 Mr.
Bradbury has worked and taught for over forty years in electronics
industry. Before founding EduMedia Development Corp., he was
Manager of CMOS Layout Training at Altera, Corp., a large PLD
manufacturer in Silicon Valley where he also managed three to
four projects at any given moment. In the not to distant past,
he lead the layout team for industry's first 100,000 gate PLD
and also the first 2meg flash serial EEPROM designed specifically
for in system programming of PLDs. And recently, he has returned
from an assignment in Penang, Malaysia where he co-hired and
then taught over 50 entry level Layout Engineers how to do CMOS
IC Layout. This new Penang organization is now fully standalone
and is doing flagship design under the able direction of Mr.
S. K. Ling, Director of Design Automation, Penang, Malaysia.
During Mr. Bradbury's stint in South
East Asia, he also donated his time to numerous government /
industry sponsored trade and polytechnic schools by teaching
an "Introduction to CMOS Layout" class based on his
own written materials. During this same two-year period, he
also donated his time to teaching this same class to the instructors
at many different educational institutions. Mr. Bradbury’s goals
were to provide a hands-on learning experience to the local
instructors so they could pass on these layout skills to their
students thus expanding the potential labor pool for the burgeoning
semiconductor industry in Malaysia. Mr. Bradbury's most recent
effort has involved converting his book "Introduction to
CMOS IC Layout: A Guide to Topological Chip Design" to
an on-line learning program with combined layout editor and
verification tools from Mentor Graphics Corp.
Some interesting highlights from Mr. Bradbury’s
resume:
- Received patent for hand held barcode
reader with integrated transceiver for medical data acquisition
and data dissemination. (Clinicom Corp.)
- Patent pending on very high current,
high capacity >(150 lb.), EDM device (Ecotronix, Corp.)
- Patent applied for on new delivery method
for on-line learning (EduMedia Development Corp.)
- 1967 Designed first thin film electronic
module for Timex wristwatch. (AeroJet General Corp.)
- Developed electro-mechanical packaging
for high speed data mux for first FLIR video system (AeroJet
General Corp.)
- Performed all layout for 4bit microprocessor
chip for the first commercial OEM single board computer (Computer
Automation Corp.)
- Established Design Automation Department
including CAD and Layout groups for IC layout (Computer Automation
Corp.)
- Designed chest pack enunciator panel
for first manned space walk (Symbolic Displays)
- Designed control panel for version II
of the X-15 rocket plane. (North American Aviation)
- Designed all PCBs for largest traveling
message board (at that time) for the Tropicana Hotel in Las
Vegas. (Webster Systems and Controls)
- Developed layout methodology to migrate
10 layer VME printed circuit boards to 6 layers (Pacific Microcomputers)
- Conceived idea and wrote methodology
for auto-instantiation of filter capacitors on microprocessors.
Program was called DICE = Decoupling by Instantiation of Capacitive
Elements (Intel Corp.)
- Lead layout team for industry's first
100,000 gate PLD. Total transistor count = 9,896,711
- Developed training program for entry
level Layout Engineers and wrote "Introduction to CMOS
IC Layout" text
- Co-hired and then taught CMOS layout
to 50 entry level Layout Engineers, Altera Corp, (Penang, Malaysia)
- Developed instructional program using
"Introduction to CMOS Layout" with focus on PLDs for
all new entry level Layout Engineers, Altera, Corp. (San Jose,
CA)
- Taught "Introduction to CMOS Layout"
at Gered Trade School (San Jose, CA)
Different semiconductor process used during
the past 35 years. 4 phase Metal gate CMOS (1967)
- Ion implanted metal gate PMOS (1968)
- Ion implanted metal gate NMOS (1969)
- Metal gate CMOS on sapphire (1971)
- Poly gate PMOS (1973)
- Poly gate NMOS (1978)
- Poly gate CMOS (1980)
- Double Poly FLASH CMOS (1997)
- Copper CMOS (2000)
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