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Mark McDermott is currently a Professor of Practice (Emeritus) in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches courses in embedded system design. He received a BSEE from the University of New Mexico, a MSE and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Mark is a registered professional engineer and a member of the IEEE, ACM and TSPE. He has 21 patents and a number of publications in the areas of ICS design, engineering education and engineering management.

Mark has over 50 years of industry experience in product development of silicon systems. This includes: Senior Director at Apple, Inc., VP/GM at Intrinsity, Inc., VP of Engineering at Coherent Logix, CEO of DynaFlow Computing, Inc., VP Engineering at Somerset Embedded Technologies, Inc., VP Engineering at VisionFlow, Inc., General Manager and Director of the Texas Development Center for Intel Corporation, Director of the PowerPC Somerset Design Center and Director of the Austin Design Center for Cyrix, Inc. Mark co-founded DynaFlow Computing, The Learning Labs, Somerset Embedded Technologies, Inc., VisionFlow, Inc., Logical Silicon Solutions, Inc., Accelerated Solutions Corp., MonoCom Systems, Inc. and Siomyx, Inc.

A. Manickam, K. Johnson, R. Singh, N. Wood, E. Ku, A. Cuppoletti, M. McDermott, A. Hassibi; "Multiplex PCR CMOS Biochip for Detection of Upper Respiratory Pathogens including SARS-CoV-2," 2021 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, June 2021

A. Sayal, P. Ajay, M. W. McDermott, S. V. Sreenivasan and J. P. Kulkarni, "M2A2: Microscale Modular Assembled ASICs for High-Mix, Low-Volume, Heterogeneously Integrated Designs," in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, doi: 10.1109/TCAD.2020.2982621.

A. Manickam, K. You, N. Wood, L. Pei, Y. Liu, R. Singh, N. Gamini, M. McDermott, D. Shahrjerdi, R. Kuimelis, A. Hassibi, "A CMOS Electrochemical Biochip With 32x32 Three-Electrode Voltammetry Pixels," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Nov 2019

J. Kulkarni, A. Sayal, P. Ajay, M. McDermott and S.V. Sreenivasan, "A Design Methodology for High-Mix, Low-Volume Heterogeneously Integrated ASICs," GOMAC Tech, 2019

A. Hassibi, A. Manickam1, R. Singh, S. Bolouk, R. Sinha, K. Jirage, M. McDermott, et al., "Multiplexed identification, quantification and genotyping of infectious agents using a semiconductor biochip", Nature Biotechnology, Jul 2018

A. Manickam, R. Singh, M. McDermott, et al., "A Fully Integrated CMOS Fluorescence Biochip for DNA and RNA Testing,", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 52, no. 11, pp. 2857-2870, Nov. 2017.

A. Hassibi, R. Singh, A. Manickam, R. Sinha, B. Kuimelis, S. Bolouki, P. Naraghi-Arani, K. Johnson, M. McDermott, et al, "Fully Integrated CMOS Fluorescence Biochip for Multiplex Polymerase Chain-Reaction (PCR) Processes", Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 2017

M. McDermott, "Cognitive Sensor Platform", International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 520-531, 2014

M. McDermott, "Queued-Stack Dataflow Processing Element for a Cognitive Sensor Platform", International Journal of Reconfigurable and Embedded Systems (IJRES), Vol. 1, No 3, pp. 75-86, 2012

A. Manickam, A. Chevalier, M. McDermott, A.D. Ellington, A. Hassibi, "A CMOS electrochemical impedance spectroscopy biosensor array for label-free biomolecular detection", Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 2010

A. Manickam, A. Chevalier, M. McDermott, A.D. Ellington, A. Hassibi, "A CMOS electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) biosensor array", Biomedical Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on, pp. 379-390, 2010

M. Ravel, M. Chang, M. McDermott, M. Morrow, N. Teslic, M. Katona, J. Bapat, "A cross-curriculum open design platform approach to electronic and computing systems education", Intl. Conf. on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE 2009), pp. 69-72, 2009

M. McDermott, J. Abraham, and M. Ravel, "Balancing virtual and physical prototyping across a multi-course VLSI/Embedded-Systems/SOC design curriculum", In Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, 2009

S. Abdulla, H. Nam, M. McDermott, and J. Abraham, "A High Throughput FFT Processor with no Multipliers'', Proc. IEEE Int. Conference Computer Design (ICCD), Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, pp. 485-490, Oct. 2009

J. Friesenhahn, L. John, and M. McDermott, "Power Analysis of a Path-Based Perceptron Branch Predictor", Austin Conference on Integrated Systems and Circuits (ACISC), May 2008.

M. Ravel and M. McDermott, "An Electronic System Design Platform for SYSTEMatic Learning in ECE and ICT Curriculum", 2007 Intl. Conf. on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE 2007), pp. 145-146, 2007

M. McDermott, "Engineering Management Practices", 2nd International Workshop on Engineering Management for Applied Technology (EMAT'01), 2001

R. Skruhak, M. McDermott, C. Wiseman, M. Taborn, J. Vaglica, E. Carter, "Modular design of a high performance 32-bit microcontroller", Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, Proceedings of the IEEE", 1989, pp. 23.8/1 - 23.8/4, May 1989

W. Harwood, M. McDermott, "Testability features of the MC68332 modular microcontroller", Proceedings of International Test Conference (1989) pp. 615-623, 1989

74 disclosures, 21 issued in the area of integrated circuit design, microprocessor architecture, DFT, and hardware acceleration:

11,600,525 Nanoscale-aligned three-dimensional stacked integrated circuit
11,469,131 Heterogeneous integration of components onto compact devices using Moire based metrology

5,926,053 Selectable clock generation mode

5,860,105 NDIRTY cache line look-ahead

5,815,693 Processor having a frequency modulated core clock based on the criticality of program activity

5,815,692 Distributed clock generator

5,740,410 Static clock generator

5,734,881 Detecting short branches in a prefetch buffer using target location information in a branch target cache

5,734,844 Bidirectional single-line handshake with both devices driving the line in the same state for hand-off

5,592,107 Configurable NAND/NOR element

5,568,067 Configurable XNOR/XOR element

5,448,744 Integrated circuit microprocessor with programmable chip select logic

5,402,458 Mechanism to accelerate counter testing without loss of fault coverage

5,361,392 Digital computing system with low power mode and special bus cycle

5,233,314 Integrated charge-pump phase-locked loop circuit

5,157,781 Data processor test architecture

5,138,709 Spurious interrupt monitor

5,029,272 Input/output circuit with programmable input sensing time

4,959,561 MOS output buffer with reduced supply line disturbance

4,931,748 Integrated circuit with clock generator

4,366,560 Power down detector

Active Patent Applications

Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan, Paras Ajay, Aseem Sayal, Mark McDermott, Jaydeep Kulkarni, "Nanofabrication and Design Techniques for 3D ICs and Configurable ASICs", filed, USPTO PCT/US 2023/0124676

Arjang Hassibi, Mark McDermott, Edmond Ku, "Methods and devices for fluorescence-based analyte detection", filed, USPTO,PCT/US20250369883A1