Matthew Todd Lawson
About Matthew Todd Lawson
Many years of experience leading technology architecture and designing 10-500M gate ASICs in the networking industry. Designed first TCP/IP logic-based offloading engine. Co-designed many generations of Cisco's primary enterprise level crossbar switch fabric ASICs. Designed PCS IP to replace 8b10b in Cisco's 6k, 7k, DC3 platforms. Extensive experience in SERDES: PCS, endecs (64/66, 8b10b, proprietary, etc.), IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standards, Fibre Channel, PCIe, 1.25 - 56G+ SERDES. Extensive experience with Ethernet standards: 1G to 400GE MAC/PCS/PMA/LT/AN/etc. Experience designing chip to chip interfaces for 2.5D MCM topology. Designer of custom guitar & bass amplifier cabinets.Specialties: Extensive experience in high speed ASIC design, datapath design, including crossbar technologies and SERDES, general logic design, etc.