Nikhil Vemuganti

**** ********* ****, #****, **********, Texas 75080

Email: aca5ja@r.postjobfree.com PH: 703-***-****

OBJECTIVE:

Seeking Entry level position in the field of RF & Microwave engineering, Analog IC Design and Verification

SUMMARY:

• 8+ months of professional experience in the fields of RF/Microwave, Analog and Digital Circuitry Designing, manual and

automation testing.

• Solid fundamentals in RF CMOS implementation of circuit building blocks including LNA, mixers, VCO, LO, and GaAs PA.

• Good Knowledge on RF measurement equipments and their automation, Electronic CAD tools.

• Good knowledge and working experience of using high frequency simulation tools like AWR Microwave Office, ADS, FEKO,

Cadence Virtuoso.

• Ability to analyze mathematically.

• Highly motivated to learn new methodologies and ability to learn fast.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

RF IC design Intern, ANADIGICS, New Jersey June 2013 Aug 2013

Summary:

• A Dual band Cellular & PCS LTE 3.4 V Linear HVHBT Power Amplifier design, simulation in ADS and laboratory

measurements has been carried out.

• Experienced in measurement of various third generation (3G) specifications such as gain, power added efficiency (PAE),

and P1 dB for the power Amplifier.

• Performed Load pull–Source pull measurements for ideal matching impedances, required to maximize power transfer,

output power, gain and efficiency using Maury Microwave.

• Experienced in designing matching networks for a dual stage power amplifier optimized for output power, efficiency and

linearity in a 50 Ω system.

RF Engineer Intern, BlackBerry (RIM) Jan 2013 May 2013

Summary:

• Gained experience on low profile, small antenna Design; Array, Transmission lines, RF matching, Filters, Power dividers and

other RF circuits, GPS outdoor testing.

• Designed the schematic, layout, and tested RF performance in conduction/radiation.

• Experienced in Antenna measurement: Anechoic chamber (3 m Howland and Satimo chamber), S parameters, VSWR,

Efficiency, TRP, TIS, Gain, Radiation patterns.

• Experience in bench prototyping, soldering, saws, drill and hand tools.

EDUCATION:

MSEE – University Of Texas at Dallas December 2013

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Bachelor of Engineering,Electronics and Communication Engineering May 2011

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Kakatiya University – Warangal, India G.P.A 3.55/4.0

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Tools: AWR MWO, ADS, FEKO, Visio Cadence Virtuoso, VCS Xilinx ISE simulator

• Equipments: Agilent Vector Network Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, Frequency Generators, Signal Generators

• Programming Languages: C, Perl, Verilog, VHDL

• Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

RELEVANT COURSEWORK:

RF and Microwave System Engineering, RF IC Design, RF and Microwave Circuit Design, RF Engineering for wireless Communication,

Application Specific Integrated Circuits, Analog IC Design, Electromagnetic and Transmission Lines, Antenna and Wave Propagation,

Introduction to wireless Communications (U.G)

ACADEMIC PROJECTS:

RF Microwave Design & Measurements:

• Designed, fabricated, and tested RF components, including Power Divider, Directional Coupler, Filters, RF Switches,

Amplifiers, Oscillator, and Antenna

• Mastered skills in all phases of RF Design Cycle, including analytical design, CAD layout, simulation, fabrication,

measurement, test, and fine tune.

• Instruments: Network Analyzer, Spectrum Analyzer, RF Power Meter, RF Power Sensor.

• CAD Tools: AWR, HP Agilent ADS

Nikhil Vemuganti

Design of front end RFIC receiver system for LTE technology on mobile handsets

Designed a 4G LTE Receiver Including the Cascode LNA, Double Balanced Mixer and VCO in 0.18 um using ADS .

Designed a System Level 60GHz Radar Channel and 14GHz Satellite Link Using AWR.

Design of Low Power wireless Sensor Network:

Design of low power WLAN sensor transceiver operating in 2.2 2.8 GHz and the satellite communication operating in 5.2 5.8

GHz using AWR, MWO VSS simulations were performed to analyze nominal and worst case cascaded gain, noise figure, P1dB

and OIP3.

Dual band switched channel receive amplifier module:

Designed two stage amplifier that can switch between two frequency bands (2.9 3.1 GHz) using AWR MWO. Designed switch,

filters, power combiner and matching networks for transistor, performed stability analysis, measured S parameters and

determined other performance characteristics.

Design of an Operational Amplifier:

Designed a differential input and single ended output amplifier using Cadence, The amplifier was powered from a 1.8 volts power

supply and a current reference of 10μA. The amplifier was designed using CMOS 0.35 μm technology. The OPAMP was

designed with a Voltage gain of 85 dB, Slew Rate of 10V/µS, CMRR of 80 dB,

GBW 15 MHZ (10 pF load Capacitance), PM of 60 while maintaining power dissipation to be less than 0.3mW

Mini Stereo Digital Audio Processor design:

Developed specifications and designed the architecture for programmable FIR filter. Implemented RTL logic in Verilog and

synthesized it using Design Compiler. PnR is achieved using Cadence Encounter SOC. Setup and Hold violations were fixed by

static timing analysis and optimization using CTE in Encounter.

Detailed Course work:

RF and Microwave Circuits: Analysis and design of RF and microwave circuits. Topics include impedance matching, network theory,

S parameters, transmission line media (waveguide, coax, microstrip, stripline, coplanar waveguide, etc.) and passive component

design (power dividers, couplers, switches, attenuators, phase shifters, etc.). Industry standard microwave CAD tools are used.

RF Integrated Circuit Design: Introduction to RF and wireless systems; basic concepts of RF design: linearity, distortion, (P1dB,

IIP3), sensitivity, noise figure; RF passives: Q factors, impedance transformation, matching network; transceiver architectures: low

noise amplifier design; mixer design; oscillator design; basic architectures of power amplifiers. Use of Agilent ADS for design project

Radiofrequency and Microwave Systems Engineering: Review of RF and microwave systems, such as cellular, point to point

radio, satellite, RFID and RADAR. Topics include: system architectures, noise & distortion, antennas & propagation, transmission lines

& network analysis, active & passive components, modulation techniques and specification flow down.

Analog Integrated Circuit Design: Introduction to MOS transistor, CMOS technology and analog circuit modeling. Basic analog

circuits: MOS switches, active resistors, current sources, current mirrors. Complex circuits: comparators and operational amplifiers.

Use of CAD tools to layout and simulate analog circuits.

Application Specific Integrated Circuit Design: Synthesis and implementation of an ASIC digital signal processing (DSP)

chip.

ACTIVITIES/AWARDS:

• Active Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2007 Present.

• Student coordinator, ELECTROCOM’11, 12, Kakatiya University, India.

• Participated in National Level Inter School Olympiad, Mathematics and Won a third Price.

AVAILABILITY:

VISA: F1 Available from December 2013 Open to relocation

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