GAYATHRI SAMPATHKUMAR, M.S.

E-mail:abibr8@r.postjobfree.com; Phone: 847-***-****

OBJECTIVE

Seeking full-time position in Analog/Mixed Signal and Digital Circuit

Design and testing

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

. 2 years experience in design and analysis of high performance

analog, digital and mixed signal circuits

. Strong academic record and extensive course and project work

experience

EDUCATION

The Ohio State University

Columbus, OH

M.S, Electrical and Computer Engineering, June 2010

GPA: 3.65/4.0

Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Coimbatore, India

B.E, Electronics and Communication Engineering, May 2008

GPA: 9.75/10.0

RELEVANT COURSEWORK

Circuits: Advanced Analog Integrated Circuit Design, Low Power Mixed

Signal VLSI Design, Analog Integrated Circuit Design, Computer Aided

Design and Analysis of VLSI Circuits, Digital CMOS VLSI Design, IC

Testing and Measurements, Ultra-low Power Reliable Multicore

Architecture, Digital Signal Processing

GRADUATE RESEARCH WORK

Expected Tape Out (March 2011): -0.5um ONC5 process, A 10b 30MS/s

Pipeline ADC

TECHNICAL SKILLS

CAD Tools-Cadence (Spectre, Analog Design Environment and Virtuoso

Layout Editor), ModelSim, TopSPICE, Altera Quartus II, Xilinx, IRSIM,

Magic, MATLAB with Simulink, LabVIEW

Programming Languages- C, Perl, Verilog, VHDL, VerilogA, Linux and

Windows operating system, MS Office

SELECTED PROJECTS

10 bit, 30MS/s Pipeline Analog to Digital Converter

- Designed a fully differential switched capacitor circuit in 0.18um CMOS

technology with 1.5b/stage resolution

- OTA was implemented as a fully differential folded cascode amplifier

with 92dB DC gain and 400MHz Funity

10 bit, 100ksps SAR ADC for Neural Recording

- Successfully designed the ADC in TSMC 0.18 m CMOS process (transistor

level) and VerilogA

- Parasitic extraction from created and verified layout using Virtuoso

layout editor

Bandgap Reference Circuit

- Designed a bandgap reference circuit in 0.18 m CMOS process that

generates a reference voltage of 1V

- Achieved a 17ppm/c of temperature coefficient for a temperature range

of 25oC - 75oC

Mixed Signal Testing using ADS1158

- Evaluated DC and AC parameters using hardware kit ADS1158EVM

- Performed data acquisition and analysis using ADCpro evaluation

Design of Delta Sigma ADC

- Designed a first order delta sigma ADC using Matlab and Simulink

Reliability Verification Testing and Failure Analysis of CPLD

- Designed synchronous and asynchronous circuits to check circuit

reliability under low voltage operation

- Xilinx and Altera CPLDs were used for testing the operation in low

voltage regime

RTL Design of Floating Point Multiplier and Adder (ALU)

- Designed the Behavioral model for Floating Point Multiplier using VHDL

- Designed the data path for the processor fusing together the units of

ALU and the register set

Academic Work EXPERIENCE

- Graduate Teaching Assistant - Computer Assisted Problem Solving for

Business

- Graduate Student Assistant - Digital Circuit Design, Low power mixed

signal and Digital CMOS VLSI Design

HONORS

- Outstanding Electrical Engineering Student Award,Coimbatore Institute

of Technology (2008)

- University Fellowship, Coimbatore Institute of Technology (2008)

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