Dan Dobberpuhl
| Daniel W. Dobberpuhl | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 25, 1945 Streator, Illinois |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | Microprocessor design |
| Employer(s) | retired |
| Projects | MicroVAX, Alpha, StrongARM, PWRficient |
| Significant design | DEC Alpha |
| Awards | IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award (2003) |
Daniel "Dan" W. Dobberpuhl (born 1945) is an electrical engineer in the United States who led several teams of microprocessor designers.
Dobberpuhl was born in Streator, Illinois on March 25, 1945. He graduated with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1967. He worked as an engineer for the Department of Defense until 1973 when he worked for GE Integrated Circuits Lab in Syracuse, New York, making application-specific integrated circuits.
In 1976 Dobberpuhl joined Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in Hudson, Massachusetts as a semiconductor engineer and led teams designing microprocessors such as the DEC T-11 and MicroVAX. He rose to become one of five senior corporate consulting engineers, DEC's highest technical positions. As such he led the teams designing the first three generations of the DEC Alpha processor and in 1985 published a text book called "The Design and Analysis of VLSI Circuits", described as "a leading text in the field."
He founded and directed the company’s Palo Alto, California Design Center in 1993 where the StrongARM architecture was designed.
In 1998 Dobberpuhl co-founded SiByte, where as president he led the design of the SB1250 high performance MIPS system-on-a-chip processor. In 1998 EE Times named Dobberpuhl as one of the "40 forces to shape the future of the Semiconductor Industry." SiByte was funded by venture capital as well as large companies such as ATI Technologies, Cisco Systems, and Juniper Networks. After a third round of $40 million was raised in May 2000, the company was bought by Broadcom in November of that year for stock worth over $2 billion. Dobberpuhl stayed until 2003 as vice president and general manager of the Broadcom broadband processor division.
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