Dr. Sankaran Menon
Debug Architect
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Ericsson
Dr. Sankaran Menon is a System Debug Architect at Ericsson, USA. After serving as a faculty member for ~4 years, Sankaran Menon made the switch from Academia to Industry by joining Texas Instruments in Dallas, TX to work on DFX for ASICs. After serving a 2-year stint at Texas Instruments, Sankaran moved to Intel in Austin, where he worked for 25+ years as DFX Architect on Xscale SoCs as well as Atom/Big-Core SOCs and FPGA/Structured ASICs
Sankaran Menon is a Senior Life Member of IEEE and is chair of many IEEE conferences/ workshops and has been granted over 34+ patents and has filed over 80+ patent filings. He has published over 100+ publications and has been a significant contributor to several Standards/Workgroups, such as IEEE P1500, IEEE 1149.1, IEEE 1149.7, MIPI Debug standards, USB Debug Class, USB Type-C Debug standards. He is currently the Co-Chair of IEEE P2929 “Standard for System-Level State Extraction for Functional Validation and Debug”. He has co-founded over 10 IEEE conferences/workshops in the area of VLSI Testing/Debug.
Sankaran Menon holds Ph.D. and MSEE degrees from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA.
His hobbies are Photography, Videography, and Traveling as well as Music.