Venu Gopinathan

Venu Gopinathan is an expert in the Industry in Data Converters, High Speed Circuits and Analog Design. He holds 16 patents and over 16 publications.

In 1990 he joined the SC Research group of Texas Instruments, Dallas where he worked on high-speed CMOS analog circuits (A/D converters filters, etc.) for advanced hard-disk drive read-channels. He later moved to New Jersey and co-founded the design center for TI Research in New Jersey. Between 1997 and 1999, he worked at Bell Labs’ Circuits Research Lab in Murray Hill, NJ.

In 2000, he moved to Broadcom Corporation, and co-developed nonlinear equalizers for optical dispersion compensation over a period of four years. He also led the high-speed serial communications group at Broadcom during the same period. In 2004 he moved to Texas Instruments, Bangalore R&D Center where he is the Director of the Wireless Solutions Group, in charge of delivering Bluetooth, WLAN, DTV and GPS chips.

From 1996 to 1999, he served as an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University teaching courses on analog IC’s and high-speed data converters. He also served as a guest editor of IEEE JSSC for the Analog Special issue of December, 2000 and the issues of March 1995 and March 1996.

He has been a member of the Data Converter technical program subcommittee of ISSCC since 1999. He was on the CICC Technical Program Committee from 1999 to 2002, chairing the Analog Subcommittee for the last two years. He has authored several papers in journals and conferences and holds 16 granted US patents with five more pending. He has lectured in a short-course at ISSCC 2004 and other venues.

Venu Gopinathan received his B.Tech. Degree in Electronics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in 1986. He completed his Masters at Columbia University, NY. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, NY in the field of high-speed continuous-time filters in 1990.