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Manish Kothari and N Venkatesh

Mr. Manish Kothari and Mr. N Venkatesh, Silicon Labs Hyderabad gave a talk on Energy Efficient Devices in the IoT on 13 March. A summary of the talk as explained by the speakers: 

Extended battery life is a common requirement for most wireless IoT devices and end nodes involved in activities such as sense/control, compute, intelligence and communication. This talk covers at a high level the fundamental HW/SW architectural considerations for achieving a very low power wireless end node ASIC design without sacrificing performance. Techniques such as HW/SW partition, algorithms, isolation and regulation of power, dynamic performance scaling and, process node selection/consideration will be drilled down to provide practical challenges faced in the design of wireless receivers and SoCs. Finally, trade-offs that have to be considered by a design engineer in coming up with an optimal solution within constraints of power, performance, cost, schedule, flexibility, competition, and others will be elaborated upon to highlight the differences and challenges that are faced in Industry in comparison to an unconstrained design approach that one has typically learned in school/university.

N Venkatesh is Senior Director, Engineering at Silicon Labs through its acquisition of Redpine Signals in March 2020. He has over 35 years of engineering and management experience in wireless system design, IoT solutions, semiconductor design, and avionics. His current areas of interest are on building semiconductor and system solutions in the field of the Internet of Things. Mr. Venkatesh holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. He holds 22 US patents, has contributed to IEEE standards development, and has written numerous articles in technical journals. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and a recipient of the VASVIK Award for Industrial Research in 2011. He is actively involved in interactions and partnerships with academic institutions. He is also an active IEEE volunteer and was the Chair of IEEE Hyderabad Section in 2019. He is a Board Member of TiE Hyderabad and volunteers to help foster entrepreneurship.

Manish Kothari serves as the vice president of Silicon Labs, India, a leading provider of silicon, software and solutions for a smarter, more connected world. He is responsible for growing the wireless engineering talent, build scalable infrastructure, and foster local partnerships in India and Hyderabad, the company’s newest and fastest-growing wireless development center. He has more than 20 years of technology management experience, most recently serving as head of wireless software product development at Qualcomm Hyderabad spanning cellular (2G to 5G), Wifi/BT/BLE, NFC and GPS technologies. He has built and managed teams of more than 1,000 wireless developers and systems engineers, and holds more than 100 patents. Manish graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and received his MS and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.