02-06 2020 15:17
wrote:
I was sorry to hear of Ray’s death.
I last met him over thirty years ago in Brussels during the spring of 1991 while attending my last EU Project Meeting before leaving Plessey. There was also an EU Technical Exhibition underway and Ray was trying to gain interest and support among the attendees for Phoenix VLSI.
I first met him when I started at Caswell in 1975, given the job of developing fully decoded MNOS gate arrays on Silicon on Sapphire: MNOS was his technology, SOS my contribution. It worked. At that time Ray was the MOS Team Leader and Ken Perkins the Bipolar. Ray’s management era was characterised by opportunities to work on different silicon IC technologies, establish chip design rules and work with designers, try out new ideas for fabrication techniques and to be involved in the wider microelectronics community through collaborative projects and conferences.
I always enjoyed working with him whether it was developing technology or being involved with collaborative projects. I found him sociable, supportive, had a good sense of humour, was full of ideas and business schemes and possessed a formidable intellect.
I worked with him during the first half of my career, around sixteen years, but he was the most interesting and intellectually stimulating boss I have ever had.
02-06 2020 15:17
wrote:
I was sorry to hear of Ray’s death.
I last met him over thirty years ago in Brussels during the spring of 1991 while attending my last EU Project Meeting before leaving Plessey. There was also an EU Technical Exhibition underway and Ray was trying to gain interest and support among the attendees for Phoenix VLSI.
I first met him when I started at Caswell in 1975, given the job of developing fully decoded MNOS gate arrays on Silicon on Sapphire: MNOS was his technology, SOS my contribution. It worked. At that time Ray was the MOS Team Leader and Ken Perkins the Bipolar. Ray’s management era was characterised by opportunities to work on different silicon IC technologies, establish chip design rules and work with designers, try out new ideas for fabrication techniques and to be involved in the wider microelectronics community through collaborative projects and conferences.
I always enjoyed working with him whether it was developing technology or being involved with collaborative projects. I found him sociable, supportive, had a good sense of humour, was full of ideas and business schemes and possessed a formidable intellect.
I worked with him during the first half of my career, around sixteen years, but he was the most interesting and intellectually stimulating boss I have ever had.
