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Dinesh Ramanathan was appointed vice president of the Data Communication Division in Nov 2005. The division designs and develops products such as dual port interconnects FIFOs and PHYs. It also designs TCAMs used in switches and routers to build out the Internet infrastructure.
Prior to this appointment at Cypress Ramanathan was the business unit director for the Specialty Memories Communications and CPLD business whose products include dual ports MoBL dual ports HD equalizers and PHYs.
Before joining Cypress in April 2004 Ramanathan held senior management positions at Raza Microelectronics and Raza Foundries. While at Raza Foundries an incubating venture capital company he was an observer on the board of Trebia Networks (acquired by Emulex) and SiSilk Networks (acquired by Raza Microelectronics). Ramanathan gained experience in design and VLSI CAD while working at Forte Design Systems and Synopsys Inc.
Ramanathan holds a Ph.D degree in Information and Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine. He also holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a master's degree in Mathematics from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) at Pilani in India . Ramanathan has published several articles in the areas of timing and power optimization for embedded systems online algorithms and the design of distributed computer systems | 