IBM Skip to main content
  Home     Products & services     Support & downloads     My account  
  Select a country  
Journals Home  
  Systems Journal  
Journal of Research
and Development
  ·  Current Issue  
  ·  Recent Issues  
  ·  Papers in Progress  
  ·  Search/Index  
  ·  Orders  
  ·  Description  
  ·  Patents  
  ·  Recent publications  
  ·  Author's Guide  
  Staff  
  Contact Us  
IBM Journal of Research and Development  
Volume 41, Numbers 4/5, 1999
IBM S/390 G3 and G4
 Table of contents: arrowHTML arrowASCII   This article: arrowHTML arrowASCII
arrowCopyright info
   

CMOS floating-point unit for the S/390 Parallel Enterprise Server G4 - Author bios

by E. M. Schwarz, L. Sigal, and T. J. McPherson.

Author bios

Biographical sketches of authors

Eric M. Schwarz IBM System/390 Division, 522 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (ESCHWARZ at PK705VMA, schwarz@vnet.ibm.com). Dr. Schwarz received a B.S. degree in engineering science from The Pennsylvania State University in 1983, an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Ohio University in 1984, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1993. He joined IBM in 1984 in Endicott, New York, and in 1993 transferred to Poughkeepsie. Dr. Schwarz is an Advisory Engineer and was FPU Logic Technical Leader for the S/390 Parallel Enterprise Server G4 processor. Currently, he is Execution Unit (FPU and FXU) Logic Technical Leader for follow-on processors. His research interests are in computer arithmetic and computer architecture. He is the author of seven filed patents, ten pending patents, and several journal articles and conference proceedings.

Leon Sigal IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (LJS at YKTVMV, ljs@vnet.ibm.com). Mr. Sigal received a B.S. in biomedical engineering in 1985 from the University of Iowa and an M.S. in electrical engineering in 1986 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He worked at Hewlett-Packard's microprocessor development laboratory between 1986 and 1992. Mr. Sigal joined IBM in 1992 and has been leading the CMOS S/390 microprocessor circuit design interdivisional effort.

Thomas J. McPherson IBM System/390 Division, 522 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (MCPHERSO at PK705VMA, tmcpherson@vnet.ibm.com). Mr. McPherson is a Staff Engineer in S/390 microprocessor development. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering fromRutgers University in 1990 and an M.S. degree in computer engineering from Syracuse University in 1992. Mr. McPherson joined IBM in 1990 and has worked on S/390 microprocessors and CMOS ASIC designs.