Feng Pan received his BS degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He is a Stanford Certified Program Manager (SCPM), and is currently working as a senior analog design manager at SanDisk. Mr. Pan is coauthor of Charge Pump Circuit Design, and has 45 granted patents related to power management, LDO, charge pump architectures, charge pump regulations and applications, ADC design, op-amp designs, and flash memory designs.
Tapan Samaddar (Santa Clara, CA): After completing his BSEE, Tapan started working for ST Microelectronics, the European semiconductor conglomerate, in their Memory R&D division at Grenoble, France, where he contributed to ST's high speed cache memory design efforts. After working for ST, Tapan joined Atmel Corporation in San Jose, California, where he contributed in designing their high density NOR flash memory for a leading mobile phone customer. After Atmel, Tapan joined as the fifth employee of T-RAM Inc. in San Jose, a startup company conceived at Stanford University striving to design high speed SRAM compatible memory chips. After contributing for more than three years at T-RAM, Inc.,… he joined SanDisk Corporation and is now leading SanDisk's high voltage circuit designs. He holds several U.S. patents. Feng Pan (Santa Clara, CA): Feng started working for AMD in it's nonvolatile memory division where he contributed to AMD's NOR Flash memory chip designs. After working for AMD, Feng joined SanDisk Corporation in the design and development of its new NAND Flash memory design venture. Feng was instrumental in defining the architecture and leading the design of charge pumps and related high voltage ciruits which have since become mainstream implementation in almost all SanDisk products. Feng has more than ten years of experience in semiconductor chip design, particularly in high voltage circuits. He holds several U.S. patents. SanDisk is the world's largest producer of flash memory chips being used in digital cameras, mp3 players, USB flash drives and many other products requiring nonvolatile storage.