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About the HiWire Consortium, Inc.

HiWire Consortium Inc. is a non-profit corporation formed to provide a support organization and forum for the advancement and adoption of HiWire Active Electrical Cables (“AECs”), by facilitating the development of high quality compatible HiWire AEC devices and promoting HiWire AECs to accelerate end-user demand for HiWire AEC products through increased public awareness of the benefits of HiWire AECs and the quality of products that have passed compliance testing.

The specific purposes for which the Consortium is organized are:

To define, establish and support a HiWire AEC-product review program, testing protocol and logo-licensing program in support of the HiWire AEC Specifications
To foster and encourage developers and test houses to voluntarily adopt accurate labels, tests, and specifications of products and services which utilize HiWire AECs.
To develop and distribute specifications and other documents that augment, enhance or extend the existing Attachment Unit Interface (AUI) Specifications developed by the IEEE 802.3 committees and multiple multi-source agreements covering specific connector types for the purposes of enabling and promoting increased interoperability and reliability among HiWire AEC products, excluding amending or developing AUI Specifications.
To provide a member forum and environment whereby the members of the Corporation may meet to review requirements for product interoperability and general usability.
To educate the business and consumer communities as to the value, benefits and applications for HiWire AEC-based.
To support the interoperability of HiWire AEC-based products and services by creating and implementing reliable, uniform, industry- standard compliance test procedures and processes.
To maintain relationships and liaison with organizations that support and contribute to the development of specifications and standards for HiWire AEC-based products.
To foster competition in the development of new products and services based on AUI Specifications, in conformance with all applicable antitrust laws and regulations.

HiWire Consortium, Inc. Board of Directors

The HiWire Consortium Board of Directors will direct the consortium’s efforts to facilitate the development of high-quality compatible HiWire AEC devices and promote end-user demand for HiWire AEC products through increased public awareness.

Sheng Huang, President and Board Member

Sheng Huang is the President of the HiWire Consortium and Director of Applications Engineering at Credo, focusing on high-performance and low-power Ethernet solutions at 56G and 112G PAM4 line rates for Chip-to-Chip, Backplane, and Line Card, Optical Modules and Copper Cable Connectivity.

Before joining Credo, Sheng spent 17 years at Marvell Semiconductor as Director of Technical Marketing and Field Applications Engineering supporting product definition, new customer engagements, and customer bringup. Sheng has an MS in Electrical Engineering from UC Irvine.

Elad Alon, Ph.D., Board Member

After completing his Masters and Doctorate in electrical engineering at Stanford University. Dr. Elad Alon joined the University of California at Berkeley in 2007 as a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and also serves as the co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC).

He has held founding, consulting, or visiting positions at Blue Cheetah Analog Design, Locix, Lion Semiconductor, Cadence, Xilinx, Sun Labs, Intel, AMD, Rambus, Hewlett Packard, and IBM Research, where he worked on digital, analog, and mixed-signal integrated circuits for computing, high-speed communications, and test and measurement.

Elad and his collaborators have been recognized with a number of awards for their research contributions to energy-efficient integrated systems, including the circuit, device, communications, and optimization techniques used to design them

Jri Lee, Ph.D., Board Member

Dr. Jri Lee received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), CA, USA, in 2003, and he joined National Taiwan University as a professor of electrical engineering since 2004. He has published more than 50 technical papers and holds tens of patents. He is a frequent winner of technical awards, and has served as a technical program committee member at ISSCC, VLSI Symposium, A-SSCC, and ESSCIRC.

Jri’s research interests include wireless and wireline communication circuits, ultra high-speed optical data links, millimeter-wave circuits, and blockchain associated techniques. He is the founder and CEO of Midasmicro Inc. and Midas Labs Inc.