Why AI Is Changing Both the Chips We Build and the Way, We Build Them: AI-Driven Chip Design- Part -1
AI-driven chip design means two things: building processors specifically for Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads and
Prasanna Venkatesan Kesavan is Associate Director and Head of the Chennai Design Centre at eInfochips (An Arrow Company), where he leads ASIC operations and end-to-end silicon development programs spanning RTL-to-GDSII, post-silicon validation, firmware, embedded software, and system engineering. With more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, he has worked across aerospace, automotive, networking, and AI domains, driving complex SoC, IP verification, and system-level design initiatives.
Prasanna specializes in SoC and IP verification, SystemC-based modeling, virtual platform development, functional safety, automotive semiconductor architectures, and large-scale engineering program management. Throughout his career, he has held technical and leadership roles at eInfochips, HCL Technologies, Intel, Broadcom, Infineon Technologies, and the Aeronautical Development Agency, contributing to the development and verification of advanced semiconductor and embedded systems.
An active contributor to the semiconductor community, Prasanna has served in multiple leadership positions with DVCon India, including General Chair, Vice Chair, and Technical Program Committee member. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Madras and a PGCBM in Business Management from XLRI Jamshedpur.
AI-driven chip design means two things: building processors specifically for Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads and
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