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{{Infobox person
| name = Suhas Patil
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1944}}
| alma_mater = [[IIT Kharagpur]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br>[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] ([[Master of Science|MS]], [[PhD]])
| known_for = Founder of [[Cirrus Logic]]
| children = [[DJ Patil]]
}}

'''Suhas S. Patil''' (born 1944) is an Indian-American entrepreneur, academic, and [[venture capitalist]]. He founded [[Cirrus Logic]], a [[Fabless manufacturing|fabless]] [[semiconductor]] company. Patil's work has covered [[computer architecture]], [[Parallel computing|parallel processing]] computers, [[very-large-scale integration]] devices, and [[integrated circuit design]] automation software.<ref>{{cite web|title=Executive Profile: Suhas S. Patil|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=558566&privcapId=26515|website=Bloomberg|accessdate=18 August 2017}}</ref> He also serves on the boards of [[The Tech Museum]] and the [[World Affairs Councils of America|World Affairs Council of Northern California]]. He is known for describing the "[[cigarette smokers problem]]" for [[concurrent computing]] in 1971.<ref>{{cite web|title=ThreadMentor: The Cigarette Smokers Problem|url=https://pages.mtu.edu/~shene/NSF-3/e-Book/SEMA/TM-example-smoker.html|website=ThreadMentor|publisher=Michigan Technological University|accessdate=18 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The cigarette smokers|url=https://blog.ksub.org/bytes/2016/01/31/the-cigarette-smokers/|website=Marcelo Bytes|accessdate=18 August 2017|date=31 January 2016}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Patil grew up in [[Jamshedpur]], India. His father was the first person in the family to go to a university and get an engineering degree and worked at [[Tata Steel]] while Patil was growing up.<ref name="oralhist">{{cite web|last1=Fairbairn|first1=Douglas|title=Oral History of Dr. Suhas Patil|url=http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2013/01/102702410-05-01-acc.pdf|website=Computer History Museum|accessdate=18 August 2017|date=2 August 2010}}</ref> Patil went to study intermediate science at [[St. Xavier's College, Kolkata]] and then to the [[Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur]] for his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering.<ref name="oralhist" /> He attended the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] for his masters and doctorate degrees, graduating in 1967 and 1970 respectively.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rohilla|first1=Manmohan|title=Scholars Profile: Dr. Suhas Patil – IIT Kharagpur|url=http://iitscholar.com/dr-suhas-patil-iit-kharagpur/|website=IIT-Scholar|accessdate=18 August 2017|language=en|date=18 December 2014}}</ref>

== Career ==
From 1970 until 1975, Patil was assistant professor of electrical engineering at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. While at MIT, he also served as assistant director of [[Project MAC]] (Multi-Access Computer), the largest computer science laboratory in the U.S, where the timesharing computer system was developed. At MIT, he worked in the area of computer architecture and related topics. As a gift to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Patil awarded $1.5 million for the construction of the Suhas and Jayashree Patil Conference Center at the [[Stata Center]]. From 1977 to 1981, he was a member of the faculty at the [[University of Utah]] School of Computing.<ref>{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.cs.utah.edu/about/history/|website=School of Computing|publisher=University of Utah|accessdate=17 August 2017}}</ref> Patil founded Patil Systems, Inc., in 1981 in [[Salt Lake City]], which was renamed as [[Cirrus Logic]] in 1984 when it moved to Silicon Valley. He has been the Chairman of Cirrus Logic since its founding and [[Emeritus]] since 1997. He is currently the Chairman of Digité, Inc. and Chairman of the Board of Cradle Technologies. Patil co-founded a global not for profit organization, the [[TiE]] – The Ind-US Entrepreneurs in 1992 with successful entrepreneurs and businessowners of [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin|Indian origin]] in Silicon Valley to mentor entrepreneurs and young companies. He served as TiE's first president.

==Personal life==
Patil's son is [[DJ Patil]], who was the first Chief Data Scientist of the [[United States Office of Science and Technology Policy]].

==See also==
* [[Cigarette smokers problem]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070124164818/http://www.alumni.iitkgp.ernet.in/newsite/life1.php?Sl=16 Biography in IIT Kharagpur Alumni Directory]

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