Navraj Nandra joined Barcelona Design in June 2001 as Director of Applications from Austria Mikro Systeme International, where he was U.S. Design Center Manager supporting ASIC and COT designs in high voltage CMOS, SiGe and BiCMOS technologies.
Mr. Nandra has worked in the semiconductor industry since the mid 80's as an analog IC designer for Philips Semiconductors, EM-Marin (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Thorn EMI Central Research Labs (UK). He has authored papers in A/D converter design and RFID design. In 1996 he was awarded the best poster for "A Contact-less Read/Write Transponder using Low Power EEPROM technology" at ESSCIRC in Neuchatel.
Mr. Nandra holds a Master of Science degree in microelectronic systems design from Brunel University and a postgraduate diploma in process technology from Middlesex Polytechnic, both in the UK.