Biographical sketches of authors
Richard F. Rizzolo
IBM System/390 Division, 522 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (rizzolo@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Rizzolo is a Senior Engineer and served as test team leader for the S/390 G4 and G5 projects. He also had primary responsibility for sorting for S/390 chips designed in Poughkeepsie. He received his B.S. degree in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1977 and his M.E. degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer in 1980. Since joining IBM in 1978, Mr. Rizzolo has worked on bipolar and CMOS projects in the areas of design for testability, high-frequency design and timing analysis, diagnostics, and circuit design. In 1994 Mr. Rizzolo was assigned to Boeblingen, Germany, to develop CMOS timing methodology. He is a member of the IEEE and holds three patents and several published inventions. Mr. Rizzolo is a co-author of several papers in the field of testability and diagnostics; he has received three Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards and two Outstanding Innovation Awards.
Guenter Hinkel
IBM System/390 Division, Boeblingen, Germany (hinkel@ibmde).
Mr. Hinkel joined IBM in 1964 after graduating in physics from the university in Hamburg, Germany. He began work in the Central Component Evaluation and Application Laboratory in Sindelfingen, Germany, in the areas of memory chip characterization and qualification. After two one-year assignments, in Kingston/Poughkeepsie and East Fishkill, he was appointed to a management position in 1969. In 1978 Mr. Hinkel moved to the Boeblingen Development Laboratory as manager in Product Assurance and then in VLSI Development. His assignments also included leading the Boeblingen CMOS pilot line yield enhancement task force in 1986 and 1987 and development and implementation of the performance sorting methodology for S/390 CMOS chips in cooperation with the S/390 team and MD Burlington from 1994 until 1999. He has received several major awards, including a Corporate Award for his outstanding contributions in the area of CMOS chip performance management. Mr. Hinkel is also a member of the German ITG/VDE in the expert group on quality and reliability of high-density semiconductor devices,
Steven Michnowski
IBM System/390 Division, 522 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (michnows@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Michnowski is an Advisory Engineer in S/390 Test Development. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1984. After joining IBM in 1984, he was responsible for custom I/O circuit design and analysis for memory interface products. His present responsibilities include establishing system cycle-time performance criteria and test-pattern generation for the L2 cache chip. Mr. Michnowski has received an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and several informal awards; he has several published invention disclosures.
Thomas J. McPherson
IBM System/390 Division, 522 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (mcpherso@us.ibm.com).
Mr. McPherson is an Engineering Manager in S/390 Microprocessor Development. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University in 1990 and his M.S. degree in computer engineering from Syracuse University in 1994. Mr. McPherson joined IBM in 1990 as a logic designer for CMOS ASIC designs. Since 1994 he has worked on CMOS microprocessor designs. Mr. McPherson was the Frequency Leader for the G5 and G6 microprocessors; he is currently working on future S/390 microprocessors.
Allen J. Sutcliffe
IBM System/390 Division, 522 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (asutclif@us.ibm.com).
Mr. Sutcliffe is an Advisory Engineer in System Technology Engineering Test and Validation, where he is the team leader. His primary responsibility is qualifying S/390 CMOS servers with respect to cycle time and manufacturability. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1979, and a B.S. degree in computer science with emphasis on hardware from Union College in 1984. Since joining IBM in 1979, Mr. Sutcliffe has worked on voltage, frequency, and temperature characterization and resolution of engineering, manufacturing, and field problems for bipolar and CMOS systems. He has received four Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards and several informal and team awards.
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