Board of Advisors

Michael Barr is the president of engineering services firm Netrino, which he founded in 1999. He is an acknowledged expert on the embedded systems industry and has written software now running in millions of products worldwide, including everything from consumer electronics to physical therapy equipment. In addition, he has testified as an expert witness in several circuits of the federal U.S. District Court. Mr. Barr is past editor-in-chief of Embedded Systems Programming and former adjunct faculty in the Electrical Engineering department at the University of Maryland, College Park. His best-selling book about embedded software development—-Programming Embedded Systems in C and C ++ (O'Reilly, 1999)—-has been read by tens of thousands of engineers and been translated into several languages. He is also the author of more than forty articles on the subject of real-time embedded systems design and, with Jack Ganssle, of the Embedded Systems Dictionary (CMP Books, 2003). In addition, he is a sought after public speaker and private trainer. He earned MBA, MSEE, and BSEE degrees from the University of Maryland

Synthesis Expert/EDA Industry Analyst

Giovanni De Micheli is Professor of Electrical Engineering, and by courtesy, of Computer Science at Stanford University. Previously he held positions at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, at the Department of Electronics of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy and at Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne, Florida. He is author of Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Circuits, co-author and/or co-editor of five other books and of over 270 technical articles . He is, or has been, member of the technical advisory board of several companies, including Magma Design Automation, Coware, Aplus Design Technologies, Ambit Design Systems and STMicroelectronics. Dr. De Micheli is the recipient of the 2003 IEEE Emanuel Piore Award for contributions to computer-aided synthesis of digital systems. He is a Fellow of ACM and IEEE. He received the Golden Jubilee Medal for outstanding contributions to the IEEE CAS Society in 2000. He received the 1987 D. Pederson Award for the best paper on the IEEE Transactions on CAD/ICAS and two Best Paper Awards at the Design Automation Conference, in 1983 and in 1993. He is Past President of the IEEE CAS Society. He was Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on CAD/ICAS in 1987-2001. Dr. De Micheli was the Program Chair and General Chair of the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in 1996-1997 and 2000 respectively. He was the Program and General Chair of the International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) in 1988 and 1989 respectively. He was also co-director of the NATO Advanced Study Institutes on Hardware/Software Co-design, held in Tremezzo, Italy, 1995 and on Logic Synthesis and Silicon Compilation, held in L'Aquila, Italy, 1986. He is a founding member of the ALaRI institute at Universita' della Svizzera Italiana (USI), in Lugano, Switzerland, where he is currently scientific counselor. He holds a Nuclear Engineer degree from Politecnico di Milano, an M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley.

Business/Management

Jack Grimes is an engineering consultant with over twenty years experience at the senior levels of management in large and small high technology companies. Jack previously founded and served as CTO of ServiceHub, a company that combines web-based dispatch services with wireless data to SMS and browser capable mobile phones. Before that, Jack was the Senior VP of Technology, Architecture & Strategy at Visa International where he developed strategies for chip card technology, managed large-scale software projects, and evaluated investments in technology companies. As Technology Director at Taligent, a joint venture of IBM and Apple, Jack managed strategic technology acquisitions and major accounts. Jack is the author of 37 technical papers and is the past editor of several IEEE journals. Jack’s expertise includes very technical knowledge of hardware and software as well as business development knowledge and significant management experience. Jack holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, an MSEE, and a BSEE from Iowa State University and an MS in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oregon.

System Architecture/EDA Industry Analyst

Dan Hafeman is a senior ASIC verification expert with over 30 years of experience in electronics and systems design engineering. He has held a variety of development engineering and management positions throughout that time. Most recently he was CTO of Ikos Systems, a provider of accelerated verification tools, which was sold in May of 2002 to Mentor Graphics for $120 million. Dan was a founder of Ikos Systems in 1984 where he developed the company's first accelerator product. He went on to run engineering for ten years, architecting and managing the development of the industry's first successful VHDL co-simulator - Voyager CSX. He then spearheaded the company's movement into logic emulation by charting the acquisition and integration of Virtual Machine Works, an MIT startup in the Boston area that Ikos acquired in 1996. In 1998 Dan became CTO of Ikos Systems. As part of his CTO role at Ikos, Dan has extensively studied the System on Chip verification problem and has become an authority on the use of FPGAs for large system verification. Prior to Ikos, Dan worked for a variety of companies including Convergent Systems, Scientific Micro Systems, and Westinghouse Research Labs. He has a Masters degree in Computer Engineering from Stanford University.