Mr.
Wieberneit has spent more than 25 years in the semiconductor industry, serving
in different R&D, CTO and General Manager positions at Intel, Lantiq,
Trident, Micronas and Infineon Technologies.
With
his background in semiconductor technology and SoC products and management
experience of the fabless chip maker business he brings the leadership and
visionary power to EXTOLL to proceed its journey on becoming the leading
supplier for cutting-edge interconnect IP.
»Extoll’s
low-power interconnect technology empowers next generation SoC connectivity.«
Dr. Krackhardt is a physicist
with expertise in optical signal transmission and measurements. After
several years in this field, he become the managing director of a company
with about 200 employees. He also founded and co-founded several software
development and optical technology companies. He brings significant
experience leading companies and proven skills in analyzing, planning, and
organizing business models and processes to EXTOLL.
»Flexible
business models are paramount for customer experience in semiconductor
IP.«
Dr. Nüssle is one of the
co-founders of EXTOLL. He has more than 12 years of experience in research
and development. In these years he participated in a number of research
and industrial projects in the areas of computer architecture, low-level
software, and RTL hardware design. Dr. Nüssle has worked on the EXTOLL
project from the beginning and helped design and implement both the
hardware and software. As the leader of the software and hardware
engineering teams, he defines the technical vision for EXTOLL.
»Digital-centric
design enables us to reach superior PPA, robustness, and portability
for our interconnect IPs.«
Prof. Brüning is one of the
co-founders of EXTOLL. He is a renowned researcher in the area of computer
architecture with a long track record of designing parallel hardware
architectures and interconnection networks. Prof. Brüning is a professor
of computer architecture at the University of Heidelberg, and co-founded
and was the CEO of a company that offered several unique sequential and
parallel UNIX computing systems. He has worked on numerous parallel and
high-performance machines and architectures. He designed the hardware for
the function-parallel machine „Starlet“ in 1983 and the node architecture
for the SUPRENUM parallel machine (an initiative to build a German
supercomputer from 1985 to 1990). In 1993, he architected the parallel
MANNA computer based on the Intel i860 processor and custom ASICs. Until
1995, he also took part in the development of the massively parallel
machine PowerMANNA based on the Motorola PowerPC620. In 2003, he presented
the HPC interconnection network ATOLL, which was a precursor to EXTOLL.
Within EXTOLL he sets the research strategy and direction and manages
collaboration with academia.
»Cutting-edge
design methodologies are the vital ingredient for successful
high-performance interconnect IP.«