Richard Bishop Email & Phone Number

Reponsible for Chip-level integration tasks for Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).

- Steering Commitee Member at Colonial Jobseekers (CJS) in Cary, NC serving a regular weekly attendance of 200+ jobseekers from May - Dec 2009- Small Interest Group (SIG) Leader for the Engineering SIG. Facilitates group discussions, provides encouragement and networking opportunities for job seekers. - Assisted with room setups and was the substitute SIG.

Volunteer with the Purple Elephant Computer Factory (http://www.purpleelephant.org). This organization is a non-profit that takes donated PCs and refurbishes them for resale. A $100 PC with Windows XP installed is available through this organization.Richard was interviewed on WRAL TV-5 on 6/5/2009 at the Purple Elephant Computer Factory. The link to the.

Responsible for the Automatic Place & Route (APR) flow utilizing only 3 routing metals within a primary full-custom layout/schematic environment encompassing schematic and RTL implementation to GDSII.

Implementation of customer designs in the areas of timing constraint evaluation, floorplanning, design for test (DFT) insertion, physical synthesis, timing closure and post silicon support.

Responsible for the complete ASIC implementation process for customer designs including package bonding, floorplanning, DFT insertion, physical implementation, timing closure, manufacturing test vectors, and first silicon debug.

Developed, deployed, and supported a Makefile based synthesis design flow utilizing Design-Compiler and Module Compiler from Synopsys for a 2.5M+ gate ASIC operating at 100MHz targeting PC graphics applications (~40 design blocks implemented at 200nm technology).

Planned and directed in-house developmental programs to exploit radar and missile systems; managed external projects for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Msee, Electrical Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Summa Cum Laude Distinguished Graduate, Air Force ROTC