Analog Devices appoints Dr. Karthik Sankaran as GM

BANGALORE, INDIA: Analog Devices Inc. has appointed Dr. Karthik Sankaran as the GM of Embedded System Products and Technology (ESPT) Group. He is based out of Analog Devices’ India office in Bangalore.

Confirming the announcement, Richard Meaney, VP - Products and Technology Group said: “Karthik brings many years of engineering and business experience to his new role, and was a key contributor in developing Bangalore as a Center Of Excellence (CoE) in SHARC and BlackFin DSP products. He established the embedded microcontroller capability for ADI that has enabled some of our most complex and successful ASSPs.”

Dr. Karthik has been with ADI for more than 15 years. He started as a design manager in the IC design team at Analog Devices India, responsible for the design of SHARC DSPs. He was also the MD of ADI’s India Product Development Center Bangalore, from 2002 to 2006. In his previous role at ADI, Karthik was the director of Integrated Systems and Digital Platforms Group (ISDG).