Sankalp Adds Sanjay Kulkarni & Harianth Renukamurthy to Senior Leadership

Aiming Outstanding Leaders at Multiple sites...

June 30, 2011 -- Sanjay  Kulkarni  (with 16 years of Industrial Experience) &  Harianth Renukamurthy (with 18 years of Industrial Experience) have joined Sankalp Semiconductor attracted by its Mission & Vision. They both bring the passion needed to succeed in the service industry and will be managing their own teams.

Sanjay Kulkarni

Sanjay has completed MS in MicroElectronics from BITS Pilani. He worked at TI from 1995-2003 & built TI India’s expertise in A/D converter domain. He established & lead their automation team for 3 years. After TI he worked at Insilica Semiconductor for 2 years & put together their physical design team. From 2005 to 2010, he worked at SanDisk managing their physical design team. He has developed indepth knowledge in IC-fabrication, Design, System, Reliability and Packaging.

His concept of the tool CALA ( Capacitor Array Layout Automation) developed in Texas Instruments has been patented. He was the co-author of paper “Cost reduction by designing a trim less 12 bit capacitor DAC based SAR ADC—TLV2544”  submitted in TI India  Technical Conference (1999) & it won Second best paper award. “A new user friendly method of parasitic representation” concept was presented in “VLSI design &  test workshop 1999” by him.

Harianth Renukamurthy

Harianth has completed  BE from REC, Suratkal (NITK) and MTech from IISc, Bangalore. His first job was with HCL-Hewlett Packard, New Delhi for 2 years and then he joined Texas Instruments, Bangalore in 1995. He was  part of ASIC library development team as an ASIC circuit design manager handling mainly standard cells and IO development and to some extent compiler memories. He was more closely associated with low power library development and power saving techniques in 90nm and 65 nm technologies.

In 2006 he took up the role of design manager of MSP430 designs on 0.35 um Flash technology and later moved on to the role of MSP430 project manager in Texas Instruments Germany. In 2010 he resigned from the job after about 15 yrs of service with TI with an aim of creating technical jobs closer to rural areas in India. Now he has joined Sankalp Semiconductor and hopes to scale the company to new heights.

About Sankalp Semiconductor

Sankalp Semiconductor is an AMS semiconductor design service provider that provides services to some of the largest semiconductor companies in the world. Sankalp was founded in 2005 by a team of industry experts. Sankalp’s mission is to create a world-class technology hub of mixed-signal semiconductor services and solutions . There are three key aspects by which the mission is being accomplished. First, work from second tier cities of India, which provides a balanced life-work environment allowing energy to be spent on deep technical issues. Second, attract proven technical leaders with entrepreneurial zeal to join Sankalp as partners, giving them complete freedom to define their own destiny. Third, work closely with some of the topmost colleges in the country by being physically close to the college campus – this takes care of scalability and forward looking ecosystem creation across diverse job domains. In recent years Sankalp has strengthened its position in the industry and employs 120 Sankalpites at multiple sites. For more information visit www.sankalpsemi.com or contact Ash Patel at +1-408-666-7462 / aashit_p@sankalpsemi.com