[3][4] Reedy began his career at the NOSC (US Naval Ocean Systems Center) where he worked on silicon CMOS processing.

In 1988, Reedy along with NOSC colleagues Mark Burgener and Graham Garcia published a research paper in IEEE Electron Device Letters that proved that SOS films thinned to 100 nm were suitable for application to high-performance down-scaled CMOS circuitry.

Peregrine became a fabless chip designer[7] that was publicly traded on the NASDAQ[8] until the company was acquired by Murata in December 2014 for $471 million.

Reedy sits on the Council of Advisors for UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering and its Gordon Leadership Center.

"[16] The IEEE Noble award is presented annually to individuals who made a significant contribution to emerging technologies.