535 Pierce St. apt.5300
Albany, CA 94706
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Julio Leão da Silva Junior

Education

Ph.D.



M.Sc.


B.S.

Applied Sciences (Great Distinction) - defended at Kathoeliek Universiteit Leuven, executed at Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC), Belgium, Feb. 1999.
Thesis: System specification and virtual memory management of dynamic data dominated applications

Computer Science (Excellent) - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (CS department), Brazil,1990.
Thesis: Automatic synthesis of data-paths

Electrical Engineer - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (EE department), Brazil, 1986.

Experience

11/00 - ongoing

Get2Chip, San Jose, CA, USA
Consultant - Test behavioral synthesis tool Volare on a wireless design. Analyze power, area, and performance trade-off capabilities of Volare. Possibly identify how to translate behavioral specification of the design into acceptable behavioral code of Volare.

09/99 - ongoing
(details)

Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Postdoctoral Researcher - Perform research in protocol design for wireless systems, from high-level specification up to mixture of hardware and software implementation. Since Dec/99 lead the Two Chip Intercom research group. Act as liaison officer between Gigascale Research Center and BWRC.

02/99 - 08/99

Science and Technology Research Institute (IPCT), Pontifical Catholic University (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
Manager of Research Center - Coordination of the activities in the microgravity, energetic efficiency, digitalization, biomedical laboratories of the IPCT, as well as development and specification of new technologies to be used in the University, such as distance learning.

09/94 - 02/99
(details)

Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC), Leuven, Belgium
Research Assistant - Perform research in system level specification, exploration and synthesis,  dynamic memory management, and telecom network applications in the Matisse project at the HASS group in the DESICS division.

09/89 - 08/94
(details)

Science and Technology Research Institute (IPCT), Pontifical Catholic University (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
Electronic Engineer - Responsible for technical support for library automation, local networks, university network, language learning laboratory, importing activities, and any computer related support for research. 

10/90 -12/93
(details)

ARTLINE Desktop Publishing, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Consultant - Support for desktop publishing activities.

05/90 - 03/92
(details)

Foundation for development of human resources (FDRH), Porto Alegre, Brazil
Consultant - Devise and deploy an automation plan for the whole information flow at FDRH.

04/88 - 09/89
(details)

CS department, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
Research Assistant - Perform research in specification and high level synthesis of digital systems, development of tools for automatic synthesis of data-paths.

03/88 - 03/89
(details)

Electronics Department, Pontifical Catholic University (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
Assistant Teacher - Teach subject on microprocessors for third level students in Computer Science offered by the Electronics Department.

Patents

Patent filed on Virtual Memory Management - More details upon request.

Awards

First Prize Winner at the VI Student Scientific Contest of the VII  Conference of Brazilian Computer Science Society, 1987
"Conception of an IC for industrial control"

Scholarships

Doctorate scholarship - 09/98 - 01/99, Katholiek Universiteit Leuven
Doctorate scholarship  - 09/94 - 08/98, CAPES - Brazilian agency for research funding
Masters scholarship - 08/89 - 02/90, EDISA (Computer company)
Masters scholarship - 03/87 - 08/89,  CNPq - Brazilian agency for research funding

Selected Publications

J. L. da Silva Jr., et al.
"Design Methodologies for Pico Radio Networks", Special Session about Pico Radio
Design Automation and Test Coneference, Munich, Germany, March 13-16, 2001.

J. Rabaey, J. Ammer, J. L. da Silva Jr., D. Patel, S. Roundy,
"PicoRadio Supports ad-hoc Ultra Low Power Wireless Networking",
Special Issue on Wireless, IEEE Computer, July 2000.

D. Verkest, J. L. da Silva Jr., C. Ykman, K. Croes, M. Miranda, S. Wuytack, G. de Jong, F. Catthoor, H. De Man,
"Matisse: A system-on-chip design methodology emphasizing dynamic memory management"
Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, July 1999.

S. Wuytack, J. L. da Silva Jr., F. Catthoor, G. de Jong, C. Ykman,
"Memory Management for Embedded Network Applications"
IEEE Transactions on CAD, May 1999.

J. L. da Silva Jr., C. Ykman, G. de Jong, F. Catthoor, B. Lin, H. De Man,
"System Specification for Dynamic Data-dominated Applications"
SBmicro Journal of Solid State Devices and Circuits, Jan. 1999.

J. L. da Silva Jr., M. Sgroi, F. De Bernardinis, Suet Fei Li, A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, J. Rabaey,
"Wireless Protocols Design: Challenges and Opportunities",
International Co-design Workshop (CODES), San Diego, US, May 3-5, 2000.

J. L. da Silva Jr., F. Catthoor, D. Verkest and H. De Man,
"Power exploration for dynamic data types through virtual memory management refinement"
International Symposium on Low Power Electronic Devices (ISLPED), Monterey, CA, USA, August 10-12, 1998.

J. L. da Silva Jr., C. Ykman, M. Miranda, K. Croes, S. Wuytack, G. de Jong, F. Catthoor, D. Verkest, P. Six and H. De Man,
"Efficient System Exploration and Synthesis of Applications with Dynamic Data Storage and Intensive Data Transfer"
Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, USA, June, 1998.

J. L. Silva Jr. et al. 
"Operation scheduling and allocation in high level synthesis" (in Portuguese), 
X Conference of Brazilian Computer Science Society, Vitória, Brazil, 1990.

J. L. Silva Jr. et al.
"Variable optimization in automatic synthesis of data-paths" (in Portuguese),
IV Brazilian Conference on Microelectronics, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1989.

J. L. Silva Jr. et al.
"Conception of an IC for industrial control" (in Portuguese),
VI Conference of Brazilian Computer Science Society, Salvador, Brazil, 1987.

Extra Information

Full Publication List, Conference Participation, Seminars and Posters, Courses and Traineeship.

Additional Skills

Project Management, organizing and communication skills, team player. 
Computer Related: NT, Unix, UML, C, C++, Esterel, HDLs, VCC, CoWare, Synopsys,  Assembler.
Fluent in English and Portuguese, Good understanding of French and Spanish, Read Dutch.

Other Interests

Soccer, ski, travel, barbecue ...