AimValley
Dirk Molenberg is a seasoned engineer with extensive experience in ASIC and FPGA design and testing. Molenberg has held the position of Senior ASIC/FPGA Test Engineer at AimValley since May 2003. Prior to this role, Molenberg worked as an ASIC/FPGA Designer at Bell Labs Lucent Technologies from August 1996 to 2003 and as an ASIC Designer at AT&T from 1990 to 1996. Molenberg started the career as a PCB/ASIC Designer at AT&T and Philips Telecommunication from 1988 to 1990. Educational qualifications include a degree from HTS Hilversum (1983-1987), MTS Sneek (1979-1983), and MAVO Emmeloord (1975-1979).
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AimValley
AimValley was formed in 2003 out of the Netherlands-based product development unit of the former Lucent. It engages with leading networking equipment companies to tackle product development projects. Engineers deliver end to end designs including feasibility studies, hardware designs, embedded software development, mechanical packaging, systems compliance testing, and certifications including the facilitation of handover to factory production. Capabilities include FPGA, ASIC development, ASIC to FPGA adaptation, high-speed optical/electronic designs, and miniaturization including SFP based designs. A wide range of technologies is addressed, such as high speed optical transport network (up to 400 Gigabit per second), high-speed multi-rate Ethernet designs (incl. core, edge and enterprise routing), integrated packet over optical, ingestion and transport of legacy technologies (Sonet/SDH, T1/E1, DS3), clock and timing expertise such as IEEE 1588, Sync-E, and complex clock recovery and regeneration, wireless protocols and signal handling including CPRI, OBSAI and much more. AimValley offers AimOS, a proven and hardened Ethernet operating system that is highly reliable and offers efficient high performance. Thanks to our deep knowledge of telecom networking expertise coupled with a DNA of designing products with industry compliance and thermal management built-in, AimValley distinguishes itself by providing superior quality designs. Products are developed from the ground up to meet CE, UL, FCC and other international standards, including NEBS-3.