Srini leads design of ultra-low power memory for TI’s microcontroller business. His innovations in low power and energy efficiency are transforming electronics across many areas, including healthcare, consumer electronics, safety, security and more.

Srini says one key to delivering innovation is to look beyond immediate problems to ensure that the proposed solutions can address all versions of them in the future. He also believes strongly that innovation thrives in environments, where people can take risks, with minimal constraints, on ideas that have been proven to have merit. Srini experienced this personally when he developed an embedded processor chip for the medical market that can detect epileptic seizures in patients. The chip achieved the lowest power consumption ever reported at the time.

Today, the state-of-the-art IP from that processor serves as an enabling technology in TI’s microcontroller platform that slashes power by 50 percent over any microcontroller in the industry - and brings consumers closer to a battery-free world. Srini says that it has been very exciting to see how his innovation -- designed to address one problem -- has played a tremendous role across so many areas.

Srini has turned his attention to next-generation memory technologies that push the envelope and get to the next level of lower power consumption. But, he says the biggest challenge the industry faces today is limits with silicon scaling. The Holy Grail, according to Srini, is to find that replacement for CMOS. Doing so is an innovation in itself, but it will also open the door to innovations that we can’t even begin to imagine.