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Franz Dugand

Senior Director of Sales and Marketing, Wireless IoT BU, CEVA. Franz Dugand is in charge of expanding the CEVA Wireless IoT product lines (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, UWB, NB-IoT) into various market segments such as mobile, consumer electronics, gateway, healthcare, automotive, industrial and other IoT applications. Franz has more than two decades of experience in the semiconductor IP area, specifically in the wireless IoT markets working on Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, UWB and NB-IoT. Before joining CEVA, he co-founded RivieraWaves in 2010 and lead the sales and marketing activities. In 4 years, he grew the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi IP business from zero to more than $4M annually, until the company has been acquired by CEVA. Before RivieraWaves, Franz has been the Product Marketing Manager at Wipro-NewLogic during 4 years, in charge of the Bluetooth IP portfolio. From 1999 to 2005, Franz held several positions as project leader, customer support manager, team leader and hardware design engineer at VLSI Technology, Philips Semiconductor, NewLogic and PLDA, working on various projects in Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and PCIexpress. Franz has an engineering degree from Telecom ParisTech, Paris, with specialization in Electronics of Telecom Systems. He also holds a Master degree in Applied Physics from Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble.

All blog posts by Franz Dugand

Connectivity Wi-Fi Wireless
From WiFi 6 High Efficiency Foundation to WiFi 7 Extreme High Throughput
Posted On July 13, 2022 Franz Dugand

Ever since the WiFi Alliance was formed in 1999, WiFi technology has continuously evolved to serve the ever-growing demand for …
Bluetooth Connectivity Wireless
I had a dream: Auracast made it come true.
Posted On June 8, 2022 Franz Dugand

My friend and I are at the airport, sitting in the waiting room next to the boarding gate, looking forward …
Bluetooth
The appeal of Bluetooth watches
Posted On October 21, 2021 Franz Dugand

– Originally written by Franz Dugand, director of Sales & Marketing, Wireless IoT BU, CEVA – Smart phones are unquestionably powerful and all-capable …
Wi-Fi
Achieving maximum throughput at an attractive price
Posted On December 4, 2020 Franz Dugand

As more devices are added to home networks with Wi-Fi support, we’re further choking our Wi-Fi bandwidth until we upgrade …
Audio / Voice / Speech Bluetooth
Building Your Earbuds. What Would You Need?
Posted On November 3, 2020 Franz Dugand

Earbuds are becoming to audio what the smartphone became to computing. Replacing a roomful of equipment with a small, personalized …
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi muscles in on 6 GHz
Posted On April 20, 2020 Franz Dugand

When you think of 6 GHz and wireless, it’s natural to think of 5G. It’s the top end of the …
Bluetooth Connectivity IoT Wireless
Bluetooth SIG Releases LE Audio at CES
Posted On January 6, 2020 Franz Dugand

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced LE (low energy) Audio and True Wireless Stereo (TWS) at CES in las Vegas, …
Bluetooth
Bluetooth 5.1 Refines Location Accuracy
Posted On March 11, 2019 Franz Dugand

GPS direction assistance to get from A to B has become so commonplace that physical maps for most of us …
Audio / Voice / Speech Bluetooth Wireless
Getting to True (and Non-Captive) Wireless Stereo
Posted On November 8, 2018 Franz Dugand

In the world of wireless earbuds we fairly quickly recognized, after Apple introduced AirPods, that earbuds connected by a strap …