Engineer Software Design .Net Engineering Development

Anil Tipirneni

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San Diego, CA 92130

Phone: 256-***-**** Email: ****.*********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a full time position as an embedded/firmware engineer in a stimulating and challenging environment, where

professional growth and career advancement can be achieved by utilizing my engineering background and technical skills.

SKILLS

• Real Time OS: uC/OS-II, ThreadX, uVelocity

• Languages: C, C++, ASM

• Packages: Borland C++, Visual Studio .NET

• Hardware Design Skills: VHDL

• Hardware CAD Tools: HW Synthesis (Design Compiler, Leonardo, Xilinx), Modelsim

• Embedded System: Xilinx Microblaze Embedded Soft Processor, PC/104 EDK, IAR Embedded Workbench,

Green Hills Multi IDE, Zigbee

• Wireless Technologies: WiMAX(4G wireless)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Cypress Systems (October 2008-Present)

Senior Staff Firmware Engineer

• Responsible for design and implementation of firmware for a battery powered wireless gauge reader using the

IEEE 802.11 protocol as the backbone.

• Designed and implemented the communication protocol between three processors ( ARM7, NEC LCD controller

and MoBL processor) that share the same communication bus.

• Implemented a command parser module in C++.

Environment: C, C++, ARM7, NEC, MoBL, SPI, I2C, ADC, Green Hills Multi, uVelocity, Visual Studio .NET

NextWave Wireless, Inc (October 2007-October 2008)

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

• Design and implementation of the control logic of the PHY layer (Layer 1) for a WiMAX base station, which

include:

- Design and Implement the operation of the Forward error correction (FEC), Logical to Physical

mapper and the Protocol Data Unit Delineation Process hardware modules.

- Generation of the Ranging codes for the Ranging Hardware module.

- Implementation of the MIMO (STTD and SM) concepts as part of the Wave2 features for the IEEE 802.16.

- Design of an API for PHY/MAC messaging protocol.

• Implemented a regression test module in C++.

• Working with debugging tools on the target – GHS JTAG and Logic Analyzer

• Documented all the interfaces of the control implementation.

Environment: C, C++, 32 bit microprocessor, Green Hills Multi, ThreadX, Visual Studio .NET

Plantronics, Inc (Sept 2005- October 2007)

Embedded Software Engineer

• Design and implementation of the software for an ARM9 enabled amplified telephone for the hard of hearing

community

• Designed communication protocols to communicate with the ARM9 core, which include:

- SPI communication with the TI 5409 DSP

- SPI communication with the 128X62 LCD

- I2C communication with a 128K EEPROM

- PWM generation for DTMF dialing in low power mode

- Serial communication with a Zigbee master

- USB communication with PC

- Interrupt driven GPIO communication with a matrix keypad, audio amplifiers and encoders.

• Developed a multitasked uC/OS-II RTOS layer in the software for an efficient system.

• Developed protocols for a Zigbee (IEEE 802.15.4) system used in home automation network.

• Developed a windows application for USB communication with the PC USB port for reprogramming the flash.

• Documented all the interface reviews of the technology.

Environment: C, ARM9, ARM7, 32 bit microprocessor, IAR embedded workbench, Visual Studio .NET, Jlink Emulator

Embedded Software Engineer Southern Vision Systems, Inc (May 2004-Aug 2005)

• Designed software for a high-speed imaging system SpecterView that performs the functions of a suite of sensors

by emulating multiple analog photo detectors such as a fast photodiode, quad detector, line scan camera, and an

RS-170 video camera.

• Designed a customized MAchine Vision Inspection System (MAVIS) capable of high frame rate product

inspection using neural networks and pattern matching for object rotation or scale using the FFT implementation.

• Developed a software interface for MAVIS on a PC/104 SBC interface under Embedded Linux Platform.

• Developed a USB interface with cypress EZ-USB FX2 on the camera and the host computer.

• Documented the performance of the camera systems to facilitate the future development of the high speed

devices.

Environment: Borland C++, Visual Studio .NET, PC/104, Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, Mathematica, DSP,

USB interfaces, Jungo USB Development Kit, LibUSB

Research Associate Nano and Micro Devices Laboratory (NMDL), UAH (Jan 2002-Apr 2004)

• Setup, Maintenance and Troubleshoot the Nano/Micro Fabrication equipment in the clean room.

• Designed the Nano and Micro Devices Laboratory (NMDL) website (http://nmdl.uah.edu/).

• Maintained the samba file sharing protocol that provides file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients in the group.

• Maintained security via periodic software patches, configuration updates, and remote administration via SSH.

Environment: Macromedia studio MX, PHP, MySQL, Apache, Perl, Windows, Macintosh OSX 10.2.x, Networking

Research Assistant Real Time Operating Systems Laboratory, UAH (Aug 2002 – Dec 2002)

• Designed test environment to analyze the performance of individual processors in Motorola VME multi

processor system based on VxWorks RTOS.

• Implemented Ethernet based inter processor communication system on Motorola VME multi processor system.

• Analyzed performance of VxWorks system targeted to Motorola VME processors with Ethernet backbone, in

terms of throughput and bandwidth of Ethernet linkage.

Environment: VxWorks RTOS, C, Tornado simulation toolkit, POSIX threads, Ethernet

Design Engineer Naval Science and Technological Laboratories (NSTL), India (Jan 2001-May 2001)

• Developed a synthesizable VHDL model of an 8255 Programmable Peripheral Interface module in mode 1.

• Developed a general and reusable VHDL test bench framework for the VHDL model to enable easy regression

testing.

• Performed synthesis, place and route, and timing closure of the VHDL module on a Xilinx XC9572XL CPLD

using Xilinx Foundation Series 3.x.

• Documented the performance and results of the module functioning to facilitate the future development for

underwater weapon technology research.

Environment: VHDL, Xilinx FS 3.x, Xilinx XC9572XL CPLD prototyping board, Windows 9X /NT

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, 2003

University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama. GPA 3.74/4.0

Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, 2001

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India.

CONFERENCES and CERTIFICATION

• Completed a certificate course tilted “DSP for practicing engineers using the TI C6713” conducted by

Georgia Institute of Technology

• Completed a training course tilted “Z-Stack Developers workshop” conducted by Texas Instruments

• Attended the Embedded Systems (2007), Photonics West (2005) and Optics & Photonics (2004) Conferences.

NOTES

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