Dr Karthik Sankaran assigned as General Manager, Analog Devices

Analog Devices has appointed Dr Karthik Sankaran as General Manager of Embedded System Products and Technology (ESPT) Group. He is based out of Analog Devices India office in Bangalore.

 

Confirming the announcement, Richard Meaney, Vice-President – Products and Technology Group, said, “Karthik brings many years of engineering and business experience to his new role, and was a key contributor in developing Bangalore as a Center Of Excellence (CoE) in SHARC and BlackFin DSP products. Karthik established the embedded microcontroller capability for ADI that has enabled some of our most complex and successful ASSPs.”

 

Dr Karthik has been with ADI for more than fifteen years. He started as a design manager in the IC design team at Analog Devices India, responsible for the design of SHARC DSPs. He was also the Managing Director of ADI’s India Product Development Center Bangalore, from 2002 to 2006. In his previous role at ADI, Karthik was the Director of Integrated Systems and Digital Platforms Group (ISDG).

 

Karthik has more than twenty-five years of industry experience in the areas spanning chip design, software development and management.

 

Karthik pursued M.S. and Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A. He did his bachelors in engineering from PSG College of Technology (Madras University).