1. Wayne Rodrigue
Intel Corporation
1900 Prairie City Road
Folsom, CA 95630
July 4, 2015
Recommendation letter for Zeev Markman
Validation Engineer
For Future Employers of Zeev Markman, this is my honest opinion.
It is my pleasure to recommend Zeev Markman for employment in your organization of computer and/or
electrical/electronic engineering relating to validation and/or design in pre- or post- silicon.
I have known and worked directly with Zeev as a peer for a period of about 2 years while on relocation from
the USA to Israel. Zeev has proven his worth in doing debug, content creation, platform enabling and
extensive data collection and analysis for our memory validation team for the Skylake microprocessor family.
He has extensive knowledge of RTL, electrical design principals,platform layout, platform level debug, and
knows many programming languages. He is quick to learn/pick-up in new areas where his expertise is needed.
(Example – Zeev learned python scripting for much of his work while employed at Intel)
While working directly for me, Zeev did an extensive risk analysis for Skylake on the memory array row
hammering problem relevant to today’s platforms – he learned LPDDR3, DDR4 and DDR3L protocols and used
on-die DFX as well as commercial and in-house logic and protocol analyzers to collect and analyze the data on
multiple drams from multiple vendors and configurations. He used multiple OS’s with both commercial and
in-house software. In the end he produced a companywide report showing Skylake’s exposure to this issue,
and how our different mitigation solutions affects the performance and power of the system as a whole. Only
an experienced, seasoned engineer could handle such a task and get the exact results we were looking for.
I believe that Zeev is an asset for any organization in the electronic design/validation field. He is a team
player, and can juggle lab debug vs. individual tasks. He is also willingto go the ‘extra mile’, staying late and
working weekends when deadlines come up, or the debug backlog is full.
Sincerely,
Wayne Rodrigue
Senior Validation Engineer