Missing Link Tools
Missing Link Tools is a dynamic early stage startup - self funded, booking revenue and changing the world one chip development team at a time. We specialize in the front-end of the chip design process - build, test, regression and release management.
Founders
Missing Link Tools was founded in 2008 by two veteran chip design engineers with more than 30 years of combined chip design and verification experience.
Eric Peers, President
Eric is an accomplished software and hardware designer. He has over 16 years of experience in programming and chip design. His accomplishments include the microprocessor used in the "One Laptop Per Child" initiative and C-Loans - a web framework for marketing loans with over 150,000 customers, and over 2.5 million transactions. Eric has consulted for multiple companies and provided best practice verification and design methods along with authoring the tools to enable his customers to follow these practices. Eric also has experience as a technical lead/manager for several projects. When he is not coding for MLT, Eric can be found rock climbing in exotic locales like Northern Norway and Southern Australia.
Vishal Moondhra, CEO
Vishal is a 14 year veteran of the chip design industry. He has worked in large and small companies, including Intel, Sun, PMC-Sierra and Montalvo Systems, at various levels from design Engineer to second-level Manager. He is very familiar with all frontend design and verification methodology, all the way from architecture, micro-architecture and RTL to power, performance analysis and design team management. In his free time, Vishal writes short fiction and photographs landscapes in Northern California.