Richard Mellitz

Richard Mellitz is presently a Distinguished Engineer at Samtec, supporting interconnect signal integrity and industry standards, and actively driving technical direction in the latest IEEE 802.3 400G activities.He previously served as a Principal Engineer in the Platform Engineering Group at Intel, where he was a principal member of key processor and I/O bus teams, including Itanium®, Pentium®, PCI Express®, SAS®, and Fabric Rich has been a key contributor to the IEEE 802.3 backplane and cabling channel standards. Notably, his influence and leadership were pivotal in developing Channel Operating Margin (COM), the time-domain ISI analysis that is now an integral part of Ethernet standards. Furthermore, he was a founding driver of the IPC committee that delivered its first PCB loss test method and led the industry effort at IPC to deliver the first widely-adopted Time-Domain Reflectometry (TDR) standard. Richard holds numerous patents in interconnect, signal integrity, design, and test, and has delivered many signal integrity papers at electronic industry design conferences.