Don has 30 years of successful technical and managerial experience in the semiconductor industry. Don has developed numerous breakthroughs in circuit design spanning both consumer and industrial applications. Most recently, he led the analog design efforts at Nuelight, an innovator in OLED sensors. Prior to that, he was Director of Analog Design at Pixim, developing high dynamic range image sensors. As employee number 7 at Tripath Technology, Don was Vice President of Engineering responsible for power electronics and DSL line drivers. He participated in taking Tripath public. Don's background also includes 17 years at National Semiconductor, where he put many high volume mixed-signal and analog products into production including National's Mass Storage pre-amplifier business. Don holds numerous analog design patents including AM/FM radio circuits, disk drive read channels, gm/C filters, disk drive servo detectors, power management, current sense memory read out, and low noise oscillators. Don received his BSEE from Cornell University and his MSEE from University of California Berkeley. |