GaN Panel featuring experts from Freescale, MACOM, Qorvo and Empower RF - Sponsored by Richardson RFPD
The panelists will discuss the attributes of GaN for RF applications including wireless, automotive, multimedia and communications, covering the semiconductors strengths and weaknesses for addressing specific applications compared to other existing technologies and its outlook for development and adoption in new application targeting higher frequency green-field initiatives. Topics to be discussed include:
• Thermal management and optimization
• Broadband performance and applications
• Ruggedness and reliability advantages
• Packaging requirements
• Cost drivers and pricing
Sumit Tomar, General Manager, Qorvo’s Wireless Infrastructure Business Unit
Sumit Tomar, General Manager, Qorvo Sumit Tomar is General Manager of Qorvo’s Wireless Infrastructure Business Unit. Prior to joining Qorvo (formed from the merger of TriQuint and RFMD), Sumit was in various marketing and product line management roles at Texas Instruments, National Semiconductor and Skyworks where he was responsible for driving product line strategy and revenue growth of high-performance RF, analog and mixed signal ICs for the communication infrastructure market. Sumit obtained BS and MSEE degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology.
David Runton, Director of Design Engineering, MACOM
David Runton received his Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Physics from Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, FL in 1993, a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (1993) and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) from Georgia Tech in 1994. He has also received a Master of Business Administration as part of the High Technology Program from Arizona State University in 1999. He has held positions as an RF Design and Applications Engineer with Motorola Semiconductor (now Freescale), led the High Power GaN engineering team at RFMD, VP of Engineering at Nitronex, and is now the Director of MACOM’s Design Center in Research Triangle Park (RTP), NC.
Eric Westberg, Portfolio Cellular Infrastructure, Freescale
Eric Westberg is a portfolio manager for cellular infrastructure RF products at Freescale Semiconductor. In addition to product management he has held engineering and management positions in application engineering, systems engineering and business development in the wireless and semiconductor industries. Eric earned his master’s degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University and undergraduate degrees from Wheaton College and the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Jon Jacocks, President and CEO, Empower RF Systems
Jon is the President and CEO of Empower RF Systems. He joined Empower in November 2007 as the company’s first VP of Sales and served in that capacity until transitioning into the CEO role in January 2013. Empower RF Systems was an early adopter of GaN technology for use in vehicle mount electronic warfare applications as early as 2006 and the technical team continues to design with GaN devices for increasingly higher power applications in not only electronic warfare, but also radar, test and measurement, and SATCOM.