Samir Palnitkar is the President of Jambo Systems, Inc., a leading ASIC design and verification services company and a Verisity Verification Alliance partner. Jambo Systems specializes in high-end designs for microprocessor, networking, and communications applications. Mr. Palnitkar previously founded Integrated Intellectual Property, Inc., an ASIC company that was acquired by Lattice Semiconductor, Inc., and Obongo, Inc., an e-commerce software firm that was acquired by AOL Time Warner, Inc.
Mr. Palnitkar holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; a Master's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle; and an MBA degree from San Jose State University, San Jose, California.
Mr. Palnitkar is a recognized authority on e, Verilog HDL, modeling, verification, logic synthesis, and EDA-based methodologies in digital design. He has worked extensively with design and verification on various successful microprocessor, ASIC, and system projects; worked on many e-based projects; and trained hundreds of students on e since 1997.
Mr. Palnitkar was the lead developer of the Verilog framework for the shared memory, cache coherent, multiprocessor architecture, popularly known as the UltraSPARC™ Port Architecture, defined for Sun's next generation UltraSPARC-based desktop systems. Besides the UltraSPARC CPU, he has worked on diverse design and verification projects at leading companies including Cisco, Philips, Mitsubishi, Motorola, National, Advanced Micro Devices and Standard Microsystems.
Mr. Palnitkar is the author of the best-selling book, Verilog HDL: A Guide to Digital Design and Synthesis, used at universities and semiconductor design companies worldwide. He is the author of three U.S. patents—one for a novel method to analyze finite state machines, a second for work on cycle simulation technology, and a third (patent pending approval) for a unique e-commerce tool. He has also published several technical papers. In his spare time, Mr. Palnitkar likes to play cricket, read books, and travel the world.