Scott T. Becker joined the board of Sidense in March, 2005. He has over 20 years of experience in the Semiconductor Industry. He spent 13 years as CTO and director of Artisan Components. Prior to this, he was a circuit design manager at Mentor Graphics, a circuit design engineer at Silicon Compilers and a product engineer at Signetics Corporation. He currently holds 25 semiconductor-related patents and serves on four technical advisory boards. He holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.