Robert French

Square Dance Calling

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From 1990 to 1996 I worked on my Ph.D. at Stanford. While at Stanford I coauthored the SUIF Compiler System, a freely available infrastructure for compiler research. I was also General Chairman of the First SUIF Compiler Workshop. My research was on methods for compiling event-driven simulations, in particular Verilog models. You can see my DAC 95 paper, A General Method for Compiling Event-Driven Simulations. In addition, I've published papers on a variety of other topics from optical computers to distributed databases. Here is a list of papers with pointers to viewable source.

I left Stanford in the fall of 1996 to found a startup called Silicon Spice with two MIT students. Silicon Spice's vision was to provide high-density, low-power semiconductor solutions for the Voice over IP market. Our CALISTO system (proprietary chip architecture, development tools, and application suite) provided the only fully-integrated solution in the industry. Although I did just about everything at one time or another, my primary responsibility at Silicon Spice was to drive the development tools organization. I also helped with the design of the CALISTO chip architecture. After four and a half years in stealth mode, we were acquired by Broadcom Corporation and became the new Carrier Access Business Unit. I left Broadcom in 2001.