Navraj Nandra joined Synopsys in February 2005 as Director of Product Marketing for the mixed-signal products that include SERDES, USB and DDR2. He has worked in the semiconductor industry since the mid 80's as an analog/mixed signal IC designer for Philips Semiconductors, austriamicrosystems, (San Jose & Austria) and EM-Marin (Switzerland). He has been responsible for the complete design of a number of analog front ends in application areas such as digital audio, RFID and automotive. He joined Synopsys from Barcelona Design where he was Director of Application Engineering. During his four years at Barcelona he was responsible for pre- and post-sales support for Barcelona's analog synthesis technology. Navraj holds a masters degree in Microelectronics, majoring in analog IC design, from Brunel University and a post-graduate diploma in Process Technology from Middlesex University. He has presented at numerous technical conferences on mixed-signal design, analog IP and analog synthesis/EDA.
Scott Knowlton joined Synopsys in1997 and is the Product Marketing Manager for Synopsys’ PCI, PCI-X and PCI Express IP product families. Before leading the PCI product families to the number one position in the market, Scott managed Synopsys’ AMBA IP product family and coreTools products.
Prior to Synopsys, Scott held design en¬gineering and project management positions in ASIC development for 9 years at Encore Com¬puter, Nebula (now Intrinsix), and Raytheon.
Scott earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and has worked in IP and EDA for over 17 years.
Upon joining Synopsys in 2004, Bob managed the R&D team in charge of developing Synopsys’ PCI Express digital IP solutions. Prior to this role, Bob was the CTO of Cascade Semiconductor Solutions, Inc., a startup he co-founded. Cascade was one of the earliest providers of IP for the PCI Express market and the company was also a co-developer, with Agilent, of the PTC (protocol test card) for PCI Express compliance testing.
At Synopsys, Bob has recently traded his management position to return to a more technically-focused role: improving and expanding Synopsys’ portfolio of PCI Express solutions.
Bob received a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Michigan Technological University and a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. Bob is active in PCI-SIG® events and is a member of the Protocol Working Group for PCI Express . Bob has contributed to numerous patents in networking and telecommunications.
Upon rejoining Intel in 1991, Brad Hosler was fortunate to begin work on the early definition of PCI, designing the Plug-and-Play configuration capabilities of PCI and then transitioning to the enabling first PCI products (focusing on the device side) and helping define and drive the PCI compliance program, which has become a BKM for compliance programs.
After PCI®, Brad worked on USB, again doing definitional work on the spec followed by industry enabling and setting up an industry sustained compliance program. This pattern was repeated again with USB 2.0, and Brad is currently doing it again with Wireless USB. Brad and his team have also done industry enabling and the compliance program for PCI Express® Gen I and are working on the same for Gen II.
Brad received a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Bucknell University and a Masters degree in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Brad is currently the chairman of the PCI-SIG®'s Serial Enabling Workgroup as well as WiMedia's Compliance and Interoperability Workgroup. Brad has twelve patents issued and is a frequent presenter at Intel Developer Forums.
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