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Freescale Semiconductor is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004 after more than 50 years as part of Motorola, Inc. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries. For more information visit www.freescale.com.

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Magdy S. Abadir
Manager for EDA Strategy, Vendor Relations and Customer Collaborations, Tools and Methodology Organization
Freescale Semiconductor

Magdy S. Abadir received the B.S. degree with honors in Computer Science from the University of Alexandria, Egypt in 1978, the M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, in 1981, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1986.

Currently he is the manager for EDA Strategy, Vendor Relations and Customer Collaborations, Tools and Methodology Organization, Freescale Semiconductor. Prior to joining Motorola he was the General Manager of Best IC Labs in Austin Texas (a Burn-in and Test Engineering firm). From 1986 to 1994 he worked at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) in various leadership roles and he reached the level of senior member of the technical staff.

Dr. Abadir has been selected in 2005 as an IEEE fellow for contribution the verification and test of microprocessors. He has 8 patents issued plus several that has been filed. He co-founded and chaired a series of international workshops on the economics of design, test and manufacturing and on microprocessor test and verification (MTV). He has co-edited several books on those subjects, and he also published over 200 technical journal and conference papers in the areas of test economics, design for test, and design verification and economics. Three of his papers received best paper awards (DATE 98, ASP-DAC 2002, and DATE 2003). Dr. Abadir is the associate editor of Design and Test Magazine and he is an adjunct faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.