Gabe Moretti, Technical Editor, ASIC and EDA, EDN Magazine

Mr. Moretti developed CAE software for TRW Systems, Compucorp, Intel, and Philips/Signetics from 1968 to 1982. Over the next 18 years, he worked for EDA companies, from small start-ups to his own CAE service company, finishing with Intergraph/VeriBest for the last seven years. During his career, Mr. Moretti participated in the development of some lasting industry standards: the Pascal programming language, the VME bus, VHDL and Verilog hardware description languages, and the open model interface for digital simulation models.

Panelists

Ahmad Bahai, Chief Technologist and Fellow, National Semiconductor

Mr. Bahai is an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a consulting professor at Stanford University in addition to his role with NSC. He is one of the inventors of the multi-carrier CDMA (OFDM) concept and proposed the technology for high speed wireless data systems. In addition, he was the co-founder and chief technology officer of ALGOREX. Mr. Bahai's research interests include adaptive signal processing and communication theory. Prior to joining NSC, Mr. Bahai was with AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1993 to 1997, where he was technical manager of the Wireless Communication Group in Advanced Communications Technology Labs.

Brian Evans, General Manager, Broadband Silicon Technology Center, Broadband Communications Group, Texas Instruments

Mr. Evans has held his current role for more than two years and was previously the design manager for TI's mixed signal wireless products. Mr. Evans joined TI in 1993 after having been an analog/RF design engineer for eight years at Northrop Corporation and Monolithic Sensors in Chicago.

Liesbet Van der Perre, Professor, University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Director, Wireless, IMEC

Ms. Van der Perre is responsible for the research and development of wireless communication systems, including digital baseband solutions, RF front-ends, and MAC-layer and cross-layer optimization. Previously, she was a system architect in IMEC's OFDM ASICs development and the leader of the team that realized IMEC's low power turbo codec.

David Borland, Director of Engineering, Intel Communciations Group, Intel

Mr. Borland has been with Intel for 5 years where he is presently a Director of Engineering in the Cellular and Handheld Group with the responsibility for the development of Application and Cellular Processors. Previously at Intel, he co-led the Intel and Analog Devices Joint Development. He joined Intel after 14 years at AMD in development of Cordless Telephones, ISDN and Modems products.