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Dr. Rhines has been a member of the Board since 1995. During that time, he has also served as Chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics Corporation, an Electronic Design Automation company with revenue of over $700 million. Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, Rhines was Executive Vice President of the Semiconductor Group of Texas Instruments Inc. where he shared responsibility for the TI Components Sector and had direct responsibility for all of TI's Semiconductor business. During his 21 years at TI, Rhines managed TI’s thrust into digital signal processing and supervised that business from inception with the TMS 320 family of DSP’s through growth to become the cornerstone of TI’s semiconductor technology. He was also responsible for development of the first TI speech synthesis devices (used in Speak & Spell) and is co-inventor of the GaN blue-violet light emitting diode (now important for DVD players). He was President of TI’s Data Systems Group and held numerous other semiconductor executive management positions. He is currently Vice-Chairman of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDAC) and serves on the Boards of the Semiconductor Research Corporation, Cirrus Logic, Mentor Graphics, Lewis & Clark College and the Oregon Engineering and Technology Industry Council. He holds a BSE in metallurgical engineering from the University of Michigan, an MS and PhD
from Stanford University, an MBA from Southern Methodist University and an Honorary Doctor of Technology from Nottingham Trent University. | 