Arctic Silicon Devices, ASD, is a fabless semiconductor company based in Trondheim, Norway. ASD aims to be a preferred partner for leading companies within high performance applications providing state-of-the-art Front End ICs like Data Converter Standard Products or Application Specific Standard Products based on data converter cores. The ASD value proposition is ultra low power dissipation, ease of use, and cost efficiency, while maintaining state-of-the-art performance.


Management Team

John Raaum M.Sc.E.E. Chief Executive Officer

John Raaum was educated at the Norwegian Institute of Technology NTH in Trondheim, Norway, and earned this M.Sc. in 1991. After 3 years with research activities on MMIC circuit design at the Norwegian Institute of Defense FFI, he joined Nordic Semiconductor ASA. At Nordic Semiconductor John held different positions within the ASIC department where he was responsible for analog design methodology, commercial and technical sales and implementation of ASICs. John also has experience from product industrialisation through positions at SensoNor ASA (now Infinion) and Q-Free.

Øystein Moldsvor M.Sc.E.E. Chief Technology Officer

Øystein Moldsvor was educated at the Norwegian Institute of Technology NTH in Trondheim, Norway. After his education he joined Nordic Semiconductor ASA where he worked for several years in different positions. The focus for all these years was analog design, and in year 2000 he became R&D Director of the Data Converter business unit at Nordic Semiconductor ASA. During that period he was responsible for technology development and financial results of the business unit. After his employment at Nordic Semiconductor ASA, he was the CEO of Chipidea Microelectronica Norway AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Chipidea Microelectronica SA. The Norwegian entity focused on data converter design in deep submicron processes.

Olav Lindquist M.Sc.E.E. Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Olav Lindquist Olav Lindquist holds a M.Sc.EE. from the Norwegian Institute of Technology NTH in Trondheim Norway, 1987. He has more than 20 years of experience from executive positions within management, sales and marketing from various electronics and semiconductor companies in Europe and United States. Prior to joining ASD, Lindquist worked for Fairchild Semiconductor for six years, as Marketing Director for Signal Path Product Line and Business Development Manager Europe.