He received a BSc in Physics in 1974, a BE in 1976, a Ph.D. in 1978, and a Doctor of Engineering (honoris cause) in 2014,[1] all from the University of Adelaide.
Weste worked at a number American technology firms, including Bell Telephone Laboratories, Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, Symbolics, Agile Systems, and TLW.
[2] After the acquisition, Weste remained with Cisco for 2 years and then founded NHEW R&D, a technology-investment and consulting firm that he continues to manage.
[3] Weste has 14 U.S. patents to his name, including a number of methods for doing wireless communication in CMOS integrated circuits.
Weste's textbook, Principles of CMOS VLSI Design (initially coauthored with Kamran Eshraghian[4][5] but now coauthored with David Harris[6][7]) is a standard textbook in integrated-circuit design courses.