Larrie Carr is the VP of Engineering at the newly formed Interconnect SoC business unit at Rambus Inc. He is leading the development and architecture of Rambus’ new product initiatives which are focused on enabling memory connectivity, expansion, pooling, and switching using CXL technology.
Before Rambus, Larrie was a Technical Fellow at Microchip Technology responsible for technical strategy and architectural guidance for Microchip’s broad portfolio of datacenter solutions, including serial memory controllers, SSD controllers, RAID solutions, PCIe switches, SAS expanders, and other initiatives not publicly announced. During that time, Microchip provided significant contributions to the CXL 2.0 standard in the areas of switching and fabric management under Larrie’s supervision
While at Microsemi Corporation (later acquired by Microchip), Larrie led internal innovation and external technical engagements related to OpenCAPI, Gen-Z, Compute Express Link (CXL) and RISC-V within the Microsemi CTO organization. Among other outcomes, these engagements resulted in the development and eventual productization of the industry’s first in-production serial memory controller ASIC (OMI to DDR4). Prior to Microsemi, Larrie led product architecture for PMC-Sierra’s enterprise storage business unit from inception to an industry leadership position. During that tenure he established PMC-Sierra as a technology leader in the area of storage connectivity, security, reliability, availability, and serviceability – concepts that extend well into the tiered memory architecture that the CXL standard will enable. He also served as a private consultant conceiving many of the industry’s first-generation non-volatile memory solutions.
He earned a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in electronic engineering from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.