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P.T. Patel, founder, executive vice president and CTO, brings over 30 years of microprocessor physical design expertise to the company. Before founding Pyxis, PT spent three years at Sun Microsystems where he was Senior Distinguished Engineer, responsible for setting the vision for microprocessor tools and methodologies for 65nm & below technologies. Prior to Sun, PT was with IBM for 27 years where he served as Distinguished Engineer and led the physical design effort for the Power PC family of microprocessors. He developed structured design methodologies targeted towards reducing total time to market and provided technical leadership for physical design tools development at IBM. PT is a recipient of Corporate and Outstanding Technical Achievement awards from IBM for designs, tools and methodology innovations for Power and PowerPC microprocessors. He received the Chairman’s Award at Sun for CAD tools and methodology innovations. He has been granted 16 U.S. patents and has several publications on chip design, tools and methodology. PT has an MS degree in electrical engineering from University of Connecticut. | 