Chiphead Theater

Jeff Loyer is a Signal Integrity Lead with Intel Corporation and has led much of their efforts in finding solutions for PCB issues including the Fiberweave Effect, copper roughness, and measuring and controlling insertion loss. He has spoken on these topics at past DesignCon sessions.

Lee Hill is founding partner of SILENT, an independent design firm established in 1992 that specializes in EMC and RF design, troubleshooting, and training services to commercial and industrial manufacturers with global distribution in the computer, consumer, network and telecommunications, industrial process control, automotive, medical and scientific instruments, and military and aerospace industries. Previously, Hill was principal EMC and systems engineer at Digital Equipment Corp.'s Workstation Systems Engineering Group. He received his master of science degree in electrical engineering and electromagnetics with highest honors from the University of Missouri-Rolla and his BSEE from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a returning instructor with the IEEE EMC Society's annual Global University program and is the named inventor of three U.S. patents for EMI control in electronic systems. He provides expert witness services for patent litigation.

Steve is an independent consultant with over 20 years industry experience and a broad range of expertise. Steve holds numerous patents, has authored more than a dozen papers on power integrity, and contributes regularly to the SI-List signal integrity reflector.

Don DeGroot has more than 20 years' experience in high-frequency electrical measurements and engineering through his work in industry, government, and academia. Before launching CCN's measurement services in 2005, DeGroot directed measurement science projects at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (1993-2005); served as professor adjoint of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Colorado (1999-2005); and spent a visiting year (2002-03) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he developed a new statistical approach to network analyzer calibrations with members of ELEC. Concurrent with his CCN work, he lectures at Andrews University on instrumentation and RF. DeGroot has authored or co-authored more than 100 technical publications and presentations.

Helene Thibieroz is a staff technical marketing manager for circuit simulation products at Synopsys Inc.. Thibieroz previously was a staff application engineer at Cadence Design Systems for 10 years and a staff characterization engineer at Motorola for five years.

Scott Wedge is a Senior Staff R&D Engineer with Synopsys. He held prior technical and management positions with Tanner Research, Hewlett-Packard, EEsof, and Hughes Aircraft Company. After ten years as an analog/RF circuit designer, Scott transitioned to the EDA industry where he has since been creating better design techniques and software solutions for AMS, signal integrity, and high-speed integrated circuits.

Hany Elhak has over 10 years of EDA experience spanning both technical and marketing responsibilities. Prior to EDA, Hany worked as an RF designer, designing RF integrated circuits for cellular and wireless networking standards. He wrote six IEEE papers on RFIC design. Hany has a BSEE and an MSEE from Ain Shams University, Cairo and an MBA with honors from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

Harald von Sosen is a Principal Engineer working in circuit simulation at Synopsys, where has focused primarily on enhancing HSPICE technology for multithreaded transient simulation, RF simulation, and signal integrity analysis. Harald previously lead circuit simulation development at Tanner Research. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology.

Szekit Chan is a Staff Corporate Application Engineer at Synopsys supporting HSPICE. He has been with Synopsys for more than 4 years. In his previous work, he has worked on analog and digital circuits design for more than 8 years.
He received his Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University
and his Bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley.