Women in Hardware Mentorship Program

Jeanne Trinko Mechler
Fellow
Custom & Compute Silicon
Marvell Technology

Jeanne Trinko Mechler, is a fellow at Marvell Technology in Custom & Compute Silicon. After 30 years at IBM, she joined GLOBALFOUNDRIES in 2015, and Marvell in 2018. She has decades of experience in SOC design including wired & wireless SOCs, interface chiplets, AI/Machine learning accelerators, and has led over 60 chip designs in more than 10 technology nodes. She led a team that implemented the first Peta-Op/s AI training chip. She was the technical lead for ChipletX, an 800G Ethernet repeater chiplet using 112G XSR (eXtra Short Reach SerDes) and 112G long reach SerDes, which was demonstrated at OCP and CES. She is an author of the engineering textbook High Speed SerDes Devices and Applications, as well as more than 20 patents/publications. Jeanne serves as the technical conference chair for Marvell’s bi-annual company-wide engineering conference. Early in her career, she performed seminal research on transition delay faults, test generation and diagnostics, with publications in the Journal of Research and Development. She was the first person to use eDRAM devices as high efficiency decoupling capacitors, on chips without eDRAM memories. She was the first to root cause, diagnose, and publish on Contention-Induced Latch-up, a reliability failure mechanism at the International Reliability Physics Symposium. She developed hierarchical design methodology and automated design profiling when flat chip designs became impractical and has been a frequent invited speaker at the Design Automation Conference. She has experience in circuit design, test chip design, qualification, reliability, design-for-test, and failure analysis, in addition to SOC design and architecture. For more than thirty years, she led a week-long Science & Technology camp for middle-school girls to build a pipeline of young women excited about engineering. She was a charter member of the University of Vermont SWE section, the North Country SWE section, and the is a lifetime member of the Society of Women Engineers, served three years as Governor of the New England region, and is a frequent SWE conference speaker. Jeanne earned the M.S. and B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Vermont and the M.S. degree in engineering management from the National Technological University. She is the mother of three children, enjoys international travel and photography, and has visited 35 countries.