Biography: Pradiptya Ghosh

Pradiptya Ghosh is Sr. Director of Engineering responsible for Calibre Semi-manufacturing Products and has been with Mentor since 2007.

• During his time he launched 12 research programs that got converted into products like Double Patterning/Multi Patterning, Cluster Management, MB-SRAF, nmbias(retargeting tool), nmModelFlow, MPC and Calibre FullScale etc.
• He is currently actively involved in research initiatives in the domain of Computational Intelligence applicability, HPC and longer-range research programs.
• Besides core technical work, he was at point for acquisition of Softjin Litho group and also bringing in AWS infrastructure for Calibre product development.
• He represents Mentor on the Industry Board of SJSU-MESA(Vice-Chair) and CDEN(UC Berkeley/UCLA/UCSD research program in Process, Device, Design and CAD).

Previous to Mentor, he led architecture evaluation team for 5 FPGA families at Lattice Semiconductor and worked on datapath design/CAD tools for 5 generation of Sun Microsystem’s UltraSparc (USparc2-USparc5 and Javachip).

He started an EDA startup on Si-Diagnostic space in late 90’s and failed.

He has a MS in Computer & System Engg from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Certification of Business Excellence from Haas School, UC Berkeley.

He has a few paper and patents in place and route, multi-patterning, DFM(related to alt-PSM), Mask Data Preparation and Cluster resource management.