NeoSilicon Announces the Addition of Dr. Behzad Razavi to its Engineering Team.Business Editors SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 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 home networking space, today announced the addition of Dr. Behzad Razavi to its engineering team as Chief Radio Architect. Dr. Razavi, Associate Professor 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 , is a pioneer in 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. technology and has authored a number of text books on the subject. Radio Frequency (RF) technology on pure CMOS process enables aggressive integration of baseband and DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive functions into a single Integrated Circuit (IC). Razavi brings to NeoSilicon tremendous knowledge and years of experience in design of RF CMOS Circuitry. Razavi had previously served on NeoSilicon's Technical Advisory Board and used his world-class technical research experience to assist NeoSilicon executives with product plans and technology strategy. "All of us at NeoSilicon, especially our engineers, are excited to be working with Dr. Razavi," 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 presence and knowledge, along with the talents of our existing staff, will help bring our product to market more quickly, thus realizing our vision of low cost, high performance wireless LAN solutions." "After researching and writing about opportunities in the wireless space for years, I am thrilled to finally be working hands-on with a company ready to make great strides in this emerging area. The wireless LAN market is still in its infancy, and I look forward to helping NeoSilicon bring to market a product that addresses the market needs,," said Razavi. "NeoSilicon's vision and future products are completely in line with the technology I've researched. I hope to bring this knowledge and use it to help shape the vision and future of NeoSilicon." 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 (now Lucent) and subsequently Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (now Agilent Technologies) 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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