Press Release
Dr. Seth Sanders joins Akros Silicon Board of Advisors
University of California, Berkeley Professor Brings Deep Expertise
in High Frequency Power Conversion Circuits and Components
to Akros Board of Technical Advisors
Folsom, CA – December 1, 2005 -- Akros Silicon Inc., a developer of highly integrated
and innovative mixed signal and digital processing ICs for converged Ethernet
networking and power appliances, today announced that Dr. Seth Sanders has joined
the company’s Technical Advisory Board. Dr. Sanders served as Chair of IEEE
Technical Committee on Computers in Power Electronics and is currently Professor at
University of California, Berkeley’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Services
department where he teaches power management systems and IC design methodologies.
“I am very excited to see companies such as Akros Silicon take advantage of leading
edge advancements in mixed signal design techniques to offer low cost, high volume
and highly integrated system-level power management solutions for the networking
and telecommunications market,” said Dr. Sanders. “I look forward to working with
Akros Silicon and providing my guidance in developing truly exciting products for the
industry.”
“Dr. Sanders is an industry expert who has been in the forefront of technology
development and is viewed as a pioneer and leader in many areas of mixed signal
power management technology development” said John Camagna, Akros Silicon Vice
President of Engineering and Founder. “It is our privilege and honor to have Dr.
Sanders join our Board of Advisors to further strengthen our ability to offer exciting,
highly integrated mixed signal solutions for the emerging Power over Ethernet market
segment.”
About Dr. Seth Sanders
Seth R. Sanders received the S.B. degrees in electrical engineering and physics and
the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1981, 1985, and 1989, respectively.
He was a Design Engineer at the Honeywell Test Instruments Division, Denver, CO.
Since 1989, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, where he is presently
Professor. His research interests are in high frequency power conversion circuits and
components, in design and control of electric machine systems, and in nonlinear
circuit and system theory as related to the power electronics field. He is presently
actively supervising research projects in the areas of flywheel energy storage, novel
electric machine design, renewable energy, and digital pulse-width modulation
strategies and associated IC designs for power conversion applications.
Dr. Sanders received the NSF Young Investigator Award in 1993 and Best Paper
Awards from the IEEE Power Electronics Society and the IEEE Industry Applications
Society. He has served as Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computers in
Power Electronics, and as a Member-At-Large of the IEEE PELS Adcom.
About Akros Silicon
Bringing Intelligence to the Network Edge
Akros Silicon Inc., (“Akros” is Greek word for “edge”), a developer of highly integrated
and innovative mixed signal and digital processing ICs for converged Ethernet
networking and power applications, enables intelligence at the edge of the network in
the fast growing Internet appliance arena.
A fabless semiconductor company located in Folsom, California, Akros Silicon Inc.
focuses on developing highly disruptive and innovative integrated circuits using
advanced mixed analog and digital signal processing, digital signal processing and
algorithmic techniques.
Akros’ highly differentiated and IP-protected integration, using standard high volume
CMOS process technology, opens a huge opportunity for new silicon solutions for use
in the fast growing Internet and network appliance marketplace.
For more information, please visit www.AkrosSilicon.com
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