Founder and President, EEMBC; President, Multicore Association In addition to his roles with EEMBC and the Multicore Association, Markus Levy is chairman and manager of the Multicore Expo conference series.
Markus has more than nine years of experience working with EDN Magazine and Instat/MDR. Beginning in 1987, Markus worked for Intel Corporation as both a senior applications engineer and customer training specialist for Intel's microprocessor and flash memory products. While at Intel, Markus received several patents for his ideas related to flash memory architecture and usage as a disk drive alternative.
Markus is also co-author of 'Designing with Flash Memory', the only technical book on this subject.
Sven Brehmer: President, PolyCore Software
Brehmer is a founding member of the Multicore Association and chairman of the Communications API working group. Prior to founding PolyCore Software, Brehmer served as senior director for Wind River’s Embedded Platforms Division, then home of VxWorks, pSOS and VSPWorks. During his tenure, Brehmer directed the on-schedule release of Tornado 2.2/VxWorks 5.5. He came to Wind River through the acquisition of Integrated Systems in 2000, where Brehmer served as the chief operating officer and executive vice president of DIAB-SDS, the market leader in embedded development tools for 32-bit RISC processors and a subsidiary of Integrated Systems. Prior to DIAB-SDS, Brehmer was the president and CEO of Diab Data, a software company developing compilers for the embedded market and the market leader for PowerPC compilers. While at Diab Data, Brehmer led the management buyout of Diab Data from the French parent company Groupe Bull, and he negotiated its merger with Integrated Systems in 1995.
Brehmer received his Master's degree in Electronics Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Steve Cox, VP Business Development North America, Target Compiler Technologies
Steve has 22 years of experience in microprocessor and SoC
design and integration, having worked on PowerPC, SPARC, and
88K (Motorola/Freescale) based systems. More recently, his
focus has been on the wide spectrum of alternative
programmable architectures that promise to bridge the gap
between general purpose microprocessors and fixed-function
RTL design. Steve holds patents in the area of
transaction-based verification of SoCs and is an alumnus of
the University of Colorado. Steve currently resides in Boulder, CO.
Max Domeika: Senior Staff Consultant in the Developer Products Division, Intel
In his role at Intel, Max Domeika creates software tools targeting the Intel Architecture market. Over the past 12 years, Max has held several positions at Intel in compiler development which include project lead for the C++ front end and developer on the optimizer and the IA32 code generator. Max currently provides technical consulting for a variety of products targeting Embedded Intel Architecture. Max also provides software tools training serving as an instructor with Intel(r) Software College. Max earned a BS in Computer Science from the University of Puget Sound, an MS in Computer Science from Clemson University, and an MS in Management in Science & Technology from Oregon Health & Science University.
Eric Heikkila: Director Embedded Hardware and Systems Practice, VDC
At Venture Development Corporation (VDC), Eric Heikkila provides program management for multi-client studies on embedded hardware markets. He also supports proprietary research programs in the embedded hardware systems space, including market opportunity assessments, strategic partnership planning, end user analyses, due diligence, pricing programs, and emerging technology opportunity assessments.
Jim Holt, Manager: Advanced Core Architecture Enablement, Freescale
Jim is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in Freescale’s NMG R&D division. Jim has 24 years of industry experience focused on microprocessor and SoC architecture, design verification, and optimization. Jim is an IEEE Senior Member, is a member of the Industrial Advisory Board for the Department of Computer Science and of the College of Science Advisory Council for Texas State University, is vice chair of the Integrated Circuits and Systems Sciences Area Committee for the Semiconductor Research Corporation, and is a board member for the Multicore Association. Jim earned a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Gary Smith, founder and Chief Analyst for Gary Smith EDA.
Previously, he was the Managing Vice President and Chief Analyst of the Electronic Design Automation Service, Design & Engineering Cluster at Gartner Dataquest. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Smith was a consultant in design methodology and worked in the ASIC end of the semiconductor business. While at LSI Logic, Mr. Smith became an evangelist for the RT-level design methodology. Starting in the semiconductor industry, Mr. Smith was involved in some of the first attempts at customer-designed ICs.
Ahmad has over 16 years of experience in the computer industry. Dr. Zandi began his career by doing database and storage compression at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He then moved to the Ricoh California Research Center where he made significant contributions in the areas of image and data compression. Prior to Solidware Technologies, Dr. Zandi spent 10 years at Sun Microsystems working on performance evaluation standards. As Sun's representative to SPEC and EEMBC, Zandi served as the chair of SPECmedia for several years. His latest responsibilities at Sun included the group management of technical and competitive intelligence for SPARC processors and servers. Dr. Zandi has doctorate degrees from University of California at Berkeley and University of California at Santa Cruz. He owns over 25 patents.
