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AnaPico   Analog High-Speed Products


 


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Founders

 

Dr. U. Lott, Founder

Urs earned his MS (1983) and PhD (1990) from ETH Zürich, Switzerland. During 1991 to 1999 he served as an project leader at the ETH and as Guest Researcher at NEC Central Research Laboratories in Japan. Urs headed several research projects funded by the EU and Switzerland. Between 1999 and 2003 he was active as co-founder, CTO and chairman of the board of acter AG (an ETH spin-off company) were he was responsible for all hardware developments including Bluetooth and GPS applications. Urs has a very broad technical background in microwave hybrid and intergrated circuit design, GaAs technology, device modelling and circuit simulation. Before founding AnaPico, Urs was involved in designing optical subassemblies at Avalon Photonics Zürich, Switzerland and working as a consultant for a range of high-speed applications like antenna design and UMTS system analysis. A list of his publications can be found here.

 

Dr. Jakub J. Kucera, Founder

Jakub earned his MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY, USA and his PhD from ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Jakub is an expert in low power high-speed IC design for wireless (GSM, WLAN) applications and Datacom/Telecom optical receivers with RF CMOS, GaAs MESFET, and Si, SiGe BiCMOS technologies. Before founding AnaPico, Jakub worked as a Senior R & D Engineer at the Wireless Product Division at Infineon Munich, Germany designing VCO/PLL circuits for GSM handsets. At Helix AG he was Head of System Engineering and responsible for design of optical receivers and clock recovery circuits. A list of his publications can be found here.

 

Rolf E. Luescher, Advisor

  Rolf earned a BS in Telecomunications from Abendtechnikum Zürich, Switzerland and a MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Colorado, USA in 1971. Prior to founding AnaPico, Rolf held a variety of development and managerial positions at IBM Research Lab in Switzerland, HP (now Agilent) in Colorado Springs, USA, Philips Semiconductors and CSEM Research Lab in Switzerland. His technical experiences include design of test instruments as well as bipolar and CMOS ASICs for analog and Telecom Applications. As Vice President and member of the board at Philips Semiconductor Switzerland, Rolf headed the IC-design group and was involved in all affairs of managing a large company. Furthermore, Rolf served many years as a technical expert for research projects of the European Commission. A list of publications can be found here.

 

Prof. Dr. Werner Bächtold, member of the board

  Prof. Dr. Werner Bächthold

Werner has been full Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich since December 1987. Born on October 1, 1939, he received his diploma and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1964 and 1968 respectively. From 1969 - 1987 he was with the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, working on device and circuit design and analysis with GaAs MESFETs, design of logic and memory circuits with Josephson junctions and semiconductor lasers for digital communication. He had several assignments at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Height, NY, USA. He directs the Microwave Electronics Group at the Laboratory for Electromagnetic Fields and Microwave Electronics and is engaged in the following subjects: design and characterization of gallium arsenide microwave integrated circuits, HEMT device and circuit design and technology and microwave photonics.