Charles Meyerson

Charles Meyerson received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University in 1987 and 1997, respectively. He has been employed at the Medtronic Microelectronics Center in Tempe, Arizona from 1987 until present. After two years as an IC test engineer, Charles has worked the last 20 years as an IC design engineer. He has worked as both a digital and analog designer and as chip lead. Charles maintains strong interests in both design for test and design for reliability and has been actively involved in the use of IEEE 1149.1 and 1149.4 boundary scan standards. For the past several years, Charles has worked as an ESD and IO cell designer with responsibility for ESD device design, IO cell libraries, pad ring design and ESD failure analysis.

Rosario Consiglio

One of Silicon Valley’s most prolific ESD device and design professionals, Rosario has
completed more than 3,700 ESD design applications and 43 device libraries while at Advanced Micro Devices, LSI Logic, Maxim, VLSI Technology, and Impulse Semiconductor. Founded by Rosario in 1994, Impulse Semiconductor Inc. is an ESD metrology, design, and troubleshooting engineering service organization.

With more than 20 years of experience in the field, he is an expert in product applications involving on-chip protection for human body model (HBM), machine model (MM), and charged device model (CDM) ESD, to include European IEC specifications.

A graduate of Marquette University Electrical Engineering, Rosario has 11 patents covering ESD technology, from transmission line pulser instrumentation to semiconductor devices and circuits.  

Rosario is also a bass fishing enthusiast, enjoys playing ice hockey, and watching Green Bay Packer football.  

Denis P. Galipeau

Denis P. Galipeau received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island in 1988 and 1998, respectively.  He was employed by Cherry Semiconductor Corporation as an IC design engineer from 1988 until the company was acquired by ON Semiconductor in 2001. 

He continues to work for ON Semiconductor as a design engineering manager for the Automotive Business Unit, headquartered in East Greenwich, RI.  Mr. Galipeau is a Senior Member of IEEE, holds 3 U.S. patents, and is co-author of “Analog BiCMOS Design: Practices and Pitfalls.”