Bruce Larson

Fabless semiconductor company specializing in the ground-up development of full-custom analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits with an emphasis on high-performance analog and power management products. Offering turn-key product and circuit block level IP design services.

• Provide technical leadership and oversight to all aspects of research and development. • Lead the team to design, build, and test next-generation induction ballast circuits. • Lead the team to develop and build optimized gas discharge lamps. • Commercialize complete lighting product designs and transition new products to high-volume manufacturing. • Ensure all products meet government regulatory requirements including UL, FCC, and Energy Star. • Responsible for budget, documentation, change control, and stage gate processes. • Executive team member, reporting to the CEO.

Leading integrated circuit development and engineering activities https://www.sinewatts.com/

Responsible for the following functions of the Linear and Power Solutions Group: • Integrated Circuit Design • Mask Design (IC Layout) • Test Development • Product Engineering • Package Development Key member of executive team, leading research and development organization of approximately 100 personnel in California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Scotland, England, Hong Kong, and China. Work directly with the Marketing organization to define all new products. Advise the Technology Research and Development group to create process technologies to fulfill our product roadmap. Daily involvement in new product development, from the definition of market requirements and system architectures through transistor-level circuit design guidance and review. Instituted improved processes for product definition, development, and quality assurance. Introduced more than 100 new commercial products, including linear and switching voltage regulators, power management IC’s, MOSFET drivers, supervisors, USB and load switches, high brightness and flash LED drivers, low noise radio frequency amplifiers, and hot-swap controllers.

Responsible for Research and Development team of 50+ staff worldwide, including Design Engineering, IC Layout, and internal Applications Engineering in China, Vietnam, and USA. Member of executive team, reporting to the CEO. General Manager for Hanoi R&D Center. Re-focused R&D organization on market-driven product development, with emphasis on quality and manufacturability. Developed a culture of excellence in design, mentoring engineering staff on technical and management skills, instituting new product development and characterization procedures to minimize revisions and time-to-market. Developed more than 30 products for AC/DC, DC/DC, Power Management IC, and LED lighting product lines. Advised on product definition, supervised IC design and layout, and assisted with silicon debug and design fixes. Selected foundries and process technologies for next-generation products.

Integrated circuit research and development for the System and Power Management Business Unit. Expertise in high-voltage analog integrated circuit design, utilizing CMOS, DMOS, JFET, and BJT devices. Knowledgeable in the areas of process technology, device modeling and characterization, mask design and verification, and process/product reliability. Recruited and built a design team in Austin; recruited key staff to other departments in Maxim, including Business Management, Applications Engineering, and Technology Research and Development. Coordinated Maxim’s first high-voltage Bipolar/CMOS/DMOS process development and qualification for telecommunications, ultrasound, and automotive applications. Coordinated efforts of organizations including technology research and development, modeling and characterization, CAD, and quality assurance, in order to bring the process to the design community and production. Designed new devices and helped to test, model, and qualify them. Designed Maxim's first high voltage hot-swap products. Worked with customers and applications engineers to define these products and their successors. Pioneered high voltage design techniques and circuits used throughout the company. Key contributor to the definition and design of Maxim's first Power-Over-Ethernet product. Designed power-supply controllers and supervisors for telecommunications and computer equipment. Experience includes design of voltage references, linear and switching regulators, current-sense amplifiers, electronic circuit breakers, charge pumps, oscillators, comparators, and operational amplifiers. Supervised IC mask design, test program development, design characterization, and data sheet preparation. Assisted with product qualification.

Thesis: “An Optical Telemetry System for Wireless Transmission of Biomedical Signals Across the Skin.” Designed ultra-low-power integrated circuits for the amplification, encoding, and optical transmission of single and multiple channels of biomedical signals including EEG, EMG, and neural waveforms. Designed and assembled optical signal receivers with decoding and demultiplexing circuitry for these systems. Wrote signal processing software. Collaborated on design and assembly of prototype optically-coupled neural waveform telemeter using commercially available components. Prepared grant applications and progress reports for government and private sector funding.

Thesis: “Design Considerations for Minimizing Noise in Micropower CMOS Integrated Circuits.” Studied theoretical models of noise in BJT, JFET, and MOSFET transistors and other circuit elements. Designed and built computer-interfaced noise measurement system for quantifying noise of CMOS transistors in both strong and weak inversion (subthreshold) operation. Formulated design strategy for optimizing the trade-off between power consumption and noise in CMOS analog circuits. • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention, 1993-1994 • Raytheon Fellow in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, 1992-1993

Summa Cum Laude Mathematics Minor • “Outstanding Graduating Senior” in Cullen College of Engineering, 1992 • “Outstanding Graduating Senior” in Department of Electrical Engineering, 1992 • Selected as “Outstanding Engineering Student” by the Texas Society of Professional Engineers, 1991 and 1992 • Achievement Rewards For College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Scholarship • Houston Electrical League Scholarship • National Merit Scholarship