Christopher Hinds

Christopher Hinds has worked in the microprocessor design field for over 25 years, holding design positions at Motorola (now Freescale Semiconductor), AMD, and ARM. While at ARM he was the primary author of the ARM VFP floating-point architecture and led the design of the ARM10 VFP, the first hardware implementation of the new architecture. Most recently he has joined the Patents Group in ARM, identifying patentable inventions within the company and assisting in patent litigation. Hinds is a named inventor on over 30 US patents in the areas of floating-point implementation, instruction set design, and circuit design. He holds the BSEE and MSEE degrees from Texas A&M University, and the M.Div from Oral Roberts University, where he worked to establish the School of Engineering, creating and teaching the first digital logic and microprocessor courses. He has numerous published papers and presentations on the floating-point architecture of ARM processors. He lives in Austin with his wife and three sons.