Avnet Silica's Space Special

Minal Sawant is the Systems Architect and Marketing lead for Space Applications at Xilinx, an American technology company that is the inventor of FPGA, programmable SoC and now ACAP striving to build the Adaptable and Intelligent world. In her current role she drives the business strategy and technical solutions and drives enablement of new generation space platforms and architectures.

She has supported space and high reliability markets for over 20 years. Previously Minal worked as the chief of staff to the Marketing Vice President at Intel PSG, acting as a strategist to implement and execute key initiatives focused on growing the FPGA business. She started her career as Failure Analysis Engineer at Actel (now Microchip), followed by product engineering management roles driving MIL-STD-883B qualifications for Military, Space, Avionics and Automotive markets based on Antifuse and Flash products.

In her Marketing and Business Development roles at Microsemi and Cypress Semiconductor she drove definition, execution and introduction of new products to the Space market.
Minal holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Oklahoma, Norman.

Oscar Mansilla is the Business Development Manager for the Radiation Hardened Communications product line at Renesas, which was previously the Intersil High Reliability product line. He is responsible for developing the next generation of radiation hardened power management and precision analog ICs. Oscar holds a BSEE and MSEE from the University of Central Florida with focus on power electronics. And, he currently is attending the University of Florida to earn his MBA.

Based in Grenoble, France, Andrew provides Field Application Support in the EMEA and India region for Teledyne e2v’s range of Data Converters, Microprocessors, R.F. and Power conversion products. He has a wide knowledge of the use of Teledyne e2v’s solutions within the Aerospace and Defence Industry and of the varied requirements in the ‘New’ and ‘Traditional’ Space sectors.

His application knowledge is a result of over 30 years’ experience in the design of electronic systems ranging from RF military communications and wide area secure networks to x-ray imaging and laser spectroscopy.

Andrew also holds an MSc in Electronics from the University of Manchester U.K. and a BSc in Physics from Loughborough University, U.K.