About Us
Our Story
After years of developing industry leading PLL and Oscillator products for the likes of National Semiconductor and Fox Electronics, we founded Glacier Microelectronics to provide high performance PLL products to the whole timing industry.
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There are a number of programmable oscillator products on the market. In each case, these products are captive by the manufacturer. Those PLLs create a need for the oscillator manufacturers without the expertise to develop their own. Glacier’s products are available to the whole of the timing market.
Rather than simply develop solely for the best available noise performance, we supply products that are much lower power with smaller die size than the other programmable products but with performance that meets the needs of over 90% of the market.
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The result, we have delivered over 30 million units and counting.
Management Team
Glacier Microelectronics’ management team is made up of veterans of the RFIC industry with a history of delivering leading edge RFICs in high volume.
Paul McCambridge – CEO, President
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Mr. McCambridge has 40 years of experience in the RF industry selling,managing and designing RF systems for communications and consumer products. He is responsible for the strategy, business development and sales at Glacier. He developed extensive RF communication systems in the 80’s cell phone IC’s in the 90’s and Bluetooth systems in the 00’s. In product marketing at Xindium, Zeevo, Tropian and VLSI Technology, Mr. McCambridge was responsible for product strategy and product management for GSM, CDMA, UWB and Bluetooth products. He holds a BSEE, MSEE, and MBA from Santa Clara University.
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Thomas Luich – VP, Engineering
Mr. Luich has over 40 years of experience developing RF, mixed signal and memory devices. At Glacier, he is responsible for all aspects of Glacier’s product development from technical definition through implementation and ultimately qualification. Mr. Luich’s broad experience in RFIC development started with early programmable memory devices at Harris and Fairchild, moving to the industry’s 1st integrated PLL products at National Semiconductor. At Cygnus Designs he specialized in One-Time-Programmable (OTP) memory development and integrated PLL development. Mr. Luich holds 25 patents. He received his BSEE from the University of California, Davis.
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Dave Byrd – Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Byrd has over 35 years of RF, mixed signal and memory development experience at National Semiconductor, Silicon Wave and Cygnus Designs. Beginning at National Semiconductor, Mr Byrd was a developer on the industries 1st integrated PLL products as well as primarily responsible for the design of numerous RF transceivers including ultra low power keyless entry systems. At Glacier, Mr. Byrd is responsible for technology direction and new product architecture development as well as all system level programmer products. Mr. Byrd is a holder of 8 patents. He holds a BSEE from Oregon State University.
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Alan Chinn – VP, Operations
Mr. Chinn has over 40 years of experience in operations management of RF and mixed signal integrated circuits, managing and developing RFIC manufacturing and test systems for communications and consumer products. Mr. Chinn brings to Glacier his wealth of experience in implementing and managing wafer fabrication, packaging and test development. He developed extensive synthesizer RFIC manufacturing systems at National Semiconductor, Tropian, Theta Microelectronics and Aspendos Communications. He holds a BSEE from California Polytechnic State University. Mr. Chinn has been previously responsible for shipping over 1B synthesizer products.
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Board of Directors
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Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips recently served as Senior Vice-President, Business Development and General Counsel at JDS Uniphase Corporation. He joined then client Uniphase Corporation in 1998 to assist Uniphase in its move to a leadership position in the fiber optic component and module market. He is now a senior partner in the law firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP specializing in corporate law and the representation of emerging and high technology businesses in all phases of their development.
Mr. Phillips combines his experience of over 20 years as a commercial lawyer in Silicon Valley with the perspective gained from his five years at JDS Uniphase, where he was responsible for its entire legal department and the negotiation and successful completion of over 30 mergers, acquisitions and other strategic relationships for an aggregate consideration well in excess of $50 billion. Mr. Phillips holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Alfred J. Stein
Mr. Stein is currently a Consultant and Advisor to startup companies in the high technology industry. He previously served at VLSI Technology, Inc. as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer from 1982 until its acquisition by Philips Electronics in 1999. During his tenure, VLSI grew from a venture capital funded start-up to a publicly traded company with revenues in excess of $600 million and over 2,200 employees in more than 25 locations around the world. For more than 45 years, Mr. Stein has played a significant role in the high tech industry, including senior management assignments at both Texas Instruments and Motorola. Mr. Stein was with Texas Instruments for 18 years from 1958 through 1976; his last position was Vice President and General Manager for the Electronics Devices Division. Mr. Stein was with Motorola for five years where he was Vice President and Assistant General Manager of Motorola's Semiconductor Sector. He joined VLSI Technology from Arrow Electronics where he had been that company’s Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Stein is on the Board of Directors of two publicly traded companies, ESS Technology and Simtek Corporation. He also has served on the board of directors at Applied Materials, Radio Shack Corporation and was Chairman of the Board for the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). He was on the Board of Trustees for St. Mary’s University of Texas .
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