Peggy Aycinena is a Freelance Journalist and Editor of
EDA Confidential.

Previously, Aycinena served as a Contributing Editor authoring Superheroes of SOC, EDA Weekly, in Play in EDA and EDA Nation, as Managing Editor of Visual Studio Magazine, as Copy Editor of Chip Design Magazine, and as Editor of ISD Magazine. Additionally, she has posted multiple blogs on GABEonEDA.com (Business 101), EDADesignLine.com, and EDACafe.com (Thursday's Child).

Aycinena's articles have appeared in print in IEEE Design & Test, Communications of the ACM, ISD Magazine, EETimes, Intelligent Enterprise, and numerous other publications as ghost author. Her articles have appeared on-line on ISD.com, EDN.com, EETimes.com, EEDesign.com, TechOnline.com, EDAToolsCafe.com, EDAVision.com, ChipDesignMag.com/edanation, SOCcentral.com, and FTPonline.com.

Additionally, Aycinena is a seasoned panel moderator, appearing in recent years at DAC in San Francisco, Anaheim, and San Diego, DATE in Munich, Nice, and Grenoble, DVCon in San Jose, SAME in Sophia Antipolis, edaForum in Dresden, and IP/SoC in Grenoble.

Aycinena has degrees in Biophysics and Electrical Engineering from UCB and SFSU, respectively, and studied control systems at Stanford while working at NASA. She roots for Cal at the Big Game.