MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Professor Anantha P. Chandrakasan appointed to Analog Devices Career Development Professorship

September 15, 1994

To: EECS Faculty and Staff

From: Paul Penfield, Jr.

Subject: Analog Devices Career Development Chair

I am pleased to report that Prof. Anantha P. Chandrakasan has been appointed to the Analog Devices Career Development Professorship. The appointment is effective immediately, and will extend through the 1996-1997 academic year.

Anantha is a new Assistant Professor, who has just arrived from Berkeley, where he worked with Bob Brodersen in the area of low-power electronic systems. His doctoral work included the system design of a portable multimedia terminal, with the detailed design of six different low-power custom chips that, combined, consume less than 5 mW of power. He examined a variety of system issues, such as optimum system partitioning, for portable application. This semester Anantha is teaching recitation sections of 6.002.

The Analog Devices professorship has been in place since 1980. The previous chairholder was Jim Chung. Before him, Srini Devadas, Jacob White, Charlie Sodini, Harry Lee, and Rafael Reif have all held the chair.

Dr. Dennis D. Buss of Analog Devices is enthusiastic about the selection of Prof. Chandrakasan. He believes that the kind of technology involved in Anantha's thesis, low-voltage CMOS, will be key to the development of low-power hand-held communications products of the future. Analog Devices is very interested in this technology. Buss looks forward to working with Anantha, and views this chair as a means of maintaining links between MIT and the company.