Signal Processing Engineer

SANTOSHI TEJASRI(TEJA) BUDDHA

*****N Pebble Ridge Pl Phone: 480-***-****

Valencia CA 91381 Email:****.*****@*****.***

SUMMARY

Experience in developing new embedded firmware and software that operate on custom hardware platforms based

on DSP processors

Analysis, Optimization and Architectural/Real-Time Implementation of DSP algorithms

Programming of DSP in fixed point C, assembly language, MATLAB and Simulink

Strong understanding of Signal Processing and Communication concepts including filter design, modulation

schemes, random signal processing and statistical representation of signals

EXPERIENCE

Digital Signal Processing Engineer, Advanced Bionics, Valencia, California Nov 2011-present

o DSP firmware implementation of speech and audio processing algorithms such as frequency estimation,

carrier synthesis, acoustic to electrical domain mapping, etc in fixed point C (Target Compiler Technologies)

and assembly languages (Sound Design Guide Technologies); development of equivalent Simulink models

o Implemented Beep generation feature for the sound processor of cochlear implants, to notify patients during

specific events

o Optimization of signal processing algorithms for efficient MIPS

o Responsible for developing strategies to debug and verify software functionalities

o Testing on evaluation boards and Behind The Ear (BTE) sound processors using oscilloscopes and signal

generators

o I2C interface programming between digital signal processors

o Documented engineering reports describing DSP signal blocks functionality and implementation details

Graduate Research Assistant, Digital Signal Processing lab, ASU Jan 2010- Nov 2011

Thesis Title: Signal processing algorithms for grid connected Photovoltaic array power optimization

o Simulation, testing and optimization of the Photovoltaic grid arrays in MATLAB and SPICE programming

EDUCATION

Master of Science, Electrical Engineering (Signal Processing and Communications), Nov 2011

Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, U.S.A GPA: 3.86/4.00

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communications Engineering, May 2009

Gandhi Institute of Technology and Sciences, Andhra University, India GPA: 9.5/10.00

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming: C, Fixed point C, C++, Assembly Languages (Intel: 8085, 8086 and 8051), Single Instruction

Multiple Data Processing (SIMD)

DSP Assembly: DSP56858E (Metro Werks Code Warrior), TMS320C55X (Code Compose Studio), Sound

Design Guide Technologies, SmartNcode Teak Lite, Target Compiler Technologies

Simulation Tools: MATLAB, Simulink, PSPICE, Linear Technology SPICE, Verilog

Operating Systems: DOS, UNIX, Linux

Version control: Team Foundation Server, Tortoise Subversion (SVN)

PROJECTS (Masters of Science)

Real Time Signal Processing (C and Assembly)

o Image transformations : brightness, histogram equalization, thresholding/quantization on DSP56858E

o Applications using DSP56858EVM CODEC

o Musical notes synthesis using C and assembly on TMS320C55X

o Real time spectrum analyzer and Pitch estimation of voiced speech segments using Fast Fourier

Transform on TMS320C55X

High Throughput Algorithms for Compressive Sensing in Image Reconstruction

Optimization of compressive sensing algorithms for parallel implementation of sampling and image

reconstruction; uses radial sampling and simplified Split Bregman algorithm; MATLAB-based implementation

Compression of speech data using FFT in MATLAB

Fast Fourier Transforms to compress speech signals by Dominant ‘n’ and first ‘n’ methods using rectangular and

triangular windows

GRADUATE COURSE WORK

Digital Signal Processing Real time DSP Architectures & Artificial Neural Computation

Random Signal Theory

Implementations Solar Energy

Communication Systems VLSI Architectures Digital Communications

RELEVANT UNDER-GRADUATE COURSE WORK

Computer architecture and organization

Microprocessors and interfacing

Operating systems

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