Engineer Software

PAVITRA RAMANUJAM

Focus/Interest: Embedded systems design and programming; Technical product marketing

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Technology Consultant (Jan 2014 - ) Sun Edison Energy LLC, Advanced solutions for Solar Energy: Embedded

Software and Firmware of large monitoring products using Embedded Linux.

EXPERIENCE Years of Experience: 14+ years

SUMMARY

Skills:

Embedded Systems Design : Firmware and Software And System level hardware interfacing

design

Firmware programming: C and Assembly languages for microcontroller and digital signal

processor platforms . Embedded Linux programming.

1. Analog Devices Blackfin family. Real Time Kernel Programming: with Visual DSP

2. Embedded IAR workbench for ARM Cortex -M Cores: STM32F10x processors.

3. Cypress PSoC family

4. Others: Texas Instruments OMAP, SHARC; Motorola; ARM cortex based and Intel

processors

Hardware Board design and board bring up with board support packages; writing low level

software drivers - Analog Devic es Blackfin Digital signal processor and STM32F107

Verilog (Hardware Definition Language)

Roles:

1. Embedded Systems Design: Firmware /Software and system level hardware

interfacing design.

Technical Due diligence – solutions, reference designs and application notes for chip

2.

product families

3. Technical Product Marketing

4. New Product definition & Mapping Applications and system design to chip

architectures

Different areas and select assignments are highlighted below:

In Cypress Semiconductors (2008 – July 2013)

• Applications Engineer Staff Senior (Sep 2009-July 2013)

• Technical Advisor (Sep 2008-Sep 2009)

In Vortex Engineering Private Ltd (May 2003 – Sep 2007)

Principal Technologist – Electronics, Firmware and software of a product funded by venture

capital firms like Aavishkar, VentureEast. As principal technologist was involved in product

design: both electronics and firmware/software during product’s early stage incubation.

Project Consultant: (July 2013 – Jan 2014) Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai jointly with

PROFESSIONAL

ACCOMPLISHMENTS Ministry of Human Resources, Power, Government of India.

Smart grid controller for load balancing between electric grid and solar energy generated duri ng

peak load times.

Role

Algorithms for load balancing; system level platform design for smart load control: hardware and

software/firmware.

Cypress Semiconductors Technologies India (Sep 2008 – July 2013)

Applications Engineer Staff Senior (2009- July 2013)

1. Lead Applications identification for Cypress PSoC’s new platforms/ chip product

families.

Mapping PSoC architecture to applications.

Product sub family segmentation based on applications.

Design of application architecture around PSoC.

2. Incubation of Solar micro- inverter product group within Cypress – Market

requirements, Technical analyses

Technical Adviser ((2008-2009)

Medical vertical segment: building low power portable medical equipments around PSoC

family of devices.

Digital Signal processing capabilities to be added to capabilities of Cypress System On

Chip products

a. Analysis of new algorithms for a camera on chip /Image sensor chip for optimizing

performance on existing hardware capabilities available in Cypress.

b. Recommendations for implementation of the new algorithms

Embedded Systems design Lead: Perfint Ltd (May 2008- Aug 2008)

Perfint is a health care product Start up incubated by Erasmic and IDG ventures.

Role:

Hardware and Firmware: Mentored a team of 3-4 engineers for an automated biopsy needle

insertion mechanism for minimally invasive surgery to be performed on small lesions

Lead Engineer, Portable Digital Media Systems and Processing,

Ittiam Systems (P) Ltd, Consulate 1, 1 Richmond Road, Bangalore 560025 (Jan 2008 – May

2008)

Portable media player frameworks on Texas Instruments OMAP 2430/3430 family of

processors platforms.

Principal Technologist, Electronics, Firmware/Software, early stage incubation of company

(May 2003 – Sep 2007)

Vortex Engineering (P) Ltd is a technology start up funded by Venture East, Aavishkar along

with Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.

Roles

Product conceptualization to address unmet market needs

Product architecture: Hardware, Firmware and Software Client engageme nt as part of

requirements gathering and pre sales support

Product validation and certification for product launch,customer engagement & pre sales

support

Development platform (ADI Analog Devices Inc) Visual DSP, ModelSim/Impact Development

environment for Xilinx CPLD programming. Or CAD tools for Hardware schematics design.

Details

1. Low Level Hardware Device drivers (LCD, printer, magnetic

System Design of main

stripe/Contact less smart card and various control modules (TTL and CMOS

controller cards.

devices) embedded interfacing, Flash memory device driver; Biometric data capture

Hardware design, board support

flow.) And Boot Loader.

software packages and

diagnostics.

2. Libraries with Hardware Abstraction Layers

3. Application Programming interface (API) calls to be used by main

application Protocol

Motor and sensor control; finite state machine for single cassette cash dispensation

Algorithms And Software

Combinational logic State machine to glue peripheral devi ces

PLD programming with Verilog

Summary of other roles Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India/LANBITS, Taiwan: Senior Software Engineer, (1997 -

1998):

Embedded Systems: Low level drivers development and design related Fast Ethernet.

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India-- Multiport Ethernet switch with Fast Ethernet Uplink

(1995 through 1996):

High speed Switching Software and drivers. Implementation in Assembly language/C.

Hardware and Firmware bring up: Board support packages for multi port switch devices. For a

US incubated company.

Sonic software systems, USA / Software Technology Park, Hyderabad, India (1995): Remote

BOOT, DHCP server for MAC platform.

Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, USA (1993-1995): Image processing

algorithms packages for recognition of resources and numerical analysis.

Papers Medical Electronics Drive Move to Home Care Pavitra Ramanujam and Shamik Mehta,

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA,USA. Published in Electronic Products

(www.electronicproducts.com) August 2009.

http://www.cypress.com/?docID=17677

Personal Profile Educational Qualifications:

1. M.S in Computer Engineering, St. Mary's University of San Antonio, Texas 78228, U.S.A.

(1995).

2. M.Sc in Electronics/Applied Physics, Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi,

Delhi 110006, India (1991).

3. Other: A course in Network and internet security at the University of California, Berkeley.

Obtained grade A . Oct 2002.

Awards/Honors

1. M.S was supported by scholarships/assistantships/Fellowships. (1992 -1994).

2. UNIX: Certificate of Achievement. Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas,

USA.

3. Awarded merit certificate and medal by the Central Board of Secondary Education

(CBSE), India, for meritorious performance at the All India Secondary School Exam.

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