Himamshu Khasnis
Founder and CEO
Himamshu brings over 28 years of experience in the Semiconductor Industry. He has played key roles in shaping the technology roadmap and defining new chipsets for 3G/4G/5G/6G/DSL/WLAN/GNSS/Advanced Optical Communication applications and has led the development of several successful market-leading chips. He is a founding member of the Governing Council for the Bharat 6G Alliance. Himamshu specializes in optimal solutions for Communication/Signal Processing/Mixed Signal and RF architectures and has filed more than 30 patents in these fields.
After a successful career at TI and Ittiam, Himamshu founded Signalchip in 2010, one of the very few fab-less semiconductor companies from India. Under Himamshu's leadership, Signalchip has developed its first semiconductor chipset, "Agumbe" for complex wireless networking standards – a first of its kind device to be made by an Indian Company. Recently, Signalchip has developed “Jeet”, a receiver chip for GNSS which supports the NavIC system.
Further, Himamshu went on to establish Signaltron in 2019, with an emphasis on the development of end-to-end communication systems. Signaltron's solutions include 4G/5G base-stations, SDRs, Autonomous Drones and high speed optical networking equipment. These represent the first communication systems that are indigenously developed and designed using Indian semiconductor chips.
Rajesh Mundhada
Founder and VP, VLSI Design
Rajesh has over 23 years of experience in VLSI development and engineering management. Rajesh is an expert in complex digital IP and system on chip definition and development. Prior to Signalchip, Rajesh held various engineering and management positions at Texas Instruments, Infineon and Lantiq. Rajesh has played key roles in architecture definition and development of the Physical Layer, Networking accelerators aof xDSL/3G/4G/5G technologies . Rajesh is adept in digital development and has taken several multimillion gate designs to production with zero bugs. Rajesh has 4 international papers and has filled 5 patents in the areas of very high throughput, area efficient data processing architectures for digital communications systems. Rajesh was elected as a Member of Technical Staff at Texas Instruments. Rajesh holds a masters degree in electronics from REC Nagpur, India.
Kandasamy Shanmugam
VP, Software Design
Kandasamy brings 25 years of experience building and selling wireless communication systems. He is an expert in the domain of 2G/3G/4G wireless communications, is in charge of Software development and System integration at Signalchip and has filed three patents. Prior to Signalchip, Kandasamy has held key development and management roles at Sasken. Kandasamy has been the Program Manager for 3G product development activities at Sasken and has seen through the development and deployment of Sasken's 3G stack in commercial offerings of Tier 1 mobile handset vendors. Also, as a senior manager of Business Development he was responsible for defining, creating and managing value based Modem and Connectivity offerings at Sasken. Kandasamy holds a masters degree in computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India.