Mike Williams Biography
Mike is the founder, President and Principal Consultant of ASA Corporation
- an engineering consultation firm specializing in the development and
application of technologies for high-precision waveform timing and
measurement. He has provided technical consultation to computer
systems, semiconductor, test-equipment and other organizations engaged
in high-speed digital electronics/measurement throughout the United
States, Canada, Europe and Asia/Pacific.
The system
scales have ranged from Pentium-servers and workstations through
main-frame and multiple-processor supercomputers, as well as precision
parametric test equipment. Past work has included design and design
verification of timing schemes, specification and trouble shooting of
various timing-oriented design & measurement processes, and several
product specification & market-targeting projects for manufacturers
of clocking devices.
He has also been heavily involved in the development of various measurement technologies, including M1™ OT
-- a tool to facilitate the ultra-precise cycle-cycle measurement and
analysis of waveform stability, and has been integrating this into
custom analysis systems. Throughout his career, Mike has published many
papers and articles relating to high-speed clocks, timing, jitter
measurement and the M1™ system.
Mike
founded Amherst Systems Associates in 1985. He has served on the
engineering faculties of The University of Massachusetts at Amherst and
National Technological University. He was a member of the cpu design
team for Digital Equipment Corporation’s VAX8800, and in an earlier
position with DEC, designed high-speed production test instrumentation.
He has been involved in high-speed timing/synchronization work since
1979 through consultation, research projects, teaching and his work at
DEC.
His
research interests lie within the arena of timing-environment design
for high-speed digital systems, including adaptive
tolerance-management, metrology as it pertains to high-precision
time-interval measurement, stochastic prediction of long-term waveform
stability from measurement data and clock-distribution architectures
for large computers. A former member of numerous societies of the IEEE
and the ACM, he now belongs to the Antiquarian Horological Society and
the Society of Explosives Engineers.
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