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David Flynn (born 19 November 1964) is a computer scientist, hardware engineer and former co-director and visiting professor at the University of Southampton ARM-ECS Research Centre, who is responsible for the initial development of the Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture and one of the design leads on the first fully synthesizable version of the ARM7, key to scaling the ARM IP licensing business.

Early life and education
Flynn was born in 1962 in Cambridge, England and was educated at Eton School. He attended the Hatfield Polytechnic, where he gained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in 1984 and received from Loughborough University a Doctor of Engineering degree in 2007. His thesis is titled Energy-efficient SOC design technology and methodology.

Career
Flynn joined Cambridge-based Arm in October 1991 and developed the Platform Independant Evaluation (PIE) card, ARM's first development card (not to be confused with the RaspberryPi).

Flynn is best known for creating the Arm open standard Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) bus to support both fast and slow memories and peripherals in the same system. When combined with ARM’s partnership business model with many silicon vendors this allowed end customers to select the precise set of peripherals in custom System on a Chip to optimize the silicon budget to the application. ARM's expectation of one trillion ARM-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

Honours and awards
Flynn received the 2019 James Clerk Maxwell Medal from the IEEE and RSE with fellow ARM engineer Dave Jaggar for "contributions to the development of novel Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) architectures adopted in 100 billion+ microprocessor cores worldwide".

Personal life
Flynn is is married and has three sons