Franz Dugand

I am in charge of Operational and Strategic Marketing as well as Business Development of RivieraWaves Bluetooth® and WLAN products.

Thanks to its unique and proven portfolio of Bluetooth and WLAN Intellectual Property (IP), RivieraWaves is a reference in the wireless field. Our highly skilled team composed of seasoned, dedicated and focused engineers makes us the ideal partner for all wireless solutions in the medical, sports & fitness, watch, entertainment, industrial and other wireless sensor applications.

We provide semiconductor companies with hardware, software and radio IP for integration into their ASIC. We complement our IP offering with high quality SOC design services and specific application development services. We also provide system companies with differentiated software solutions that increase the value of their end products.

Product Marketing Manager for Bluetooth IP
In charge of Business plans, Market Requirement Document, Statement of Work, product definition, architecture and development strategy, quotation, contract preparation.
Pre-sales, customer support.
Worked on Bluetooth, Bluetooth high speed (BT 3.0+HS), Bluetooth low energy.
I acquired significant expertize of the wireless connectivity market in general.

I have been in charge of a PCI-Express IP development for switch application, leading a small team of 3 people.
I also set up a new design flow to improve the version management and to increase the productivity.

From June 2004 to July 2005 I was Project leader, managing a team of 13 skilled people in hardware and software for the development of a complete Bluetooth 1.2 IP. I was also managing customer support as well as sales team support.

From June 2003 to June 2004 I was assistant project leader in charge of a multi-site project for the development of a single chip WLAN 802.11abg SOC in 90nm.

From December 1999 to June 2004 I was hardware design engineer designing Bluetooth IP (Dec 1999 to Mar 2002), WLAN IP (Mar 2002 to June 2003), and WLAN SOC (June 2003 to June 2004). I took part in the whole development cycle, doing RTL design, simulation, ASIC and FPGA synthesis, FPGA validation, and customer support.

Design of the encryption block of a Bluetooth baseband IP core.
In charge of specification, RTL design, simulation, synthesis.

ATM boards validation.
Specification and design of an auto-test & initialization software for an ATM switch.