A recent returnee to her homeland of Russia, Julia had moved to the US to receive a PhD from the University of Virginia, after studying applied math and physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. A signal integrity and electronic hardware system design engineer, Julia has recently held project leadership and management roles at nVidia, Altera, and Intel.

Julia has designed PCBs and backplanes for SI and electromagnetic compliance using various high-speed simulation tools, 3-D field solvers, TDR, VNA, and other lab techniques. She has served in various positions at Cyras, N.E.T., AST Research, and nVidia. Julia is a dual US-Russian citizen and speaks three languages.

Prior to 74ze, Linc served in various design and verification roles as an ASIC engineer. With experience from Cabletron Systems, AuraVision, BroadLogic, Believe, and Transmeta, he has most recently worked as a digital design engineer at Unicore Microsystems, a Chinese-funded Russian microprocessor company. Linc has also held positions in Russia at Lotus (now IBM) and Artel Business and Telecommunications.

An accomplished engineer with over twenty-five years of experience in a range of electrical engineering disciplines, Ludvik is an expert in the design of high-frequency analog/RF circuits and applying that knowledge to the design of high-speed digital PC boards.

Ludvik has served as a technical manager at numerous firms, analyzing signal integrity and performing circuit design. His work has led to project successes at Intel, Zultys Technologies, Rambus, Spirent, Aureal, California Eastern Laboratories, Harris, and other high tech firms. He is the founder of Bekera consulting and has previously founded and successfully sold an instrumentation firm in the Czech Republic. Ludvik is a dual citizen of the US and the Czech Republic and speaks four languages. He received an MSEE from San Jose State University and a BSEE from California State University.

Peter has over 30 years of experience in the high-tech electronics and software industries.

As a designer, he has worked in high-speed digital, analog, and analog-mixed signal integrated circuit design at IBM and TRW. At IBM, Peter established himself as a bipolar transistor modeling expert.

In the EDA (electronic design automation) field, Peter has served in various applications and management roles. As an engineer, he has worked on both front and back-end chip and system development, on products in the areas of digital signal processing, microprocessors, analog circuits, silicon compilation, DFT (design-for-test), and compaction methodologies. He has held various positions at IBM, Hughes, TRW, Teradyne, Analog Devices, Mentor Graphics, Silicon Compilers, and CheckLogic in the U.S. and Europe (Switzerland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Great Britain). Peter was most recently VP of Business Development for Sagantec and iRoC Technologies.

As a Professor and a Member of the Graduate Faculty of the EE Department at LSU, Peter lectured on analog circuit design and semiconductor physics while doing research in transport theory in semiconductors.

As a Consultant, he has conducted workshops in VLSI DFT and DSM (deep submicron methodologies). He is the author of various technical articles and the book “Hard IP, an Introduction to Increasing ROI for VLSI Chip Designs”.

Peter is a native of Switzerland and now lives in Silicon Valley. He has a B.S. degree from the Abendtechnikum Zurich in Telecommunications and an M.S. degree from the University of Vermont and a Ph.D. from the University of Florida, both in Electrical Engineering. Peter speaks French, German, Italian, and Russian.

With over fifteen years of experience in front-end design, back-end design, verification, sign-off, and project management, Vladimir has most recently served as a senior design engineer for Spike Technologies, performing design and verification tasks for the development of graphics and image capture chips.

As a senior design engineer at Intrinsix, SEVA, and Spike Technologies, Vladimir engaged in the development of content addressable memories, peripheral interconnect, memory controllers, and graphics controllers. With a strong focus on design for test, Vladimir has a background in leading testbench architecture and development and has significant experience in hardware emulator evaluation.

While a principal design engineer and project manger at NIITT, Vladimir led the development of various microcontrollers and Intel compatible microprocessors; contributing himself to the design and verification of ALUs, FPUs, and MMUs. Vladimir has most recently worked on DFT implementation for SanDisk.

Vladimir received an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Moscow Institute of Electronics Technology.

As the Director of Engineering for the Digital IC Design Group of Cadence Design Systems, in less than 4 years Mark built a group of 200 engineers performing contract IC design for companies throughout the world. Prior to Cadence, Mark spent 5 years in the Applied Research department of Motorola working on strategic semiconductor devices and "systems on chips" that paved the way for exciting new wireless, battery-powered communications devices. During this time Mark also taught graduate classes in VLSI engineering at Florida Atlantic University. Prior to Motorola, Mark spent 9 years at Computer Consoles researching and developing various digital signaling processing based sub-systems for tone detection/generation, voice band record/playback, speech detection, echo cancellation, and speech recognition as part of a novel digital switch architecture.

Mark currently serves as the VP of Hardware for Improv Systems, a Designer-Defined DSP™ company. He received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering, with a concentration in DSP and semiconductors, from Rochester Institute of Technology.