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Barry Katz, President and CTO
Barry Katz is President and CTO of Signal Integrity Software, Inc. (SiSoft). Barry founded SiSoft in 1995. Throughout his career, Barry has been actively involved with leading edge high-speed design. Barry has extensive experience in developing tools to integrate and automate a wide range of signal integrity analysis processes. As CTO, Barry has played a key role in leading tool development efforts for SiSoft's products. He has devoted much of his efforts at SiSoft to solving the problems faced by designers of leading edge high-speed systems. Barry has assembled a team of world-class experts committed to solving the most challenging high-speed design problems facing the industry today by delivering a comprehensive design methodology, software tools, and expert consulting. Barry has been a major influence to the signal integrity methodology utilized by numerous companies and has personally led multiple signal integrity design teams. He has expertise in all aspects of high-speed design including: timing analysis, interconnect analysis, crosstalk analysis, electro-magnetic modeling of interconnect, packages and connectors, IO buffer analysis and selection, decoupling analysis, simultaneously switching output analysis, interconnect topology, termination selection, clock distribution and skew analysis, and high-speed bus design. He currently serves as chairman of the IBIS Quality committee. Barry received an MSEE degree from Carnegie Mellon and a BSEE degree from the University of Florida.
Douglas J. Burns, Vice President/Chief Scientist Consulting Services
Doug Burns manages SiSoft's consulting services group. Doug has over 20 years experience leading teams in designing hardware, performing signal integrity analysis, and implementing ASICs for Honeywell, Digital, and Compaq Computer. Doug was a key contributor in developing the system architecture of Digital's
GHz ALPHA processor systems. Doug provided consulting expertise across many groups within Digital and Compaq, and has a successful track record of bringing products to market. Doug holds four patents in computer system design and has three patents pending. Doug's expertise spans a wide range of engineering disciplines including: system architecture, VLSI design, package design, chip and system timing analysis, interconnect analysis, crosstalk analysis, electro-magnetic modeling, I/O buffer analysis and selection, simultaneously switching output analysis, termination selection, clock distribution and skew analysis, and high-speed bus design. Doug graduated Magna cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts with a BSEE degree and received an MSEE degree from Northeastern University.
Walter M. Katz, Ph.D, Chief Scientist
Dr. Katz is a pioneer in the development of constraint driven printed circuit board routers. He developed SciCards, the first commercially successful auto-router. Dr. Katz founded Layout Concepts and sold routers through Cadence, Zuken, Daisix, Intergraph and Accel. More than 20,000 copies of his tools have been used worldwide. Dr. Katz developed the first signal integrity tools for a 17 MHz 32-bit minicomputer in the seventies. In 1991, IBM used his software to design a 1 GHz computer. Dr. Katz holds a Ph.D from the University of Rochester and a BS from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
Michael Steinberger, Ph.D., Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Dr. Steinberger has over 29 years experience in the design and analysis of very high speed electronic circuits. He started his career at Hughes Aircraft
designing microwave circuits. He then moved to Bell Labs, where he designed microwave systems that helped AT&T move from analog to digital long-distance
transmission. He was instrumental in the development of high speed digital backplanes used throughout Lucent's transmission product line.
Prior to joining SiSoft, Dr. Steinberger worked at Cray Inc., where he
designed very high density interconnects and increased the data rate and path
lengths to the state of the art. Dr. Steinberger
holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, and has been awarded 7 U.S. patents.
Todd Westerhoff, Vice President/Software Products
Todd Westerhoff, vice president of software products for SiSoft, has over 26 years experience in the modeling and analysis of electronic systems, including 10 years of signal integrity experience. Prior to joining SiSoft, Todd managed a high-speed design group that provided static timing, signal integrity and design rule consultation to various ASIC and system engineering groups within Cisco Systems, Inc. Todd joined Cisco through Hammerhead Networks, where he was a high-speed design specialist. Prior to Hammerhead, he was the SPECCTRAQuest Product Manager for Cadence Design Systems. Before joining Cadence, he was a signal integrity consultant to a number of Fortune 500 companies. Todd has also held product marketing positions at Compact Software, Racal-Redac, FutureNet and HHB-Systems. Todd holds a B.E. degree in electrical engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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