Chief Executive Officer: Finbarr O'Regan PhD
Dr. Finbarr O'Regan has over 13 years experience in the IC design industry as a consultant, technical trainer and design engineer. He is a founder of Xerenet. He has worked on many projects including technical due diligence, system modelling, CAD flow development, logic synthesis, RTL design, layout and static timing analysis. He has given over 50 courses around the world on behalf of Esperan and more recently has been developing his own training courses in digital design, Verilog, low power design methodologies, digital signal processing and UNIX for IC design engineers.
In 2005, Finbarr was co-technical chair and chair of the local organizing committee of the European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, the third largest circuit theory conference in the world. He holds a PhD in Digital Signal Processing from University College Dublin, a Master's degree from Dublin City University and his undergraduate studies were at University College Cork. He also spent five years working as a design engineer at Silicon and Software Systems.
Chief Technology Officer: Donnacha Daly PhD
Dr. Donnacha Daly, a founder and chief technical officer at Xerenet, is directly responsible for overseeing the research and development of Xerenet's wireless product offering. This position includes definition of our wireless broadband products, the specification and standardization of the physical-, link- and network-layers, the implementation of our system on a single silicon chip and the testing and improvement of our ASIC offering in line with customer feedback.
Donnacha graduated from the DSP Group in University College Dublin with a PhD on the topic of efficient multi-carrier communications for DSL. He spent 3 years working as a consultant researcher with Gigabit-ethernet chipset providers Massana and spent another 3 years as Deputy-CTO of Advanced Communications Networks, Switzerland, where he played a strong role in leading the systems research and development of ACN's first generation broadband power-line technology.
IC Design Engineer: Cormac O'Shea
Cormac O'Shea studied Electronic Engineering at the University of Limerick and graduated in 1993. Since that time he has worked almost exclusively in the area of mobile telephony.
Cormac first joined Silicon and Software Systems (S3) in Dublin, where he spent two years working on the development of Operations and Maintenance (O&M) software for GSM base stations.
In 1996 Cormac switched gears, moved away from embedded SW development and took up a role as an IC designer with Integral Design - an Irish design services start-up business. During this time Cormac spent almost 3 years as a senior development engineer on a 100MIPS, low-power, general purpose DSP design. In June 2000 Integral Design was purchased by Xilinx. At Xilinx Cormac managed a group of engineers with a focus on HW/SW co-design.
In late 2002 Cormac moved to Motorola/Freescale in Cork, where he spent 3.5 years working on the development of radio transceiver chips for the wireless 2.75G/3G standards. With Freescale Cormac was involved in the specification and development of the digital transceiver architectures and focused particularly on the digital receiver design.
System Architect: David Naughton PhD
Dr. David Naughton is a founder and member of the Board of Directors of Xerenet. David has a strong research background which he brings to the research and development of leading edge physical layer technology as a System Architect for future high-speed networks.
David holds a PhD degree from the DSP Group at University College Dublin in wireless telecommunications. He has worked as a lecturer in telecommunications in NUI Maynooth for three years, teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. While at NUI Maynooth, Dr. Naughton also served on the executive committee of the Institute of Microelectronics and Wireless Systems. David brings with him state-of-the art knowledge in the telecommunications area.