Pradeep Dharane, Managing Director, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, is responsible for VLSI development, embedded software development for new generation Power PCs, ARM-based processor development and ARM and PPC-based SoC development for the company’s Processor and Transport business units. He started the Applied Micro Design Center at Pune in 2008. Before Applied Micro, he worked at Marvell Semiconductors where he started the Marvell Semiconductors Design Center in Pune. Pradeep is involved in many local activities of IESA in Pune such as the i2, the Thought Leadership series and other VLSI conferences.