NeoSilicon Announces Addition of WorldWide Wireless Technology Expert to Its Technical Advisory Board.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2000 NeoSilicon, an emerging fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. in the wireless personal connectivity and home networking space, today announced the formation of its technical advisory team. The board was designed to gather world class specialists in the area of RF CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. and wireless LAN applications, and to advise NeoSilicon regarding its technology development and product development plans. The first technical advisor to join is Dr. Behzad Razavi, an associate professor of electrical engineering at University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. since 1996. His current research focuses on the area of RF CMOS development. He has authored several books on the subject and is looked to as an expert on many facets of RF CMOS technology development. "What attracts me to NeoSilicon is its immense potential in the wireless community," said Razavi. "The vision of NeoSilicon is very close to the research I am doing on wireless and CMOS technology at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX . Wireless technology has not been widely adopted over the years due to high costs, but NeoSilicon is addressing that very issue and creating a product that will cut pricing for a variety of applications and devices in the market." Razavi will utilize his world class technical research experience to play a key role on the technical advisory team by understanding in detail NeoSilicon's product plans and how they will revolutionize the market. Dr. Razavi will work with NeoSilicon's senior management team and board of directors discussing strategy, and company issues and updates. He will also interact with the executives to keep apprised of the company's progress in terms of product development and market saturation. "Behzad Razavi is one of the leading experts on RF CMOS technology," said Morteza Saidi, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of NeoSilicon. "His involvement in our vision, product development and entry into the market further solidifies our mission to become a leader in the emerging wireless personal connectivity and home networking space. We look forward to working closely with him on many aspects of our product development." Razavi received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology Sharif University of Technology (Persian: دانشگاه صنعتی شریف Dāneshgāh-e San'ati-ye Sharif), formerly named Aryamehr University of Technology in 1985 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1988 and 1992, respectively. Professor Razavi served as an Adjunct Professor at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, from 1992 to 1994, and at Stanford University in 1995. He was with AT&T Bell Laboratories and subsequently Hewlett-Packard Laboratories until 1996. Razavi is a member of the Technical Program Committees of Symposium on VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. Circuits and the International Solid-State Circuits Conference International Solid-State Circuits Conference is a global forum for presentation of advances in solid-state circuits and Systems-on-a-Chip. The Conference offers a unique opportunity for engineers working at the cutting edge of IC design to maintain technical currency, and to (ISSCC ISSCC International Solid State Circuits Conference ISSCC International Student Services Center Corporation Limited ), in which he is the chair of the Analog Subcommittee. He is the author of several books including Principles of Data Conversion System Design (IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. Press, 1995), RF Microelectronics (Prentice Hall, 1998), and Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits (McGraw-Hill, 2000), and the editor of Monolithic Phase-Locked Loops and Clock Recovery Circuits (IEEE Press, 1996). About NeoSilicon NeoSilicon was founded in January 2000. NeoSilicon is a fabless semiconductor company focused on the emerging wireless networking markets. NeoSilicon has selected and is developing its Radio Frequency (RF) technology on pure CMOS process, enabling aggressive integration of baseband and DSP functions into a single Integrated Circuit (IC). The company will provide value to its customer base through reduced component count and ease of manufacturability. Based in San Jose, NeoSilicon has a solid executive team with experience in wireless communications technologies as well as a strong management team. For more information, please visit the NeoSilicon website at www.neo-silicon.com. |
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