Hi guys,
I worked for HP in the 1994-1998 time frame. Our design lab was bought by the HP computer system division(CSO), they had operations in Roseville, Cupertino, Fort Collins. I did visited the Roseville and the Fort Collins plants. They called our lab CNO for Canadian networks operation. We designed fibre channel computer data switches. they contained a few custom ASICS that we had expertise in. I worked as a pcb layout CAD designer on our first product, then I worked as a designer for a backplane for the next generation of a gigabit switch product. HP sold our lab to McDATA Corp out of Broomfield,Co then they eventually closed the Toronto Lab in the early 2000's. I still meet up with some of my old work mates, some are still ASIC designers working for AMD, graphic division, the old ATI graphic co
Learnt a lot as a designer, the processes and steps of the design cycle, like a well tuned machine.
I am retired, I have a Lab in the basement with my fair share of HP test equipment as well.