Having a roadmap doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll end up at the destination you had in mind. But that can be a good thing, Sameer has learned.

A case in point is LBC7, TI’s previous-generation process technology for advanced analog. It was originally slated for devices operating at 20 volts or less, but partway into development Sameer and the team identified a growing need for higher-voltage applications.

That spurred several innovations to enable the voltage boost, and the higher voltage proved key to LBC7’s success: More than five years after its introduction, it’s still run in several fabs around the world.

Seemingly a natural engineer, Sameer enjoyed building things from an early age. He likes the whole notion of making things that solve problems. And he draws inspiration from trying to anticipate future problems and then devise preemptive solutions.

A TI Fellow and the manager of High Voltage Component Development, he thinks sensor technology is a particularly fertile area right now. Indeed he believes the integration of low-power silicon-based sensing with digital and power processing will open up a multitude of interesting applications.

Recent trips to Florida and Alaska betray his affinity for travel, and he enjoys playing a variety of sports, especially tennis and cricket. Currently working on next-generation LBC and other high-voltage technologies, he also likes reading about the latest developments in astronomy, and that fuels what he thinks might have made an interesting career if he hadn’t become an electrical engineer: writing science fiction.