Management

Edmond Macaluso

Co-founder and President

Z Circuit Automation

Image description Edmond has 22 years of experience in the EDA industry as a consultant, engineering manager and engineer. Edmond was the founder of Narrow Gauge EDA which provided engineering services for ASIC library development and ASIC physical design. Edmond developed the Artisan Components COT training workshops and was the principal instructor. Edmond worked for 10 years at Cadence Design Systems in the areas of IC place & route and layout automation technology. He was the original author of automatic physical cell modeling software for Cadence Silicon Ensemble. He won numerous awards at Cadence for engineering contributions and outstanding customer support. Edmond has a MSEE and BSEE from Texas A&M University and is a member of Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society.

Fred Obermeier

Image descriptionCo-founder and Chairman

Z Circuit Automation

Fred has 23 years of experience in the EDA industry and is well-know in the area of circuit characterization and performance modeling. Fred was an independent consultant and principal of Obermeier & Associates where he provided circuit design services and developed the core technology for Z CIRCUIT products. Fred was a principal engineer at MicroUnity Systems Engineering. He designed high-performance circuits and developed characterization software and flows for digital circuits. Fred worked at Cadence Design Systems prior to MicroUnity where he was the principal architect for automatic cell characterization development. Fred has a Ph.D. in Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration from U.C. Berkeley. He also has an MSCS from U.C. Berkeley with honors and BSEE from Univ. of Cincinnati, summa cum laude. Fred's dissertation was entitled "An Open Architecture For Improving VLSI Circuit Performance".

Ralph Lanham

Vice President of Engineering

Z Circuit Automation

Ralph has 27 years of experince in ASICs, Library Design and design automation.

Ralph joined Z Circuit Automation in 2006. Ralph was Director of Software development at Artisan (now ARM) where since 2002 he enabled the engineering IP development platform for 65nm and 90nm including io, sc and memory. Ralph provided leadership to increase the scale of automation and productivity. Prior to ARM, first with HP and later with Agilent Technologies, Ralph contributed extensively through engineering and management in memory generation, ASIC design and standard cell characterization and library automation. Ralph started his career at HP as a member of the Technical Staff and held various positions culminating with Library Section Manager with Agilent Technologies. Ralph has nine patents related to ASIC test and FERAM design.

Ralph earned a BSEE degree from the University of Arizona and a MSEE from San Jose State University.