Dr.
Adya S. Tripathi founded Tripath as served as
President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman.
Before founding Tripath, Dr. Tripathi held a variety
of senior management an engineering positions with
AMD, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, IMP, National
Semiconductor and Vitel Communications.Dr. Tripathi
has more than 18 years of technical and management
experience. He is responsible for overseeing all
aspects of Tripath's operations and for guiding its
long-term strategies.
Tripath
Technology Inc., a 150-employee company in Santa
Clara, Calif. It was founded in 1995 by Adya S.
Tripathi, a 48-year-old engineer from the holy city
of Varanasi, India, who dreams of improving the
world’s relationship with sound.
Tripathi moved to the
United States in 1979 and worked at IBM Corp.,
Hewlett-Packard Co. and National Semiconductor
Corp., waiting for technological advances to make
his dream cost-effective.
Dr. Tripathi holds Bachelor
of Science and a Master of Science degree in
Electrical Engineering from Benaras Hindu University
in India.
He pursued graduate work at the University of
Nevada-Reno and the University of
California-Berkeley, receiving his Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering from the former in 1984. He
has also taught at the University of
California-Berkeley Extension.
Based in
Santa Clara, California, Tripath Technology Inc.
owns the proprietary technology called 1-bit Delta
Sigma Digital Audio Amplifier technology, which
combines modern advances in digital signal
processing and power processing. Tripath's current
products target audio applications with sales to
leading consumer electronic and computer companies,
such as Sony, Aiwa, Hitachi, Blaupunkt and Apple
Computer; as well as DSL communications equipment
providers, such as Alcatel, with Tripath's low power
line drivers for central office applications.
Tripathi’s
breakthrough was to vastly improve the performance
of amplifiers, which perform a key function in most
electronic devices. Amplifiers accept an incoming
signal and boost it out — through a stereo
speaker, for example. The problem is that
inexpensive amplifiers tend to distort the signal,
and expensive ones with high fidelity are clunky and
inefficient, sucking power and creating large
amounts of heat.
Tripath’s amps have
cropped up in new Blaupunkt car stereos, Apple
Computer Inc.’s Power Mac G4 Cubes, high-end Sony
Vaio computers and some late-model Dell PCs. Now his
patented system, called digital power processing, is
behind the circuitry in amplifiers that are a
fraction of the size of their predecessors, use far
less power and create much less heat. |
