V S BALASUBRAMANIAN
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Career Summary
Determined and result-oriented ASIC Design Engineer offering an
experience of 3+ years in Leading ASIC Design & IP Solutions Company.
With a experiential record I aspire to build a career with leading
corporate encompassing committed & dedicated people, which would help me
to harness my entire potential, skill sets, qualifications and creativity
for the growth and success of the organization.
Key Competencies and Skills
Core Competencies
. Digital design, memories, RTL, STA, validation of the timing reports,
SI analysis,
Physical design, Synthesis, Equivalence checks, Physical verification.
. DFT scan stitching and scan insertion.
. Hands on experience tools: Icc compiler, DC-Turbo and DC synthesis,
LEC, Formal Verification, Star Extraction, Calibre, Primetime, Magma
Talus, Syntest turbo.
Technical Skills
. Detailed Conversance with the Synopsys Physical Design flow.
. Detailed Conversance with the Magma Physical Design Flow
. EDA Tools: Detail knowledge of IC Compiler, Synopsys Integrated Floor-
planning, Place & Route Solution, Primetime, Static Timing Analysis
tool from Synopsys and STAR-RCXT, Magma-Talus, Formality, LEC,
Calibre, FE, CLP
. Experience of working on 65, 45nm, 32nm technology nodes.
. Programming and Scripting Languages: C, Perl, Tcl.
Ingenious problem finder, with capacities to lucratively point out errors
in early stages to avoid time/cost expenditures. Innovative and
exceptionally creative to foster ideas that impel the organization towards
a result-oriented direction. Impeccable management and leadership skills
with abilities to work independently as well as a team driven by new
challenges and adapting to any cultural and business environments.
Professional experience
Total Experience 3+ years
. As a Design Engineer, I run RTL2GDS, pin assignment for multi-million
gate SoCs.
. Have been through multiple design tapeouts on 65, 40nm & 28nm nodes.
. Perform floor planning, placement, CTS, routing, timing closure,
correlation, signal integrity analysis and physical verification.
. Have a Deep understanding of hierarchical/timing driven layout
methodologies for multi mode multi corner implementation on 65,40nm
technology nodes.
. Carry out Lower power implementation and simultaneous Multi mode multi
corner timing closure.
1. March, 2012-till date
Working as ASIC-Physical Design Engineer at Blackpepper Technologies
Project Name: Thorin
Team size: 5
Technology details: 28nm
. Implemented Multi display sub system of total 1100k instances and 105
memory count using FE Encounter for floorplanning and synopsis ICC
compiler for implementation.
. Performed congestion and timing driven placement.
. Worked on different CTS techniques to meet the previous insertion delays
and balance the skew.
. Routing and post-routing optimization for timing optimization using icc.
. Correlated the signoff Primetime results with the timing results in icc
. Performed Static timing analysis with Primetime/SI
. Hands on experience with the clp .
Project Name: G.hn
Team size: 3
Technology details: 65nm
. Implemented 1 block (400MHz) of total 500k instances using synopsis ICC
compiler from netlist to GDSII.
. Performed congestion and timing driven placement.
. Worked on different CTS techniques to meet the previous insertion delays
of taped out database
. Routing and post-routing optimization for timing optimization using icc.
. Correlated the signoff Primetime results with the timing results in icc
. Performed Static timing analysis with Primetime/SI
. Assisted on the top level DRC correlation issues across magma(previous
taped out database),icc and caliber
. Assisted on the top level max net length fixing of the data and clock
nets
2. Sep, 2010-Feb, 2012
Working as ASIC Design Engineer at Uniquify Inc
Project Name: Lahaina
Technology details: 65nm
. Implemented 3 blocks (500MHz) of total 2.1 million instances using Talus
from netlist to
GDSII.
. Performed Floor plan/Power plan by debugging congestion issues in the
design through
different floor plans, macro placements.
. Performed congestion and timing driven placement.
. Routing and post-routing optimization for timing optimization using
Talus.
. Correlated the signoff Primetime results with the timing results in
Talus Vortex
. Performed Static timing analysis with Primetime/SI
Project Name: Velocity3
Technology details: 40nm
. Implemented 5 blocks (600MHz) of total 3.5 million instances using Talus
from netlist to
GDSII.
. Performed Floor plan/Power plan by debugging congestion issues in the
design through different floor plans, macro placements.
. Performed block level Power and IR drop analysis
. Performed congestion and timing driven placement.
. Routing and post-routing optimization for timing optimization using
Talus.
. Correlated the signoff Primetime results with the timing results in
Talus Vortex
. Performed Static timing analysis with Primetime/SI.
Project Name: Xingtera
Technology details: 32nm
. Implemented 3 blocks (630MHz) of total 2 million instances using Talus
from netlist to GDSII.
. Performed Floor plan/Power plan by debugging congestion issues in the
design through
. different floor plans, macro placements with the design engineer
. Performed congestion and timing driven placement.
. Routing and post-routing optimization for timing optimization using
Talus.
. Performed parasitic extraction with Star RC
. Correlated the signoff Primetime results with the timing results in
Talus Vortex
. Performed Static timing analysis with Primetime/SI
3. Jan, 2010-Aug,2010
Intern at Intel technologies pvt ltd. India
Academic Qualifications
. MSP-MVD/M Tech in Microelectronics and VLSI Design, IIIT Pune.
. B.Tech - ECE (Electronics and Communication Engineering), STIET, JNTU,
Hyderabad.
Other interest and activities
. Organized corporate functions like Annual Day and Family Day.
. Organize the charity fund to orphans and disabled children's with the
help of friends and colleagues.
. Bike riding and exploit new places locally.