Dave Garrett

Dave Garrett, Ph.D. is Syntiant Corp.'s senior vice president of engineering. He is a technical expert in semiconductor design, focusing on digital signal processing, VLSI architecture, and chip design flows. Prior to Syntiant, he held the role of associate technical director at the Broadcom office of the CTO and is recognized as a Distinguished Engineer within the company. He was responsible for the transmit beamforming (TxBF) architectures in both the client and router side of Broadcom's 802.11ac/ax chipsets, shipping in more than a billion devices. He is an IEEE Fellow, holds 95 granted US patents, and is the previous General Chair of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED).

Previously, Dr. Garrett was at Bell Labs Wireless Research Division and later served as Director of Engineering, R&D Systems, at Beceem Communications, which was later acquired by Broadcom. Dr. Garrett received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.