Dennis Fischette designs mixed-signal circuits at Advanced Micro Devices in Sunnyvale, CA. 
His technical interests include PLL and DLL design, clock-and-data recovery, circuit analysis 
software, and high-speed IO circuits. He is a member of the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer program 
as well as the CICC Technical Program Committee. He was a member of the ISSCC Technical Program 
Committee from 2001-2006.

He graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, with Physics BSc in 1986. Before seeking fame 
and fortune in Silicon Valley, he pursued graduate studies in the History of Science at the 
University of California, Berkeley. 

Dennis is known to "toot his own horn" all over the SF Bay Area as a trombonist with 
several jazz ensembles. He recently toured China and Vietnam with the SFBayJazz big band.