Design Verification Club

Speaker profile: Praveen Vishakantaiah

Praveen Vishakantaiah is currently the Intel India President and also the Director of Digital Enterprise Group in India. He is responsible for all the Intel activities in India.

 Praveen joined Intel in 1993 and managed the development and deployment of software based fault simulator for Pentium® Pro microprocessor. He was one of the winners of the first Intel Innovators award in 1995. Starting 1996, he was part of the microprocessor design team for more than 7 years contributing to the development of Pentium® II, Pentium® III and Pentium® 4 microprocessors by first managing various aspects of design for test technology and later being the design automation manager. He relocated to India in 2003 to start the Processor System Validation group with focus on post-silicon validation and enabling of ingredients for Xeon® server platforms.

 Praveen holds MS and Ph.D degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering degree with Honors in Electronics and Communication from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirapalli, India.

Speaker profile: Nilesh Ranpura:

Project Manager-ASIC division

10+ years of experience in VLSI Design Cycle, Methodology and Verification in the areas of Bus Interfaces and Networking devices. Participated on various projects for Verification IP architecture definition, Complete Product development