Dr. Samuel Sheng co-founded Telegent Systems in 2004. A world-renowned expert in CMOS RF and DSP development, Dr. Sheng has extensive experience in architecting and designing leading-edge CMOS RF and DSP chips for silicon tuners, ADSL transceivers, magnetic recording and DVD RF/servo technologies. He has a proven track record of sampling first silicon for all the chips developed under his leadership. Prior to co-founding Telegent Systems, Dr. Sheng was at LSI Logic and responsible for architecting and implementing a series of silicon RF tuners for video-band applications, targeted for cable modems, analog/digital video over cable, and voice over IP as well as highly integrated DVD front-end technologies. Before LSI Logic, Dr. Sheng co-led the ADSL front-end (AFE) development effort at Datapath Systems, Inc.

Dr. Sheng was awarded Inventor of the Year at LSI Logic in 2002 and 2003 and was named the 2002 Distinguished Engineer at LSI Logic. He has authored numerous papers and publications on various topics such as low-power CMOS RF wireless systems and low-power CMOS digital design. He has been awarded seven patents in the areas of RF tuner and DSL modem design. Dr. Sheng received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering, and the B.A. degree in applied mathematics, all from the University of California, Berkeley.