Alan Hendrickson, vice president of engineering for Silicon Labs’ Internet of Things (IoT) products, drives the company’s IoT IC execution. He is responsible for the delivery of new integrated circuits for the company’s optical and environmental sensors, microcontrollers, multiprotocol wireless SoCs, and wireless MCUs and transceivers, including those supporting Thread, ZigBee, Bluetooth, and proprietary sub-GHz RF connectivity.
Alan joined Silicon Labs in 1999 as a chip design engineer, and over the years has contributed to the development of innovative wireline and wireless communications technologies, such as Silicon Labs’ CMOS Direct Access Arrangement (DAA), ISOmodem, and TV tuner ICs. Alan served in management for Silicon Labs’ digital signal processing group since 2012, with design centers in Austin, Sunnyvale, Oslo, and Rennes, France. Alan earned a BS in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University and holds 47 patents in IC design and communication systems technology.