PwrLite, Inc

Company

PwrLite, Inc. is an electronic design automation (EDA) company developing solutions to address all aspects of both dynamic and leakage power in semiconductor designs. The company was incorporated as a Delaware corporation in May 2007, and recently closed its first round of funding. The genesis of PwrLite stems from the founders’experience in working on multiple low-power processor and SOC designs. Their most recent experience was at P.A. Semi, Inc. (currently a division of Apple) whose first product is the best performance-per-watt PowerPC-based SOC in the industry.

The company's flagship product CooolGate^TM is an RTL-based analysis and optimization tool that blends innovation with ease-of-use to significantly reduce dynamic power in semiconductor designs. Till the point CooolGate enters production release, PwrLite is working with a select set of marquee customers under an early engagement model. Under this model PwrLite, Inc. will tailor its expertise and patented power savings technology for the customer, and pilot its tools to maximize the power savings on their designs. The company works closely with its customers to enable seamless integration of its product into their design flows.

Executive Management and Board of Directors

Sridhar Subramanian - CEO & President

Sridhar was a Consulting Architect at P.A. Semi responsible for the architecture and development of the memory subsystem for a family of PowerPC-based SOCs. Prior to P.A. Semi, he held positions of Project Lead, Engineering Manager and Director at AMD and Raza Microelectronics, where he worked on platform logic chips, the Opteron microprocessor and networking switches. He has over 20 years of experience in the architecture, design and verification of computer systems and semiconductors. He holds a M. Tech in Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras.

Sridhar Narayanan - CTO

Sridhar was a Senior Engineering Manager at P.A. Semi, responsible for both design-for-test (DFT) and debug architecture and development, and the manufacturing test operations of the company's products. Prior to P.A. Semi, he spent 10 years at SUN Microsystems, Inc. where he was involved in the design, verification and debug of five generations of the UltraSPARC processor. At SUN, he was also responsible for both internal tool development and evaluation of external EDA tools in the areas of processor design and verification. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from the Univ. of Southern California, and a B. Tech in Electronics Engineering from IIT, Madras.

Rahm Shastry - Member, Board of Directors

Rahm is currently the President & CEO of Nascentric, a Fast-SPICE simulation vendor. He has an established executive-level track record at several startups as well as leading EDA companies. Prior to joining Nascentric, Rahm served as the president & CEO of Santa Clara, CA based Tharas Systems, a hardware-assisted verification company which was acquired by EVE, Inc in 2006. At Cadence Design Systems he held marketing positions of increasing responsibility, rising to the position of Group Director for Logic Design & Verification. At Viewlogic Systems, he held various technical marketing, applications and sales positions. He was a co-founder and CEO of TriQuest Design Automation, a behavioral synthesis startup. Rahm has an extensive background in VLSI and computer systems design and verification. He started his career as an IC designer and hardware designer. He holds a MSEE from State University of New York, Stony Brook and a B.Tech in Electronics & Communications from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka (India).