Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: eASIC Corp
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 6 April 2006
Banerjee leads programmable ASIC development
aASIC Corp has appointed Kaushik Banerjee to the position of Vice President of Engineering.
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eASIC Corp has appointed Kaushik Banerjee to the position of Vice President of Engineering. In this role, Banerjee will lead the development of the company's programmable ASIC products, technology and related design tools. Reporting to Ronnie Vasishta, eASIC's Chief Executive Officer, Banerjee will oversee the global engineering and R and D operations including North America, Romania and Malaysia.
Banerjee has extensive management experience in the areas of chip and system architectures from definition through product rollout.
He has proven success in building and managing multiple design centres and design teams in the USA and globally.
Prior to joining eASIC, Banerjee served as Vice President of System-on-Chip R and D at Marvell Semiconductor's Communications and Consumer Business Group, where he managed hardware, software and system development teams in various product areas globally.
Previously, he worked as Vice President of High-End WAN/LAN Business Unit and US Design Centres at Fujitsu Microelectronics, managing business operations, defining ASIC strategy and interfacing with tier-one customers.
Before Fujitsu, Banerjee was Vice President of Systems Engineering at Innovacom and also founded Silicon Crafters, a startup providing design services and ASIC development consulting.
Earlier in his career, Banerjee worked as ASIC designer and FAE in numerous companies including: Compass Design Automation/VLSI, Viewlogic Systems, Zycad and National Semiconductor.
He holds MSEE (semiconductor electronics) from Cornell University and BSEE with honours from Pratt University.
'I'm very pleased to have Kaushik join our management team', said Ronnie Vasishta, eASIC's Chief Executive Officer.
'His proven success in building and leading engineering teams and global design organisations will help eASIC execute its product development strategy and achieve aggressive growth plans'.
'His role is critical nowadays as the evolving programmable ASIC domain is in the process of identifying the winning solution for this market'.
'The increasing requirements to customise the design in hardware amid a huge cost of existing ASIC/FPGA solutions, drive the need for a disruptive technology such as eASIC's that can provide affordable mass customisation for high performance applications'.
'I'm very excited to join eASIC and lead the engineering team to deliver NRE-free programmable ASIC products to the marketplace', said Kaushik Banerjee.
'eASIC's innovative customisation approach is poised to revolutionise the ASIC arena and fuel the industry growth by allowing increased number of designs'.
'I look forward to leading eASIC's products into the mainstream ASIC design'. Request free introductory details about products from eASIC Corp....
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