Kanan Saurabh

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of experience in high-speed design.
Led multi-disciplinary teams for innovative solutions.
Strong customer-facing skills with tier-1 clients.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in semiconductor design and engineering with a focus on RF and high-speed communication technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

High Speed Serial LinksProject ManagementCircuit DesignRf DesignArchitectureIntegrationAnalog Design

Other Skills

System ArchitectureLow-Power ClassD Audio amplifiersValidationCustomer ManagementGNSS RF-IP DesignNFC-RF IPsUSB2.0USB3.0High Speed Serial Communication Links1394B PHYUSB3 PHYUSB2 PHYsAnalog-PLLsDigital PLLsNFC

About

Over 20 years of experience in High Speed Serial Links, RF, Circuit Design, System Architecture, post-silicon validation, Team setup and leadership, Vendor and Customer relationship management. Enjoys customer facing roles. Experienced in hiring and setting up medium sized teams in Singapore and Bengaluru respectively. Currently leading a multi-disciplinary ~80 member project team to deliver industry leading serial link solutions at leading edge process nodes. Managing diverse disciplines (aside from my background area of circuit design and validation) including firmware, system validation, pre-silicon verification and logic design. Delivered industry leading GNSSRF solution as well as high visibility watch cellular modem RF solution to tier1 consumer electronics customer. Worked on multiple connectivity and cellular RF products and diverse high speed serial links..

Experience

22 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Intel corporation

High speed design and management

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Managing a high speed serial links design team working on multi-gig NRZ and PAM solutions for cable and backplane.

High Speed Serial LinksProject ManagementCircuit DesignSystem Architecture

Texas instruments

Analog Design Manager

Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

Managed a Circuit design team delivering Low-Power ClassD Audio amplifiers to tier-1 Handset manufacturers.

Circuit DesignLow-Power ClassD Audio amplifiers

Intel corporation

RF/Analog Design Manager

Aug 2013 – Dec 2019 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Singapore, Bengaluru

Setup and leadership of RF teams in Singapore and Bangalore. Team strength 18-20 members.
Architecture, design, validation, integration, customer interface and leadership of GNSS RF IP for all Intel wireless platforms
Initiation and Leadership of a cross-functional team (RF/Digital/FW/Validation/SW integration) to support and deliver a Cellular RF module to a Watch product for a tier-1 customer. Team strength of 25 members in Singapore and Bengaluru. Key customer interface role with a tier-1 customer
Engagement with internal and external design/engineering/academic ecosystem

RF DesignArchitectureValidationIntegration

St-ericsson

Member of Technical Staff

Aug 2009 – Aug 2013 · 4 yrs · Singapore

Led the design and integration of a GNSS RF-IP.
Architecture, design and testing of NFC-RF IPs.
Design and testing of USB2.0 and USB3.0 devices

GNSS RF-IP DesignNFC-RF IPsUSB2.0USB3.0RF Design

Oxford semiconductors

Staff Engineer

May 2007 – Aug 2009 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Design and testing of high speed serial communication links.
Involved in the design and testing of 1394B PHY and USB3 PHY.
Also involved deeply with the Silicon WG of the 1394 Industry group. Owned the modeling activity for the S3200 specification in the working group.

High Speed Serial Communication Links1394B PHYUSB3 PHYHigh Speed Serial Links

Texas instruments

Senior Design Engineer

Jan 2003 – Jan 2007 · 4 yrs

Design of various USB2 PHYs starting from 130nm to 65nm.
Design and support of multiple Analog-PLLs and Digital PLLs with frequencies ranging from 312Mhz to 1.8Ghz in technologies ranging from 90nm to 45nm.

USB2 PHYsAnalog-PLLsDigital PLLsAnalog Design