Dr Neil Weste

Dr Neil Weste has a BSc, BE(Elec.) and PhD from the University of Adelaide. He spent 18 years in the US working for Bell Labs, MCNC and Symbolics Inc. before co-founding TLW Inc., an IC design house in Burlington, MA. He commenced working for Bell Labs in 1977 working on early VLSI design tools (the MULGA suite). He taught at Duke and UNC (Chapel Hill) in 1981/2 and was VP Design&Systems at MCNC in North Carolina. In 1984 he joined Symbolics to lead an effort on the Ivory single chip Lisp machine. He returned to Australia in 1995 as Professor of Microelectronic Systems at Macquarie University. In 1997, he co-founded Radiata Communications, which pioneered single chip implementations of the IEEE 802.11a Wireless LAN standard. Cisco Systems acquired Radiata in 2001. In 2004, he founded NHEW R&D Pty Ltd, which manages angel investments in Australian high technology companies and carries out R&D in the RF IC area.

Dr Weste is co-author of a best selling text on CMOS IC design originally published in 1985 and now in its third edition (May 2004). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and is a peer elected member of the IEEE Solid State Circuits administrative committee. He is a member of the ITR advisory board at the University of South Australia and an adjunct professor at Macquarie University and the University of Adelaide.