Dr Yankin Tanurhan
VP of Engineering, Processors, Subsystems and NVM IP Solutions at Synopsis
Before joining Synopsys, Dr. Yankin was Vice President and General Manager of Virage Logic’s Processors, SoC Infrastructure and NVM Solutions business units Virage Logic was acquired by Synopsys in September 2010. Prior to this, Dr. Yankin served as Vice President of Actel’s Advanced Applications and System Solutions, where he lead Actel’s new architecture design, IP and MPU business units, system and hardware tools and product validation departments. He was also responsible for leading Actel’s embedded FPGA, embedded processor and DSP activities.
Previously, Dr. Yankin served as the director of the department of electronic systems and microsystems of FZI (Forschungszentrum Informatik), and held senior positions at the Institute of Computer Aided Circuit Design and Informatik Forum in Germany, where he lead international hardware/software co-design projects.
Dr. Yankin has authored more than 100 papers in refereed publications. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rheinisch Westfaellische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) in Aachen, Germany and a Dr. Ing. degree summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in Karlsruhe, Germany.