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Sankalp Semiconductor was a 2012 the winner of Red Herring's Top 100 Global award, as this year's most promising private technology ventures from the Asia business region. Sankalp is a one-stop shop for analog mixed signal services and solutions specializing in end-to-end solutions for IOs, analog and mixed signal chip design/layout. Sankalp and its subsidiaries have close to 360 engineers with design centers at Hubli (Karnataka), Kharagpur (West Bengal), Bhubaneswar (Orissa) and Kolkata (West Bengal) in India. It also has customer support center at Sunnyvale (California) in USA.
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"It is a true honor to be recognized as a Red Herring Top 100 Global company," said Vivek Pawar, Chief Executive Officer, Sankalp Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd. "With focus on analog & mixed-signal semiconductor technology, we help our customers create cutting edge products. We envisioned creating a strong ecosystem from Tier-II cities of India to cater to the design needs of the semiconductor industry. Not only have we done it but we have demonstrated on its scalability."
Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring stated, "After rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed our list down from hundreds of candidates from across Global to the Top 100 Winners. We believe Sankalp Semiconductor embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture. Sankalp should be proud of its accomplishment, as the competition was the strongest it has ever been."
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Sarda Technologies is focused on the development of advanced power switches for portable devices. Sarda will come out of stealth mode when they present a paper at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference in March. The paper will be titled, "The gFETT Switch: A New Low-Voltage High-Speed GaAs HEMT for Switching Applications," the authors are Robert White, Anthony Marini and Greg Miller.
Sarda is developing a fast, compact, multi-phase power stage module for <20 voltage regulators for mobile, enterprise and consumer systems. Sarda integrates multiple gallium arsenide (GaAs) FETs, their drivers and passive components in a compact QFN package. Sarda's patented technology significantly reduces the die size and increases the yield of the GaAs FETs. By increasing the switching frequency by one to two orders of magnitude versus MOSFETs, Sarda significantly shrinks the voltage regulator's footprint and height. The size reduction facilitates granular power delivery where a dedicated voltage regulator is used for each high current load to reduce system power consumption and increase performance, energy efficiency and battery life.
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The Sarda team is led by semiconductor industry veterans Bob Conner and Jim Vorhaus, both of whom have significant Fortune 500 company and startup experience. In February of last year, TriQuint Semiconductor announced that its Foundry Services division was supporting Sarda to bring a new line of high-efficiency converter switches to the global marketplace. This support will allow Sarda to utilize TriQuint's foundry line for the development and production of their product.
In March, Sarda received its first equity funding from IDEA Fund Partners, a venture capital firm providing seed and early stage financing to technology companies throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. Sarda had previously been awarded an NC IDEA grant in the Spring of 2011, receiving funds to assist in the patenting of its technology. During the grant process, Sarda created an advisory board that included NC IDEA Venture Advisor and IDEA Fund Partners Managing General Partner, John Cambier. Sarda is only the fifth NC IDEA grant recipient that has attracted investment from IDEA Fund Partners.
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