Date: 30/01/2012

Mentor hires its x-employee to head its Indian FPGA design tool business

Mentor Graphics Corporation has appointed Dr. Srinivas Mandavilli as Product Line Director for the Integrated Silicon Systems (ISS) business unit with responsibility for a wide breadth of FPGA design products including synthesis and FPGA/PCB co-design.
Though India' semiconductor market is small compared to global market, FPGA is widely used here, and the growth is higher than global average. EDA tool vendors are now provided with an opportunity to capture the fast emerging FPGA design market.

Dr. Mandavilli will report directly to Henry Potts, the Mentor vice president and general manager of the Systems Design Division, responsible for approximately 30% of the Mentor business.

Dr. Mandavilli has held engineering and management positions in the past at Motorola, Hitachi, and Ionic Microsystems, and was co-founder of Lucivid Software Systems. He also had seven years at Mentor Graphics where he managed the Hyderabad R&D center with engineering management responsibility spanning several areas of advanced technology development. Along with a best thesis award for his Ph.D dissertation in Genetic Algorithms, Srinivas has over 2,000 citations to date for his IEEE publications.

"It is a pleasure to have Srinivas back with Mentor," stated Henry Potts. "FPGA design and optimization is a critical part of advanced systems design for our customers and the focus on those products, with this investment in India, will ensure their success in the marketplace."