Suhas Patil

Suhas Patil
Born1944 (age 79–80)
Alma materIIT Kharagpur (B.Tech.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, PhD)
Known forFounder of Cirrus Logic
ChildrenDJ Patil

Suhas S. Patil (born 1944) is an Indian-American entrepreneur, academic, and venture capitalist. He founded Cirrus Logic, a fabless semiconductor company. Patil's work has covered computer architecture, parallel processing computers, very-large-scale integration devices, and integrated circuit design automation software.[1] He also serves on the boards of The Tech Museum and the World Affairs Council of Northern California. He is known for describing the "cigarette smokers problem" for concurrent computing in 1971.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Executive Profile: Suhas S. Patil". Bloomberg. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  2. ^ "ThreadMentor: The Cigarette Smokers Problem". ThreadMentor. Michigan Technological University. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  3. ^ "The cigarette smokers". Marcelo Bytes. 31 January 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2017.