Dr. Nick Tredennick works
with computer- and semiconductor-based startup
companies and is a member of the Army Science
Board (a Federal Advisory Committee). For two
and a half years, he was Chief Scientist at
Altera, a programmable logic company. He has
extensive experience in MEMS (Micro Electrical
Mechanical Systems), microprocessor design, with
nine patents in microprocessor logic design and
re-configurable computing. He was named a Fellow
of the IEEE for his contributions to microprocessor
design. At Motorola he designed the MC68000,
the microprocessor that powered the original Macintosh
computers. At IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center
he designed the Micro/370 microprocessor. He
has been the founder of several Silicon Valley
startups including Nexgen, which went public and
was bought by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). At
Nexgen, he hired and managed the team that designed
the microprocessor that became the AMD K-6.
Dr. Tredennick has taught at the University
of California, Berkeley and at the University
of Texas, Austin. He is the author of a textbook,
Microprocessor Logic Design, and almost fifty
technical papers and is frequently a featured
speaker at technical conferences. Dr. Tredennick
is on the editorial boards of Microprocessors
and Microsystems, Microprocessor Report, and
Embedded Developers Journal. He is currently
the author of DynamicSilicon, the news letter
which is published by Gilder Publishing.
Dr. Tredennick holds MSEE and BSEE degrees from
Texas Tech University, where he was named a Distinguished
Engineering Graduate. He earned a PhD in electrical
engineering at the University of Texas. Dr. Tredennick
was recently nominated as an IEEE representative
to the Engineering Accreditation Commission.
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