Singapore-MIT Alliance
Summer Conference 2002
The 2002 Summer Conference begins with a two–day Pre–Immersion session. See below for the Pre–Immersion agenda, and biographies of speakers for this event.
The Entrepreneurship Session (Pre-Immersion) was held at Wong Auditorium, Tang Center (E-51)
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Speaker
Dr. Resve Saleh Professor and the NSERC / PMC–Sierra Chair-holder in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of System–on–chip (SoC) Research Lab at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Abstract "Start–up 101: Lessons from inside the Tornado"
In 1995, during the frenzied days of an emerging internet–centric world, an elctronic design automation (EDA) company quietly began opertaions in Silicon Valley, which was at the eye of the internet storm. This talks about the founding of Simplex Solutions, a successful EDA startup that beat the odds and eventually outlasted most of the internet startups. The company went public in 2001 and was recently acquired by Cadence. Simplex designs software products that verify integrated circuit designs before they are manufactured to detect signal integrity problems that may lead to chip failures. In this presentation, the experiences that shaped the company and led to its many successes will be described. In addition, the engineering process that produced the highest quality software in the industry will be highlighted. The talk will conclude with the key lessons learned while living inside the tornado.
Biography Saleh has been in the Integrated Circuits (IC) field for 23 years. He is a recognized leader in CAD for ICs and has made significant contributions in the area of deep submicron simulation and design verification. He is currently a full Professor and the NSERC/PMC–Sierra Chairholder in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, BC. He is currently the director of the System–on–chip (SoC) Research lab at UBC where he is investigating advanced issues in SoC design, verification and test.
He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He received the prestigious Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1990 from the National Science Foundation in the US. He has published two books on mixed–mode simulation and over 50 journal and conference papers. Dr. Saleh is an active member of the IEEE and served as general chair (1995), conference chair (1994), and technical program chair (1993) for the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. From 1992–1995, he also held the position of chairman of the IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 30 – Analog Hardware Description Languages (AHDL). He is currently the Conference Chair of the International Symposium on Quality in Electronic Design 2002 and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on CAD (1999–2002).
In 1995, Saleh founded Simplex Solutions, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) which designs software to verify integrated circuit chips before manufacture and identifies critical electrical and physical problems that will impact the design functionality or performance. The company went public in May of 2001. Dr. Saleh served as CEO for 1 year and VP of Engineering for over 3 years at Simplex. Once the company reached profitability, he returned to academia. The company was recently acquired by Cadence in 2002.
Prior to starting Simplex, Dr. Saleh spent nine years as an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana. He also spent one year at Stanford University on a sabbatical leave. Before embarking on his academic career, Dr. Saleh has worked for Mitel Corporation in Ottawa, Canada, Toshiba Corporation in Japan, Tektronix in Beaverton, Oregon, and Nortel in Ottawa, Canada.
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