Venkat Konda

About Venkat Konda

Serial entrepreneur, Computer Scientist, and Engineer- Interconnection Networks Expert - Holds multiple breakthrough patents in interconnection networks which were reduced to practice realizing revolutionary benefits in FPGAs and Switches/Routers- Inventor of seminal 2D layouts for multi-stage networks and optimizations with revolutionary benefits in all dimensions such as area, power, performance and wire width in FPGA Fabrics/Interconnects- Inventor of seminal solutions for rearrangeably and strictly non-blocking multicast for arbitrary fanout, a ~60-year-old open research problem, for Clos, Benes and BFT networks- Founder/CEO Teak Networks and Founder/CTO Teak Technologies; Over 25 years of R&D, Management experience in various chip and systems companies Velio, Infineon, Mitsubishi Electric Research labs and nCube Corporation in Silicon Valley.

Experience

1. Founder CEO

   Konda Technologies Inc

   Mar 2007 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

   An intellectual property company providing chip & system level interconnect technology solutions based on patented technology.Currently holds 8 granted patents with more pending!Since the first 4 Konda patents were filed in 2007, Performed extensive product research to explore the product viability of the interconnect technology in those patents for FPGA interconnects and to realize the significant benefits in all dimensions such as area, power, performance over prevailing state of art.(One of the most difficult task particularly because I did not work in an FPGA company prior to it)Faced and overcame several technology hurdles such as 1) adopting multi-stage interconnects as FPGA fabric, 2) proving that Konda Interconnect is viable product against previously failed multi-stage FPGA fabric attempts, 3) proving more than 3X area savings and significant benefits in all other dimensions in various FPGA tool chains in comparison with prevailing FPGA interconnects, and 4) routing run times in parity with industry\'s best routing run times for ~150K LUT size benchmarks. Proven the patented Konda BFT FPGA routing network technology in 4 different Industry-standard FPGA Tool Chains with revolutionary and significant area (more than 3X), power, performance improvements, by routing all the designs of ~150K LUT size benchmarks, meeting the timing requirements, and in parity with Industry\'s best routing run times including in University of Toronto based VPR Tool Chain with the results validated by Prof. Vaughn Betz of University of Toronto. So far non-exclusively licensed and transferred Konda BFT Routing Technology to two semiconductor vendors some of whom already had several generations of FPGA based products using it.

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

  M Tech, Electrical & Electronic Communication Engineering

  1986 — 1987

• University of Louisville

  PhD, Computer Science & Engineering

  1988 — 1992

Skills

• Ic
• Hardware Architecture
• Fpga
• Product Management
• Asic
• High Performance Computing
• Integration
• Perl
• Embedded Systems
• Eda
• Algorithms
• System on a Chip (Soc)
• Rtl Design
• Soc
• Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (Fpga)
• Software Engineering
• Verilog
• Software Development
• Vlsi
• Tcl
• Entrepreneurship
• Simulations
• High Performance Computing (Hpc)
• Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (Asic)
• C
• Semiconductors
• Debugging
• Start-Ups