately took on responsibility for all Qualcomm's UMTS HW development.

Geoffrey's experiences at Qualcomm have exposed him to a wide range of product development including: Infrastructure (Wired networking side as well as the wireless side), Globalstar (a satellite based communication system), Bluetooth, GSM, UMTS, 1x, and now most recently WLAN. In addition to these compelling wireless communication systems, he has also had to work on solving complex integration problem related to low power multi-media technologies.

Geoffrey started his career with Qualcomm Inc in 1994, having graduated from Cal Poly, SLO with an MSEE.