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SpectraLinear Opens India Technology Center TMCnet Contributing Editor SpectraLinear, an integrated timing solutions company, has opened its India Technology Center in Bangalore. This is the company’s third design center and second outside the US. Recently the company started a design center in Taiwan.
The Bangalore center will employ up to 40 professionals, depending on the market demand, and will cater to the needs of the dynamic Indian market. It will primarily employ design, test and product engineers. The center will focus on IC design, test and product engineering, and production control supporting the company’s fab team at Chartered Semiconductor in Singapore and assembly and test operation activities in the Philippines, said Arvinder Chadha, SpectraLinear's vice president of operations, in a press release. The Bangalore team will help Asian customers to develop applications that depend on state-of-the-art timing technologies, said Chadha. Amul Atri will serve as managing director of the new center. He has 26 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, including running IC design centers for Motorola (News - Alert) and Maxim. SpectraLinear’s Taiwan office looks after sales, marketing, and technical services for customers and provides compliance support for their platforms’ timing designs. Timing the pulses is critical to the operations of an electronic system. In order to time the ICs it is necessary to combine analog and digital circuits. SpectraLinear timing circuits offer critical system level event synchronization, control and sequence multiple functions, minimize and control propagation delays and skews, distribute and process high speed signals, and reduce overall system level EMI through embedded and/or stand-alone functions. The role of the design center for timing devices is critical as the timing circuits and clock chips have very unique design and performance challenges and operate in very harsh conditions. At the same time they have to work accurately as per the demanding performance requirements. ---------- P R Sai is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page. |