Mike Coulter

Current

Video Silicon Architect at Intel

Past

Director, IC Research and Development at 8x8, Inc.
Director, Engineering at Luxxon
Consultant at Motorola

Senior Design Engineer at Faroudja Labs
Design Engineer at General Instrument
Member of Technical Staff II at Hughes Missile Systems Group
Intern/Coop at NASA - Johnson Space Center (Houston)

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Education

UCLA
University of Oklahoma

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Industry

Semiconductors

Mike Coulter’s Summary

Mike Coulter’s Specialties:

Video compression architectures and design, SOC development

Mike Coulter’s Experience

Video Silicon Architect

Intel

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

February 2003 — Present (6 years 11 months)

Lead silicon architect of video compression technology for the consumer electronics field within Intels' Digital Home Group. Manage and drive the execution of video codec IP including satellite/terrestrial digital set-top boxes, DTV, connected CE devices, and Blu-Ray players/recorders. Specific video codec expertise includes MPEG4, DivX, MPEG2, H264 (AVC), JPEG.

Contact me at m.l.coulter@ieee.org
Director, IC Research and Development

8x8, Inc.

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; EGHT; Telecommunications industry)

February 2002 — February 2003 (1 year 1 month)

Silicon development lead for a Video/Voice over IP (VoIP) chip. Also founded and managed the 8x8, Inc IC design center in Tempe, AZ.
Director, Engineering

Luxxon

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

May 1999 — February 2002 (2 years 10 months)

Early member of this Silicon Valley start-up. Managed the front-end silicon development team for a 3G multimedia companion processor for mobile phone applications. Founded and managed Luxxon's Tempe Design Center.
Consultant

Motorola

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

1998 — 1999 (1 year )

Silicon lead for the Teledesic communications satellite program.
Senior Design Engineer

Faroudja Labs

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Semiconductors industry)

May 1997 — April 1998 (1 year )

Member of the design team responsible for the development of Faroudja's Digital Video Enhancer (DVE) for the first HDTV Upconverter Unit specifically designed for television broadcasters.
Design Engineer

General Instrument

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Semiconductors industry)

September 1993 — May 1997 (3 years 9 months)

Video set-top box chip design for terrestrial and satellite applications.
Member of Technical Staff II

Hughes Missile Systems Group

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

May 1989 — September 1993 (4 years 5 months)
Intern/Coop

NASA - Johnson Space Center (Houston)

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

September 1986 — August 1988 (2 years )