Eric got his PhD in Computer Science from INPG, France, in 1982. For the first part of his career he worked as a researcher with CNET and CNRS in France, on architectural automatic synthesis, design and architecture, compiler infrastructure for highly constrained heterogeneous small parallel processors. Eric then held different technical management in the semiconductor industry, first with Motorola where he was involved into the architecture definition and tooling of the StarCore DSP. Then with ST microelectronics, first, Eric was in charge of all the software development of the Nomadik Application Processor and then in charge of the P2012 corporate initiative aiming at the development of a many core device. He is now co-founder and CTO of Greenwaves Technologies a French based startup developing an IOT processor derived from Pulp. He is also acting as a part time research consultant for ETH-Z.