Richard Booth

Richard Booth (M’78–SM’02) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD, USA, in 1980, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, in 1983 and 1989, respectively.,From 1989 to 1992, he was with IMEC vzw, Leuven, Belgium, working on process and device modeling, simulation, and optimization. From 1992 to 2006, he was with Bell Labs/AT&T, Lucent Technologies Inc., and Agere Systems Inc., Allentown, PA, USA, as a Technical Manager of the Compact-Modeling and Device Testing Group and a Staff Member of the Mixed-Signal Design Group, designing phase-locked loops. From 2006 to 2012, he was with Lattice Semiconductor, Bethlehem, working on PLL, SerDes, and high-speed I/O buffer design for FPGA products. From 2011 to 2012, he was with Enpirion Inc., Hampton, NJ, USA, working on a high-voltage power-supply current monitor, including an SAR A/D converter (ADC) and SMbus serial interface, and dc–dc buck converter characterization. He is currently with Cisco Systems Inc., Allentown, working on electrical interface and control circuits for silicon photonics transceiver modules.