MANAGEMENT TEAM

Cary first came to ChipWrights as an ASIC architect with his first responsibility as Technical Lead and Program Manager for the very successful CW4512. He has since held positions as Director of Hardware Engineering and Vice President of Engineering and is currently the General Manager of the ChipWrights division of the AD Group. Before Chipwrights, Cary was a founder of Top Layer Networks and the Director of Hardware Engineering at Chinook Communications where he helped develop ground breaking technology in video compression and error correction coding. Cary holds an MSEE degree and a BSEE degree from the University of Michigan. Cary has been awarded four patents in the field of digital computer architecture.

John was one of the founders of ChipWrights. He invented the architecture of the company's proprietary DSP, wrote the first versions of the assembler and simulator, and oversaw the specification and development of the company's chips. He also wrote key pieces of the company's imaging and codec libraries, including the video processing pipeline. Before ChipWrights he was an ASIC Architect at Oak Technology and Pixel Magic, where he developed chips and software to handle the imaging and color needs of digital office equipment. He started his career at Digital Equipment Corp in 1981,where he worked on full-custom VAX and Alpha microprocessor chips. John holds a MSEE from Stanford and a BSEE from MIT, and has 9 granted patents and 3 pending.