Latham Joins ECE Department Faculty

Dr. Paul W. Latham will join the ECE Department in September as a part time faculty member. Dr. Latham will also retain his position as President and CEO of Orion Design Technologies in Lee, NH. Orion Design Technologies performs consulting, design, and marketing of CMOS ICs for the disc drive industry and motor control circuits. Dr. Latham brings to the Department sixteen years of industrial experience in analog and digital circuit design, disc drive electronics, bipolar, BiMOS, and CMOS integrated circuit design, computer simulation, control system design, digital signal processing, programming, and technical management.

Dr. Latham received the BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota. He subsequently held positions in control systems and electronic design at a variety of companies including Microcomputer Systems Inc., Magnetic Peripherals Inc., Data General Corporation, and Allegro MicroSystems Inc. In 1992, while still a full time employee of Allegro MicroSystems, he received the Ph.D. degree in engineering from UNH. In 1995 he left Allegro to found Orion Design Technologies. Dr. Latham holds twelve patents in the general area of IC design. He is a licensed professional engineer in the state of New Hampshire.

At UNH Dr. Latham will be primarily responsible for teaching senior and graduate level courses in analog VLSI design, and for supervising related senior projects and graduate student theses. In this regard he will work closely with Professor Andrzej Rucinski, founder of the ECE Department’s Design Automation Laboratory(DAL), and Frank Hludik, an instructor in the ECE Department and managing engineer of the DAL. Dr. Latham’s extensive expertise and industrial experience in analog VLSI design will add a valuable new dimension to our undergraduate and graduate programs in a technical area which is generally high in demand but short in the supply of experienced personnel.