Russell Klein is a program director with Siemens EDA. He also is an adjunct professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Portland state University. At Siemens, he works in the High-Level Synthesis (HLS) group, and is focused on algorithm acceleration using HLS to migrate functions from software running on embedded processors into bespoke accelerators.Mr. Klein has held a variety of engineering, marketing, and management roles at Siemens EDA, formerly Mentor Graphics, over 25 years. He has been awarded 6 patents related to hardware/software co-design and co-verification.
