TelASIC Communications, an analog and mixed-signal IC company delivering chipsets for wireless infrastructure applications, has added industry veteran Syrus Madavi to its board of directors. Madavi brings executive-level experience in analog, mixed-signal, and communications semiconductor technologies to TelASIC, most recently as president and chief operating officer at JDS Uniphase.

Prior to that, he was senior vice president of the high-performance analog business at Texas Instruments, where he managed products serving several markets, including fiber optics and wireless communications. Previously, he was chairman, president and CEO of Burr-Brown, a supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal ICs. Under Madavi’s leadership, Burr-Brown’s valuation increased from just $100 million to more than $7 billion when it was acquired by Texas Instruments in 2000.

“TelASIC has assembled some of the strongest analog and mixed-signal engineering talent, intellectual property, and products that I have come across,” commented Madavi. “With the acceleration of 3G wireless CAPEX spending, and the increase in acceptance for high data rate standards such as CDMA2000, WCDMA, EV-DV, and WiMAX, I believe TelASIC is very well positioned. I look forward to helping them take their unique potential and build a highly successful corporation.”

PK Dubey, TelASIC’s CEO, said, “As we transition from product development to delivery of our products to tier one customers worldwide, we look forward to Syrus’ contributions in helping us capitalize on these significant market opportunities.”

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