Dr.Sankara Reddy, President & CEO

Dr. Sankara Reddy earned his Ph.D in faculty of engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1997 and M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1984. He has 26 years of experience in microelctronics and VLSI area.  His primary area of expertise is VLSI circuit design, ASIC and Foundry development. He has productized various chips and IPs including memories (SRAMs), PLLs, voltage regulators, ADC, DAC, crystal oscillator, high speed transceivers and bus interfaces. Besides circuit design he has good expertise in IP development and foundry enablement activities. He has built teams from scratch, managed and grew the circuit design team in the areas of std cell, IO, SOC designs (RTL to GDSII), high speed transceiver and IP development of analog and digital cores. He is responsible for complete ownership of India team in circuit enablement, PDK verification and technology and foundry migrations. Prior to Co-founding a full fledged analog/interface IP design company, Terminus Circuits Pvt Ltd, He held senior level management position at IBM where he has built, led and managed design groups. He also had contributed at senior level positions at Spike technologies (acquired by Qualcomm) and Sasken Communications ltd. Prior to this he was at IISc Institute of Science (www.iisc.ernet.in)  as faculty member in ECE department for 15 years and was responsible for research and development in the advanced areas of microelectronics.

Dr. Reddy holds 6 patents (published/filed) and has 15 published papers in refereed journals and technical conferences.

Murugesan Raman, Engineering Manager ( IP developments)

Mr. Murugesan brings in 13+ years of expereince in analog and interface cirucuits. Prior to joining us, he was engineering Manager ( IP execution team) of Intel and and hands on designer  in all the aspects of high speed & complex designs  up to 14nm technology nodes.  He has nurtured many of the analog circuits and layout  designers from hand holding to making them quality engineers of worldwide delivery teams. He brings in enriched experience in the field of Analog PLLs, DPLLs, Memories, power Management Units, data converters and complex high speed Interface IPs. Prior to Intel he served Microchip, Texas Instruments and Motorola in various capacities including project management. 

Murugesan earned his Master’s degree from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), one of the premier research institute in India  and has 13 years of enriched analog design experience. Murugesan holds 3 patents and 10 invention disclosures in the field of analog and mixed signal field.

Sanjeev Kumar Sharma,  Director, (IP Sales & Marketing) 

Sanjeev Sharma brings in  12+ years of experience in semiconductor industry with a special focus on  analog, Interface and mixed-signal products. He has an extensive background of IP sales & marketing that includes strategic and tactical planning, setting up distribution channels and joint marketing partnerships. Prior to joining Terminus Circuits, Sanjeev served as Project Manager at Wipro Technologies where he was responsible for managing AMS IP portfolio and delivery of Analog Macros.

He holds Master degrees from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in Electronic Science and he received MBA degree from Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship, Bangalore.