Eric Peers

Current

• Founder at Missing Link Tools

Past

• Proprietor at Altacumbre Consulting
• Design Verification Engineer at Montalvo Systems
• Verification Engineer at AMD

• Verification Contractor at Ball Aerospace
• Design/DV Monkey at Motorola Semiconductor
• DV Monkey at Emulex
• DV Monkey at Cyrix
• Intern/Verification Consultant at Idealogy

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Education

• University of Colorado at Boulder

Recommended

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Connections

303 connections

Industry

Computer Hardware

Websites

• Consulting
• Mtnboy - personal
• My Company

Eric Peers’s Summary

DV and Hardware Design Engineer with lots of Software Experience: a renaissance kind of guy. Plenty of Startup experience and a love for small businesses.

Check out my website: www.missinglinktools.com

Eric Peers’s Specialties:

c/c++ programmer, assembly, perl, sql, verilog, vhdl, you name it, I've written code in it.

Eric Peers’s Experience

• Founder

  Missing Link Tools

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  Missing Link tools provides a complete front-end design management suite for developing a semiconductor chip. We offer test and regression management, release management, bug tracking and integration, and project level reporting through and through.
  
  I am one of the the 2 founders, aka marathon coding monkeys.

• Proprietor

  Altacumbre Consulting

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  2003 — 2009 (6 years )

  I am a consultant for my own consulting company. I do a lot of coding for a commercial loan database: www.c-loans.com. It is a pretty nifty tool that lets you find hard money loans (and other commercial mortgages) for businesses that are secured by property. You can search for loans (as a mortgage broker) and you can search for lenders (as a borrower). There are roughly 250,000 people that have used C-Loans and another 2.5 million transactions that it has transferred.

• Design Verification Engineer

  Montalvo Systems

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

  January 2007 — April 2008 (1 year 4 months)

  Verification Monkey - write tests, models, that sort of fun stuff. I mostly was working on L2/L3 cache verification and switch/bridge coherency-point verification.
  
  Montalvo closed up shop and sold about 1/4 of their engineers to Sun. The remainder were laid off.

• Verification Engineer

  AMD

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMD; Computer Hardware industry)

  October 2005 — August 2006 (11 months)

  I was the verification engineer responsible for the wetterhorn CPU core at AMD. The LDC site shut down from July-September of 2006.

• Verification Contractor

  Ball Aerospace

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  October 2004 — May 2005 (8 months)

  Built verification methodology & verified 2 FPGA for Kepler mission. Also worked on hirise verification & debug.

• Design/DV Monkey

  Motorola Semiconductor

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

  2002 — 2004 (2 years )

  Worked for C-Port in Boulder, CO

• DV Monkey

  Emulex

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; ELX; Computer Hardware industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years )

• DV Monkey

  Cyrix

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Semiconductors industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years )

• Intern/Verification Consultant

  Idealogy

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year )

Eric Peers’s Education

• University of Colorado at Boulder

  BSE , Electrical Computer Engineering , 1993 — 1997

Additional Information

Eric Peers’s Websites:

• Consulting
• Mtnboy - personal
• My Company

Eric Peers’s Interests:

Beer Brewing, Climbing, Skiing, Climbing, Biking, Climbing, and Rock Climbing.

Eric Peers’s Groups:

I help out with Climbing for Life: www.climbingforlife.org

•    CU Business Networking
•    Startup Specialists
•    Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Alumni
•    Colorado Entrepreneurs
•    Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup
•    ASIC / VLSI Experts
•    Giganet Alumni

Eric Peers’s Honors:

I received a gold star in Grade School.
I also was a member of TBP/Golden Key.

Eric Peers’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
• expertise requests
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