Resume of  Ronald H Nicholson, Jr.
	1909 Magdalena Circle, #76
	Santa Clara, CA  95051
	408-296-7535
	rhn@nicholson.com

Objective:  Senior ASIC Architect and/or ASIC Project Manager

Highlights:
- Innovative inventor and problem solver on industry leading, forward
  thinking technologies: SGI Set top box architecture; Nintendo64 ASIC
  design; Amiga architecture; Apple Macintosh ASIC design.
- Wide variety of technical interests including entrepreneurial ventures.
- Experienced technical presenter who enjoys customer interaction.  

Work History:
2005 - 2008     Agate Logic, Director of Applications and Architecture
        Microarchitecture and design of FPGA interconnect, 3 tape outs.

2002 - 2004 	HotPaw Productions, PalmOS development and DSP consulting

2000 - 2002 	Palmchip, Inc., Senior Member of the Technical Staff   	
	Architect of a high-performance system-on-a-chip (SOC) interconnect.

1994 - 1999 	Silicon Graphics, Inc., Member of the Technical Staff  		
	Advanced Media Products: Microarchitecture and subsystem design
	of a 200 MHz 3 million plus gate-equivalent HDTV multimedia ASIC.
	MIPS Consumer Group: Microarchitecture of a combined MPEG-2/DVD
	decoder and 3D graphics ASIC.  One U.S. patent granted.
	SGI Interactive Digital Solutions:  Defined and delivered
	interactive television set-top box hardware for NTT.  Designed
	a portion of the MIPS Reality Co-Processor, which is used in the
	highly successful Nintendo64 video game console.

1993 - 1994	Sierra Research & Technology, Senior Design Engineer 
	Microarchitect of an OC-12 ATM network interface ASIC.

1991 - 1993	Sigma Designs, Manager of Technology 
	Managed the ASIC design group and a small CAE staff.  Designed high
	speed video imaging custom ICs.  Developed in-house CAD tools.

1985 - 1991	Hewlett Packard, Development Engineer
	Systems Technology Division: Design of an experimental testbed
	system for GaAs and ECL VLSI.
	HP Entry System Operation: ASIC design for PA-RISC workstation.

1984       	Information Appliance Inc., Software Project Manager
	Developed experimental user interfaces for the Canon Cat computer.

1983 - 1984 	Amiga Computer, Director of Hardware Engineering
	Designed the prototype for the 68000 based Amiga computer.
	Co-architect of three full custom VLSI integrated circuits
	including color graphics, video, bit-blit and vector graphics
	acceleration, audio synthesis, and disk controller. Staffed and
	organized the initial engineering team.  Issued U.S.  patents
	4,777,621; 4,874,164, 5,103,499 and 5,594,473 for the Amiga
	graphics and architecture.

1980 - 1983 	Apple Computer, Member of the Technical Staff
	Macintosh Division: Project Engineer for four custom integrated
	circuits including the Mac and Apple IIc IWM disk controller chip.
	Apple II Division:  Designed the Apple II Super Serial Card.

Education:  UC Berkeley, BS in Engineering Mathematics

Technical Skills:
	Verilog, Synopsys DC, Linux/Unix, C, MacOS and PalmOS development.
Other:
	Licensed Private Pilot.  Advanced class amateur radio license N6YWU.
	U.S. Citizen.  Member of IEEE.  Excellent health.  Willing to travel.
	Professional references available upon request.             (Jun/08)