Richard A. Blanchard, Ph.D., Consultant
Dr. Blanchard has specialized in semiconductor technology since his undergraduate days at MIT. After completing his Masters degree at MIT he moved to Silicon Valley and began his professional career at Fairchild R&D in 1970. He worked on early bipolar and silicon gate MOS technology. After leaving Fairchild in 1974 he was a founder of two companies, Supertex, a manufacture of IC’s and power MOSFET’s and Cognition, a manufacturer of silicon pressure transducers. He obtained his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1982. After graduation Dr. Blanchard joined Siliconix, later becoming VP of Engineering. While at Siliconix he worked on JFET’s, DMOS transistors, and bipolar & CMOS integrated circuits. He joined IXYS Corporation as VP in 1987 where he setup an IC design group and coordinated foundry services.

In 1991 he became a consultant in the semiconductor industry working with a wide range of clients on process, device and circuit issues. He works with clients to identify and qualify wafer foundries and product transfers to these foundries. In addition to being an author of the Semiconductor Technology Handbook, Dr. Blanchard has coauthored or contributed to five other books on semiconductor and component technology. He has authored more than 25 technical articles,

Larry J. Lopp, Consultant
Mr. Lopp received his BSEE degree from the University of Minnesota in 1964. He joined Hewlett Packard and after two years in the instrument development laboratory he formed and led the engineering team that developed Bipolar analog integrated circuits and high precision thin film resistor including the processes and manufacturing facilities required for these products. In 1970 after two years development, his team introduced the first commercial NMOS memory products.

Beginning in 1972, after a move to Hewlett Packard’s fledging computer operation in Silicon Valley, Mr. Lopp created and managed the facility that developed and manufactured a complete microcomputer family of high performance CMOSSOS digital integrated circuits process that was developed in parallel.

Over his career, Mr. Lopp has had detailed technical involvement in analog and digital IC design, design tool development, semiconductor process development, and the development of semiconductor manufacturing facilities.

In 1980 Mr. Lopp became a consultant in the industry and an associate of Technology Associates where he was a coauthor of the Semiconductor Technology Handbook and instructor of the Semiconductor Technology Course. He has taught this course continuously for more than 20 years. Mr. Lopp is a Senior Member of the IEEE.