Biographical sketches of authors

Joseph M. Hoke   IBM Server Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (jmhoke@us.ibm.com). Mr. Hoke is an Advisory Engineer in the eServer I/O Hardware Development group. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1987 and continued his studies under a university fellowship, receiving an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University in 1989. He joined IBM at Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1989 and has held various technical positions in the eServer I/O area. Mr. Hoke holds several patents used in the IBM ESCON and Sysplex products and has received two IBM Invention Achievement Awards. He has received IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards for his work on ESCON, on the G5 server, and for his contributions to the IBM eServer zSeries.

Paul W. Bond   IBM Server Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (pwbond@us.ibm.com). Mr. Bond is an Advisory Engineer in the eServer I/O Hardware Development group. He received a B.S. degree in 1972 and an M.E. degree in 1973, both in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He joined IBM in Kingston, New York, in 1973 and is currently involved with the development of high-speed CMOS serial links.

Robert R. Livolsi   IBM Server Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (livolsi@us.ibm.com). Mr. Livolsi is a Senior Engineer at IBM. In 1978, he received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Polytechnic Institute of New York. In 1978, he joined the Magnetic Recording Group at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Whippany, New Jersey, where he worked on signal processing for imbedded servo and phase-locked loops for high-capacity tape drives. In 1984 he joined IBM at Kingston, New York, where he worked on the design of high-speed CMOS I/O circuits. He designed and patented the differential drivers and receivers used in the current STI design. Mr. Livolsi coauthored a paper on STI in the proceedings of the IEEE workshop on signal propagation on interconnects. He also holds an IBM second-level patent plateau award as well as IBM Outstanding Achievement and Innovation Awards.

Tin-chee (T. C.) Lo   IBM Server Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (tclo@us.ibm.com). Mr. Lo received an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining IBM, he worked for American Micro-System and Fairchild Semiconductor, both in northern California. Mr. Lo joined IBM at East Fishkill, New York, in 1977 to work on DRAM development projects. He became a Senior Engineer in 1984 and moved to IBM Poughkeepsie in 1985 to work on the design of the IBM S/390. Mr. Lo has worked in different technical areas including bipolar and MOS device modeling, n-MOS and CMOS circuit design, static and dynamic memories, ABIST, high-speed interconnects and signal propagation, and various logic designs for high-end servers. His current interests are in Level-2 cache design in the system-on-a-chip environment. Mr. Lo holds 16 U.S. patents, with another nine patents pending; he has published numerous papers and invention disclosures in several areas in the fields of microelectronics and logic design. He has received many technical awards during his career in IBM.

Frank S. Pidala   IBM Server Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (pidala@us.ibm.com). Mr. Pidala is a Staff Programmer Analyst in the eServer I/O Hardware Development group. He joined IBM in East Fishkill, New York, in 1969. He is currently responsible for the physical design and release of self-timed interface (STI) macros. Mr. Pidala has received various IBM recognition and informal awards, including an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for his work on the G5 server.

Gary Steinbrueck   IBM Server Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (steinbru@vnet.ibm.com). Mr. Steinbrueck is a Senior Engineer in the eServer I/O Hardware Development group. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla in 1968. He joined IBM at East Fishkill, New York, and has held a wide variety of technical positions including thermal engineering; advanced development of power devices, CMOS and bipolar memories, microprocessors, and packaging; and product development of bipolar and CMOS logic circuits. Mr. Steinbrueck is currently responsible for circuit design for high-performance communication links for S/390, power parallel systems, and OEM products. He has received many technical awards, including IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards for his contributions to the S/390 G3 and G5 servers.