Lance Pickup

Lance Pickup is the Design Center Manager at the ASIC North design center in Raleigh, North Carolina. Pickup has been with ASIC North since 2013 and currently manages a digital design and verification team.

Prior to joining ASIC North, Pickup had 25 years of experience at IBM in various technical roles including the Electronic Design Automation group where he worked on simulation and timing tools, bootstrapping the IBM ASIC business unit, developing the first IP re-use methodology, and project managing reference flow and IP development for the IBM Foundry business unit.

Pickup earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont. He is an IEEE Senior member.