Ray Simar

• TI Fellow
• Advanced Architecture Development Manager, Digital Signal Processing
• Semiconductor Group

Ray Simar is currently responsible for enhancing TI's DSP solutions leadership position by developing advanced architectures for diverse applications. In 1997, Simar was elected to TI Fellow in recognition of his pioneering work
on DSP technology.

He is the chief architect and program manager of the TMS320C6x, the world's most powerful generation of DSPs, which was announced in February 1997. The 'C6x is based on VelociTI^tm, an advanced very-long-instruction-word (VLIW) architecture, to achieve very high performance at low cost.

Simar joined TI in 1984. Prior to the 'C6x, he was the chief architect and program manager for the floating-point TMS320C3x and TMS320C4x DSP devices.

Simar received his bachelor of science degree at Texas A&M University and master of science degree in electrical engineering from Rice University. Simar holds more than 10 patents in DSP technology.

VelociTI is a trademark of Texas Instruments Incorporated.