Brad Davis, President & Owner

In his 18 years of design experience, Brad has received 5 US patents, 1 European patent, while 3 US/European patents are in progress. He received a BSEE magna-cum-laude from the University of Utah in 1985 and received his MSEE degree from Yale University with honors in 1986.

Following his graduate degree, he joined Iomega Corp. designing servo systems for removable storage media systems and media formatting equipment. In 1988 he joined Honeywell in Phoenix designing analog ASICs for military and commercial flight systems. While at Honeywell, Brad's IC designs covered a broad range of customers, processes and applications including infrared imaging, pressure transducers, altimeters, low-noise fiber-optic-gyro navigation electronics in addition to transceivers for commercial aircraft.

In 1992 Brad joined Hewlett Packard in Boise Idaho developing accelerometers for 1.2" miniature disk drives. Partnering with Philips Research Laboratories in The Netherlands, Brad co-developed cutting edge read-channel and low-noise magneto-resistive preamplifier chipsets for hard-disk drives. In 1996 he joined Hewlett Packard's Integrated Circuits division in Colorado where he designed CMOS imaging sensor arrays, ADCs, and mass storage preamplifier ICs.

He joined VLSI Technology in 1998 as part of a newly formed team responsible for all strategic custom analog design for ASICs in North America.  Brad became the technical lead engineer for the remote Colorado design center which developed analog mega-blocks containing multiple ADCs, DACs, filters and PLLs for digital HDTV applications. As Philips purchased VLSI in 1999, Brad continued custom analog IC design for Philips' standard SoC analog library as well as wireless, network and video product divisions. Brad's library contributions for Philips' CMOS ASIC process included pipeline ADCs and 3.2 GHz LVDS transceivers. Brad was also responsible for co-developing front-to-back tool methodologies at Philips' remote Colorado analog center.

In 2002 Brad formed a remote analog design site in Fort Collins responsible for all CMOS base-band analog circuits for Airgo Networks, a WLAN startup company based in Palo Alto, California. While with Airgo, Brad's designs included CMOS base-band transmit and receive converters, low-jitter ADC clock references, as well as RF BiCMOS circuits for WLAN transceivers for TSMC's 0.13um technology.