Ciba Kiran

Experienced wireless/telecom professional, broad understanding of IC design, wireless systems &

software applications

aca1z8@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

-Looking for Full time opportunity in Digital design, verification and validation.

-Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering graduating May,2013.

-3 years of experience in telecom.

-Current : Software Developer at Blackberry, Texas working on LTE.

Skills:

VLSI: RTL design, verification and simulation(test), synthesis using VHDL/ Verilog

Computers and Programming: Computer Architecture, C, Java, shell and Python scripting

Computer Networks: 802.11a/b/g/n, RF transceiver architecture, OFDM, 3GPP LTE

Tools: Xilinx ISE, Cadence (Synopsys), Spectre, ModelSim, Agilent ADS.

Experience

Radio protocol Software Developer at BlackBerry

July 2013 - Present (5 months)

Supported next generation mobile devices from Blackberry before deployment.

• Power Management: Analyzing issues related to power for apps, OS process over QNX (Linux based

mobile OS), modem/radio.

• Tested modem, data, throughput and voice requirements.

• Reproduced and debugged 3G/4G L1/L2/L3 protocol issues using Qualcomm tools like QXDM, QCAT.

1 recommendation available upon request

Graduate Student at University of Florida

August 2011 - May 2013 (1 year 10 months)

High Speed 64 bit Kogge Stone Adder ASIC design(VHDL, Synopsys (Cadence) Spring

2013

• Implemented RTL design in VHDL to attain high speed in adders critical to ALUs using Synopsys.

• Minimized power by clock gating, parallelism, pipelining and transistor sizing.

6T SRAM Cell (Cadence) Fall 2012

• Built a 4 bit 6T SRAM(0.25 µm technology) using Cadence tools

• Designed the peripherals i.e. sense amplifier, precharge, write and decoder circuitry and optimized it for

timing and noise margin requirements.

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High performance DSP circuit over Xilinx FPGA (VHDL, C, Xilinx ISE) Fall 2012

• Designed and Implemented 1-D convolution system over Virtex-IV FPGA board and achieved a speedup of

16x.

• Effectively utilized pipelining, clock synchronization and memory interface techniques critical to signal

processing applications.

10 Gbps Wireless data link between Earth and Moon (ADS) Spring 2012

• Designed a wireless data link by selecting appropriate RF bands, modulation techniques, Link Budget

analysis to achieve BER of 10^-5.

• Simulated and verified the design using Agilent design toolkit.

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Performance evaluation of IEEE 802.11 networks (Ns3, Python, C++) Spring 2012

• Simulated 802.11g and 802.11b network involving access point and mobile nodes and measured throughput

at application and MAC layer using NS3 and Python.

OFDM Transceiver using DPSK for Wireless Local Area Network (Matlab) Spring 2012

• Simulated OFDM transceiver architecture for simple AWGN Gaussian channel with multipath delay spread

with the help of communication toolbox in MATLAB using DQPSK modulation.

Project Engineer at Wipro Technologies

March 2008 - July 2011 (3 years 5 months)

Motorola Inc, USA(contract) Bangalore, India (3GPP LTE, Java, C++) 2009-10

• Implemented LTE Manager Software 3GPP specifications for Fault and Performance management.

• Implemented autonomously a feature in alarm at network layer and enabled its propagation to the

application layer.

Enterprise telecom expense management system, Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India (Java, shell scripting)

2010-11

Call details records captured from enterprise level PBX were processed and analyzed to minimise telecom

expense for the company.

• Designed and implemented regressions reducing the QA cost by 60%.

• Responsible for deployment support and client presentation for a year.

2 recommendations available upon request

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Projects

Support Blackberry smartphones

July 2013 to Present

Members:Ciba Kiran, Suma Subbarao, Eric Belote, Curtis Engel, Beilei Zhang, Shabbir Raja

Supported various phone sets from Blackberry before deployment.

• Performed radio, throughput (data) and voice test cases for 4G- 3GPP & 3GPP2 devices using R&S CMW

500.

• Performed Battery life analyses using Agilent 8960 Wireless communication test box and Agilent N6705

power analyzers.

High Speed, low power 64 bit Kogge Stone Adder(NCSim, Encounter SoC)

January 2013 to Present

Members:Ciba Kiran, KanagaRagav(Ragav) KanagaSubramanian, Sougata Chatterjee

High Speed 64 bit Kogge Stone Adder ASIC design(VHDL, Synopsys (Cadence) Spring

2013

• Implemented RTL design in VHDL and minimized power by clock gating, parallelism and pipelining.

• Optimized transistor sizes for low power using static CMOS and compared with dynamic logic families

using Cadence Virtuoso.

6T SRAM cell

August 2012 to Present

Members:Ciba Kiran, KanagaRagav(Ragav) KanagaSubramanian, Praneeth Yalavarthi

- Built a 4 bit 6T SRAM using Cadence tools - schematic and layout editor.

- Designed the peripherals i.e. sense amplifier, precharge, write and decoder circuitry.

- Design optimized for noise margin and timing considerations.

Improvising DSP circuits over Xilinx Virtex IV FPGA

August 2012 to Present

Members:Ciba Kiran, Ravi Teja Lavu

-Designd and Implemented 1-D convolution system over Nallatech FPGA Board using VHDL.

-Effectively utilized pipelining, clock synchronization and memory interface techniques like FIFO critical to

signal processing applications.

10 Gbps Wireless data link between Earth and Moon

January 2012 to Present

Members:Ciba Kiran, Swanandi Pednekar, Kapil Dalal, Madhura Soman

-Designed a wireless data link by selecting appropriate RF bands, modulation techniques, Link Budget

analysis to achieve a BER of 10^-5.

-Simulated and verified the design using Agilent design toolkit.

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Courses

Masters, Electrical Engineering

University of Florida

Wireless Communications EEL6509

RF Circuits and Systems EEL6374

Wireless Networks EEL6561

Digital Signal Processing EEL5525

Reconfigurable Computing EEL5721

VLSI EEL5322

Advanced VLSI Design EEL6323

Computer Architecture EEL5764

Skills & Expertise

Matlab

C

Signal Processing

SQL

Python

VHDL

Cadence Spectre

Java

Unix Shell Scripting

TCP/IP

Eclipse

NS3

IEEE 802.11

DSP

Verilog

Agilent ADS

FPGA

ASIC

RTL verification

Cadence Virtuoso

Digital Signal Processors

Testing

Simulations

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Education

University of Florida

Masters, Electrical Engineering, 2011 - 2013

Grade: 3.85

Activities and Societies: Gator Amateur Radio Club

1 recommendation available upon request

NIT Surat

B. Tech, Electronics, 2003 - 2007

Grade: 8.21

Activities and Societies: Guest Incharge, Hospitality Incharge, 2004-2006

Member, CHRD, NIT Surat 2003-2007

Honors and Awards

• Achievement award for academic excellence, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University

of Florida, Gainesville, USA.

• Recognized: “Thanks a Zillion” award for Bug fixing activities in Project LTE, Wipro Technologies, 2009.

• 99 percentile: All India Engineering Entrance Examinations, 2003, most popular entrance examinations in

India for a Bachelor in Technology.

• 99.75 percentile: National Science Olympiad 2000, at national level, India.

• Top Ranker: At Regional and district level English Elocution competition at KVS chain of schools all over

India.

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Ciba Kiran

Experienced wireless/telecom professional, broad understanding of IC design, wireless systems &

software applications

aca1z8@r.postjobfree.com

4 people have recommended Ciba

"I worked with Ciba for radio power consumption analysis on a smartphone product at Blackberry. She

quickly picked up power analysis using the battery analyzer and other debug tools and was able to

characterize and debug the issues seen. I recommend her for any radio software engineering position."

Anoop Nair, Team Lead, Operating System, Research In Motion, managed Ciba indirectly at BlackBerry

"Ciba, ia technical person with a good analytical skills, She is patient & doesnt make out conclusions quickly, she has a better vision to a problem,means she has a very good problem solving skill. She is determined &

focused. She loves challenges. Fun to work with I wish her all the best for her future :)"

Uma Prasad, Senior Software Engineer, Wipro Technologies, worked directly with Ciba at Wipro

Technologies

"Ciba has played a very vital role in Wipro C-cube project.She has alone driven the full testing of this project

.She has actively participated in all design discussions and during her testcase preparation phase whenever

she identified any gaps in the design, she took initiative to discuss with the Architects and the Leads, which

helped in quickly changing the design doc and its implementation too. I would surely recommend Ciba for

any such challenging roles. She is not just a good engineer but an asset to the team."

Rachna Saxena, s/w Engineer, Wipro, worked directly with Ciba at Wipro Technologies

"I worked with Ciba Kiran for the class project of our Computer Communications Class at UF in Fall 2011. I

am also a member of her team for our Wireless Networks class project this semester (Spring 2012).

Undoubtedly,Ciba is a talented student. Moreover, she possesses the dedication to ensure projects are

completed in a timely manner and the humility to connect well with others in team oriented environment.

Ciba's attributes would render her a tremendous asset to any company or academic environment."

Anim Amarsingh, Research Assistant, University of Florida, studied with Ciba at University of Florida

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