James D. Y. Collier
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James Collier FREng FRS |
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James Collier at the Royal Society admissions day in London for new fellows in 2016
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| Born | December 1958 (age 58) |
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| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Notable awards | MacRobert Award |
James Digby Yarlet Collier (born December 1958)FRSFREng is a microelectronics engineer and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Neul Limited. Previously, he held several technical and executive positions at Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR), UbiNetics, Cambridge Consultants and Schlumberger
Collier was educated at the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics.
Collier has been active in and at the forefront of microelectronics system design for over 20 years, during which time the feature sizes of devices have fallen 100-fold from 2 micrometres to 20 nanometres. This discipline is a cross-over between detailed engineering and applied physics as engineering constraints and imperfections interact with the desired function, be it measurement or communications.
Collier co-founded CSR as a corporate spin-off from Cambridge Consultants Limited with a group of eight other people including Glenn Collinson, Phil O'Donovan, Jonathan Kimmitt, Carl Orsborn, Ian Sabberton, Justin Penfold, Robert Young and Graham Pink. He served as CTO of CSR which was acquired by Qualcomm in 2015. Using short-range wireless technology, CSR became a major supplier of integrated circuit designs for Bluetooth, GPS and Wi-Fi. As a fabless manufacturing company, CSR created the first production ready, single chip, CMOS implementation of the Bluetooth standard by putting a radio transmitter, microprocessor and baseband on a single integrated circuit. The techniques developed are now commonplace and included in many consumer wireless devices.
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