Education

 

Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville,

                                                                                                                                                       August 2006-Present

GPA: 3.41/4 (18/30 credit hours)

 

Graduate Coursework:

·         VLSI circuits

·         Advanced VLSI design

·         Computer Architecture

·         Bipolar Analog IC design

·         MOS Analog IC design.

 

Academic Projects:         

·         Design of a Mixed Mode Phase Locked Loop.

·         Design of a Dual Supply 4-bit Carry Propagate Adder.

·         Design of a low cost, low power & fast 6*6 bit CMOS SRAM.

·         Design of a Fifth Order Chebychev Low Pass filter.

·         Design of a 3-bit DAC.

·         “Effective branch  prediction using future bits”, implementation of a branch prediction technique using history and future bits

                                  

Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication, Vellore Institute of Technology, TamilNadu, India                

                                                                                                                                                August 2001 - May 2005
CGPA: 9.26/10
Project              : Enhancements for the FLOSWITCH.
Company           : National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, India.
Summary           : Re-design and Incorporation of optimized data transfer algorithms in FLOSWITCH®, a data            

                          transfer hub used in India’s Latest parallel computer FLOSOLVER Mk6 for faster transfer of  

                          data between their Processing Elements, and a floating point unit to combine the results of the       

                          processing elements all using VHDL . The redesigned FLOSWITCH® achieved four-fold

                          increase in performance from its previous versions.

 

Work Experience

 

Research Assistant, the Centre for High- Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC), Present

Project             :  “Device Architectures and Tradeoffs”, with focus on FPLD architectures and kernel 

                           development for FPOAs (Field Programmable Object Arrays)

 

Design Engineer (Trainee), Encompass Electronics Private Limited, Bangalore, India, August 2005 - July 2006

Project           : Development of a full digital closed loop drive controller board for use with steel rolling mill class

                large DC motors.

Summary        : C-code development and compilation of 8051 micro controller (C8051-F-020) section on the 

                       board for interface, for user display and field programming of loop parameters. C-code                      

                       development and compilation of C8051-F-120 section of the board for PI loop computations                

                       and interface with ADC and ASIC on board. Software interface front end configured with

                       Visual Basic and board re-design after testing.

 

Project           : Camera Control with C8051- F- 020

Summary         :C-code development and compilation of 8051 micro controller (C8051-F-020) section on the

                       board for Camera Control.Software interface front end configured with Visual Basic.

                       (a).Complete code development for GUI interface. (b).Serial port interface to control board.

 

Internship

 

·   Completed training in Verilog HDL front end Design flow and Verilog hardware modeling, and modeled a

    period counter using Verilog HDL, Encompass Electronics Private Limited, Bangalore, India , May 2003

·   Underwent training in Mobile Switching Centre, Bharath Sanchar Nigam Limited, Salem, India , May 2004

 

Technical Skills

 

Excellence     - C, C++, VB6, Verilog HDL, VHDL
Experience    - Xilinx ISE, Aldec HDL, 21xxADSP, Microprocessors (8085, 8086) and Microcontrollers 

                          (C8051F020, C8051F120), 21xx ADSP, Cygnal IDE, KEIL, Simplescalar, Cadence, UNIX

Exposure       - MATLAB, PSPICE

 

Areas Of Interest

 

·         VLSI Systems Design

·         Embedded Systems

·         Computer Architecture