SiTime, Silicon MEMS Oscillators and Clock Generators

Fariborz (Fari) Assaderaghi received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from SDSU, graduating Summa Cum Laude and University Valedictorian in 1989. After an internship with AT&T Bell Labs, he attended UC Berkeley where he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1992 and 1994, respectively. After graduation, Dr. Assaderaghi joined HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA. From 1995 to 2001 he was with IBM TJ Watson Research Center in New York where he co-developed the first commercial version of CMOS SOI for VLSI. The technology became the workhorse for IBM’s high-end microprocessors and was used in Apple’s processors, as well as Sony Playstation-3 Cell Processor. He was the technology director for Silicon Wave Inc., a San Diego based company developing Bluetooth products, from 2001 to 2003. Silicon Wave was later acquired by RF Micro Devices Corporation. From 2003 till 2008, he was with Rambus (Los Altos, CA), most recently as the Senior Director of Engineering. His groups were responsible for developing very high speed chip-to-chip data communication circuits, including all high-speed links for the PS3 Cell processor, TI DLP, and 16Gb/s ASIC to memory links for the Terabyte/sec initiative. Dr. Assaderaghi has contributed to two book chapters and to more than 80 technical papers. He holds 47 patents, with more than 20 pending.