SwissChip CEO

Laszlo Arato graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1990 and spent the next 6 years on board-level design for a Swiss telecommunication company. After successful embedded processor applications, he was instrumental in designing and selling a fully digital communication system for air traffic controllers.

In 1996 he was hired by an AT&T / Lucent spin-off by the name of GlobeSpan Inc, where he got into ASIC design and soon advanced to project lead. He developed a custom µP for DSL framing which was so flexible that it could be adapted to all

applicable communication standards and is still in production today and re-used
on new DSL chip designs. As a side result he received 5 US patents on this creation.

At Qualcomm Inc. in San Diego he moved into the mobile phone domain, real-time
cryptology and 65 nm ASIC technology. As the verification lead for an 89 million
transistor chip he was also responsible for the creation of production test vectors
and supporting chip qualification on the ATE test floor.

Laszlo Arato is currently part time working as research associate, FPGA specialist
and instructor for digital signal processing at the University of Applied Sciences in
Northwestern Switzerland.

He likes swimming and hiking, is an instrument rated private pilot, scuba rescue diver,
photographer, guitar player, retired Swiss military officer and a member of Mensa.

laszlo.arato@swisschip.com