As serial technologies continue to speed up, there are new challenges presented to the designers for verification and compliance tasks — complex measurement setups, signal integrity issues, and predictive effects of equalization on receiver performance, just to name a few. This panel will feature expert points of view on the challenges and potential solutions from the T&M and the designer community alike. Please be prepared for an extensive Q&A following.

Chris Loberg Senior Manager of Marketing Tektronix

In an earlier role with the company, Mr. Loburg was the responsible for marketing management of Optical Communications Test Products at Tektronix. Prior to his stint with Tektronix, he was vice president of marketing for Utah Scientific, a manufacturer of telecom switching equipment; and vice president of sales and marketing for Texscan, a manufacturer of cable television infrastructure equipment. He holds an M.B.A. in marketing from San Jose State University.

Joseph Diepenbrock Senior Technical Staff Member, Interconnect Qualification Engineering Department IBM

Mr. Diepenbrock is currently working on the electrical testing and modeling of connectors and cables. He has worked in a number of areas at IBM, including bipolar and CMOS IC design, analog and digital circuit design, backplane design and simulation, and network hardware and server product development. Mr. Diepenbrock received the Sc.B. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, respectively.

Eric Kvamme LSI, Inc.

Greg D. Le Cheminant Measurement Applications Specialist, Digital Signal Analysis Division Agilent Technologies

Mr. Le Cheminant is responsible for product management and development of new measurement applications for the division's digital communications analyzer and jitter test products. He represents Agilent on several industry standards committees. Mr. Le Cheminant's more than 20 years of experience at Agilent/Hewlett-Packard includes manufacturing engineering and various product marketing positions. He is a contributing author to four textbooks on high-speed digital communications. Mr. Le Cheminant holds one patent with two pending and holds B.S.E.E.T. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Brigham Young University.

Andy Martwick Electromagnetics Engineer Intel

Mr. Martwick is a circuit architect at Intel Corporation's chipset division. He recently authored sections of the 3GIO physical layer specification and co-chairs the PCI Express Jitter Working Group. Mr. Martwick has more than 20 years of product design experience in software, hardware, and embedded systems, as well as more than 20 patents issued or pending in computer architecture and communications.

Martin Miller Chief Scientist LeCroy Corp.

Dr. Miller has been a hands-on engineer and designer at LeCroy for 29 years. He has contributed analog, digital, and software designs, and during the last 16 years, he has focused on measurement-and-display software capabilities for LeCroy scopes. A native of Baltimore, he holds several U.S. patents and participates in task groups for JEDEC concerning jitter measurements. His doctorate is from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, in high-energy physics.

Tom Waschura CTO and Founder SyntheSys Research, Inc.

Mr. Waschura has more than 20 years of experience in the serial data test and measurement industry and is currently responsible for developing BERTScope technology and products for encompassing bit-error rate, eye diagramming, signal stress, equalization, and jitter analysis. He holds many granted and pending patents in areas of high-speed digital communications. Mr. Waschura is a graduate of Hiram College, MIT, and Stanford University.

Ransom Stephens Writer, Physicist, Public Speaker Ransom's Notes

Dr. Stephen's company, Ransom's Notes, produces and presents content at every level of technical sophistication to help engineers advance to technology's cutting edge. He is the author of more than 200 articles in the electronics industry, science journals, and magazines. Dr. Stephens has introduced new measurement techniques for electrical and optical systems, invented methods for extracting signals from noise, led an engineering commando team, and served on high data-rate standards committees.

Pavel Zivny Product Engineer Tektronix

Mr. Zivny works with the sampling oscilloscopes group of Tektronix. Over the years he has been involved in test, design, and marketing of both real-time and sampling oscilloscopes and has several oscilloscope-related patents awarded and pending. Currently Mr. Zivny focuses on high-speed serial data measurements with sampling oscilloscopes. He is a contributor to the IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet) and T11 standards bodies.