Enabling 400G Networking with 56G Ethernet PHY IP

Rita Horner
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
Synopsys, Inc.

Biography :

Rita Horner is a Senior Technical Marketing Manager at Synopsys, with more than 25 years of experience in the area of mixed signal circuit design, ESD design, test and packaging of high speed integrated circuits for consumer, computing, and high end networking products, in a broad range of semiconductor process technologies. As a technical, product and strategic manager, she has worked on defining and managing ASSP, ASIC and Fiber Optic product lines, and has been recently focusing on High Speed Serial Interconnect IPs. She participated and presented at multiple technical conferences, consortiums, and standards bodies including ANSI T11, IEEE 802.3, OIF, PCI-SIG and SFF Multi Souring Agreements. She has previous experience with Avago Technologies, Exar, Agilent Technologies, Hewlett-Packard and Intel. She holds an MSEE from the University of Tennessee, has a patent in IC packaging and a number of technical publications.