Dr. Herman Schmit has a perfect combination of impressive academic credentials together with broad industry experience. Prior to joining eASIC, Dr. Schmit was the Chief Hardware Architect at Tabula Inc, (Santa Clara), a stealth-mode chip start-up. Before Tabula, Dr. Schmit was Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He has published more than 40 technical articles in leading journals and conference proceedings, was the general chair of the International Symposium on FPGAs in 2005, and has been awarded 11 patents in the areas of Integrated Circuits and Programmable Gate Arrays. He was a coauthor on the first academic papers on the Structured ASIC concept.
Dr. Schmit received his B.S.E. in Computer Science Engineering from University of Pennsylvania in 1987, and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1995. |