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August 04, 2006
Carl Ford / Krishna Yarlagadda
Carl Ford spoke with Krishna Yarlagadda Founder, President & CEO of HelloSoft.
Krishna is responsible for setting HelloSoft's mission, formulating corporate strategy and executing a plan for the company's overall growth.
Under Krishna's leadership, HelloSoft developed core IP (intellectual property) in communication technology areas such as Voice-Over-Packet, xDSL, 2.5G/3G wireless, Bluetooth and WLAN. HelloSoft's IP portfolio includes components such as echo cancellers, and vocoder, which are currently deployed on mission critical voice gateways handling voice calls in several major US cities.
Prior to starting HelloSoft, Krishna was Chairman, President & CEO of ZSP, where he pioneered the development of DSP's based on RISC technology. ZSP was acquired by LSI Logic, and it’s industry leading DSP architecture has been adopted by major semiconductor companies including Broadcom, IBM, Connexant, GlobespanVirata, Skyworks and Brecis.
A seasoned entrepreneur, Krishna was also the founder of CoWave, a broadband wireless company, nBand (sold to Proxim), a communications processor company, vEngines (sold to Centillium) and eSilicon. In addition, Krishna also served as an advisor to start-ups such as Silicon Spice (sold to Broadcom) and Intoto.
Krishna held key management and technical positions in the SPARC processor division of Sun Microsystems and was a key player in successful launch of four SPARC processors (UltraSPARC I & II, SuperSPARC I & II).
Krishna is a frequently invited speaker on DSP architecture and technology, and a contributor on DSP to industry journals such as Microprocessor report, Computer design, and EEtimes.
Krishna has a B.S and MS in Electrical Engineering.
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Posted at August 4, 2006 08:57 AM
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