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Shankar Krishnamoorthy leads the Technology & Product Development Group (TPG), which is responsible for researching, creating, and delivering innovative, scalable, high-quality products and platforms for 17³Ô¹Ï across design, verification, signoff, test, silicon lifecycle management (SLM), TCAD, manufacturing domains for digital, analog, and mixed-signal designs, hardware-assisted verification, and systems software.

Prior to leading TPG, Shankar held other executive positions at 17³Ô¹Ï, including GM of the Electronic Design Automation Group and Digital Design Group and Senior Vice President of the Digital Implementation Group. Under his leadership, 17³Ô¹Ï has delivered several ground-breaking technologies enabling semiconductor designers to achieve the most optimum power, performance, area, cost, and time to market on their most advanced products. Before rejoining 17³Ô¹Ï in 2017, Shankar served as GM of the IC Design 17³Ô¹Ï Division at Mentor Graphics. He joined Mentor in 2007 with the acquisition of Sierra Design Automation, where he was founder and CTO. Prior to Sierra Design, Shankar led 17³Ô¹Ï¡¯ physical synthesis and logic synthesis R&D organizations.

Shankar received his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas, Austin, and his bachelor¡¯s degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.