John Ford

Current

• DFT Lead at Solarflare Communications, Inc.

Past

• Blogger at DFT Digest
• Senior DFT Engineer at Freescale
• Verification Lead at Valence Semiconductor

• Senior Staff Engineer at Texas Instruments
• Engineer at Texas Instruments
• Senior Staff Engineer at Silicon Systems
• Associate Principal Engineer at Western Digital
• Consultant at Diversified MicroDesigns

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Education

• California State University-Long Beach
• University of California, Irvine

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Connections

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Industry

Semiconductors

Websites

• My Blog
• DFT Forum

John Ford’s Summary

Design-for-Test (DFT) Specialist with 25+ years of experience in IC design, test and verification.

John Ford’s Specialties:

DFT technologies: Scan/ATPG, BIST, JTAG, Test Compression, At-speed Test

John Ford’s Experience

• DFT Lead

  Solarflare Communications, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  June 2002 — Present (7 years 6 months)

  Responsible for testability and DFT large. high speed IC designs. Expert in design-for-test methods, technology and implementation.

• Blogger

  DFT Digest

  (Semiconductors industry)

  2005 — 2008 (3 years )

• Senior DFT Engineer

  Freescale

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FSL; Semiconductors industry)

  September 2004 — August 2005 (1 year )

  Design-for-Test Specialist

• Verification Lead

  Valence Semiconductor

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Semiconductors industry)

  May 2001 — June 2002 (1 year 2 months)

• Senior Staff Engineer

  Texas Instruments

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Semiconductors industry)

  1996 — 2001 (5 years )

  Design-for-Test and Verification

• Engineer

  Texas Instruments

  (Public Company; Semiconductors industry)

  1996 — 2001 (5 years )

• Senior Staff Engineer

  Silicon Systems

  (Public Company; Semiconductors industry)

  1996 — 1996 (less than a year)

  Mixed Signal Test Engineer

• Associate Principal Engineer

  Western Digital

  (Public Company; Semiconductors industry)

  1983 — 1996 (13 years )

• Consultant

  Diversified MicroDesigns

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  June 1988 — June 1991 (3 years 1 month)

  Computer consulting partnership providing networking, software and training services for small- to mid-sized businesses

John Ford’s Education

• California State University-Long Beach

  1980 — 1986

• University of California, Irvine

  1978 — 1979

Additional Information

John Ford’s Websites:

• My Blog
• DFT Forum

John Ford’s Interests:

Design-for-Test (DFT), music, family

John Ford’s Groups:

IEEE member, 10 years

•    Western Digital Alumni (previously ex-WDer's Club)
•    CSULB Alumni Association
•    Semiconductor Product, Test and DFT Engineering
•    JTAG & DFT Engineers
•    VLSI Design for Test
•    EDA Bloggers
•    DFT Experts
•    The Current Test Group
•    Twisted Oak Winery
•    Test & Measurement World
•    Silicon Systems Inc. (SSi) alumni

John Ford’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch