Curriculum Vitae of Bob Adamson
1965-1967 | Technical Assistant | Elliott Automation Glenrothes, Fife. |
Various technical support activities in the design department of the newly-created MOS facility. | ||
1967-1980 | Senior Design Engineer | Hughes Microelectronics Weybridge, Surrey and Glenrothes, Fife. |
Worked in a variety of departments including integrated circuit design, test and systems development. Sponsored through BSc in Physics at Heriot-Watt university. | ||
1980-1982 | CAD Manager | General Instrument Glenrothes, Fife. |
Responsible for device modelling and integrated circuit simulation and layout software tools. | ||
1982-1988 | Design Manager | Marconi Electronic Devices Wembley and Lincoln. |
Managed a multi-site integrated circuit development department of about 80 engineers. Applications areas included mil/avionics, telecom and semicustom in cmos and cmos/sos technologies. | ||
1988-1992 | Manager Microelectronics Design Centre |
Northern Telecom (Nortel) (STC pre-takeover) Footscray, Kent. |
Managed the design centre and contributed to the development of telecom and wireless integrated circuits in cmos, bicmos and very high speed bipolar technologies. | ||
1992-1996 | Technical Director | Rood Technology Alton, Hampshire. |
Responsible for the company's test development activities and for establishing an integrated circuit design capability. | ||
1996-1998 | Consultant | freelance. |
Personal contributor to a number of complex proprietary integrated circuit developments. | ||
1998-2002 | Design Manager | Texas Instruments (Burr-Brown pre-takeover) Livingston, West Lothian. |
Managed the Integrated Circuit design department, mainly analogue in bicmos and bcdmos | ||
2002-2008 | Design Manager and Principal Member of Technical Staff |
Institute for System Level Integration
(now incorporated into its parent universities) Livingston, West Lothian. |
In a career change for a few years I was the technical focus for the Institute's wide range of EDA tools and techniques and contributed personally to development work such as integrated MEMS/CMOS devices. | ||
2008- | Retired from remunerative activities. | |
Amongst others, spending my time gardening, fiddling around with techy things and generally enjoying life. |
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