Jason Jones – Founder
Prior to founding Rockfish Technology in 2005, Jason Jones had 12 years experience in the networking hardware industry designing and verifying large and complex ASICs.
His first exposure to advanced transactor based verification methodology was in the server group of Hewlett Packard – Cupertino developing Symmetric Multi-processing (SMP) and Cache Coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access (CCNUMA) chipsets for the IO subsystem and processor bus of HP’s flagship server product.
After 5 years working with the proprietary verification methodology at HP, he built transactor based testbenches with industry standard tools at several start-ups (Troika Networks, Internet Machines, Cortina Systems, and CSwitch) in many roles from individual contributer to Director ASIC Development.
He led the verification of many ASIC projects:
- switch fabric chip in a terabit router
- network processor and traffic management ASIC for a 10 gigabit lineport
- 24 port ethernet aggregation product
- fibre channel host bus adapter
- XAUI lineport
Notably, he participated in the architecture of the new Interlaken chip-to-chip interconnect standard.
After building verification teams, methodologies, and IP from scratch several times, Jason realized that great cost savings could be achieved by jumpstarting a verification effort with proven verification IP and verification engineers experienced with that IP. Rockfish Technology is the realization of that vision.