Management Team

 

Mansour Keramat, Ph.D.
Co-Founder, President and CEO

Dr. Keramat has over 10 years of design and teaching experience in the industry and academia. Dr. Keramat was Chief Analog Engineer at GlobespanVirata, a global leader in DSL communications, and was Principal Analog Designer at NVIDIA. Prior to that, he served as Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Director of the Mixed-Signal Laboratory, at the University of Connecticut, where he instructed numerous short courses on analog circuit optimizations to the industry. He also consulted for a number of companies in high-performance circuit design.

His expertise spans a wide range of high-speed analog circuits including A/D and D/A converters, PLLs, and Analog Front End's (AFEs) for imaging systems, wireline and wireless communications. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Superireure d'Electricite (SUPELEC) in France.

 

 

Mehrdad Heshami, Ph.D.
Co-Founder

Dr. Heshami has over 10 years of design and project management experience in the semiconductor industry. He was Director of Analog Engineering at GlobespanVirata, where he managed a team of analog engineers to develop several analog front-end (AFE) silicon for residential and enterprise-class DSL gateways. He has also held engineering management and principal analog engineering positions at NVIDIA, Excess Bandwith and Rockwell Semiconductors.

He has strong expertise in analog and mixed-signal circuits and systems, including high-speed, high-resolution data converters, phase locked loops (PLLs) and high-speed I/O circuits. His emphasis is on circuit optimization for lowest power consumption and smallest silicon area. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.