Babu Mandava is among the few who have fueled innovation in
the field of wireless technologies. His 22-year-long career in the semiconductor
field is dotted with innovations in ADSL and VoIP areas. Currently, he is the
president and co-founder of Beceem, a company that is a key contributor to the
IEEE 802.16e standards effort and has also been instrumental in defining the
first Mobile WiMAX profile for the WiMAX Forum.
Mandava obtained MSEE from IIT-Kanpur. From 1983 to 1986, he
worked at Semiconductor Complex, India, designing products for Indian telecom
and defense industries. In Centillium Communications, a company also co-founded
by him, Mandava was instrumental in the design and architecture of SIMD/VLIW DSP
processor that enabled the introduction of break through industry first like
multi-channel ADSL modem and high density VoIP chips. At Zilog, Mandava worked
on microprocessor, microcontroller including world's first micro controller/DSP
combo chips for the disk drive market.
He holds 5 US patents and publications in the area of design for testability
and fault tolerant processor design.