Prasanth is a functional safety architect for C2000 MCUs at Texas Instruments. He joined TI in 2005. He has worked as a DFT lead and now focuses on IP architecture and functional safety. He is a TUV SUD certified Functional Safety Professional and is part of the United States Technical Advisory Group (USTAG) for ISO26262 which undertakes the development and revision of the automotive functional safety standard. His primary interests include designing of low cost reliable systems, design of on-line test techniques, etc. He has six patents (granted/filed) and twenty six publications covering IEEE conferences, vendor conferences and TI internal symposiums including one best paper award. He holds a master’s degree from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.