Engineer Project
Resume:
Pritam Kalaimani ADDRESS
PH NO. :+91-961*******
Email : ******.*********@*****.*** Lingarajapuram,
Bangalore - 560084.
Career objective: To pursue a meaning full and challenging career in the field
of RF/microwave circuits and systems design and electrical circuits and systems
design.
Core Competencies:
Comprehensive knowledge of designing full custom analog and mixed
signals IC.
Possess experience in RF engineering. Thorough experience in the use of
test equipment such as a spectrum Analysers, RF Generators, Power
Meters and Oscilloscopes. Have successfully tested the working of various
board level components and designs.
Well versed with PCB design software (protel, ORCAD).
Possess good knowledge and practical experience in the design
(configuration) of FPGA's using HDL (VHDL) programming language.
Good knowledge and understanding of signal processing concepts.
Software skills :
Programming Languages : VHDL,C, C++
Design tools: TCAD, PSPICE, Cadence Virtuoso, Stabie soft, protel,
Matlab, CCS studio, IAR.
Professional summary
Promptec Renewables PVT LTD(February 2014 – present)
Designation: Electronics Engineer(R&D)
Project: Integration of a solar battery charge controller (PWM) with a
CFL BALLAST
The requirement of the project was to integrate the charge controller circuit with
a CFL Ballast. The microcontroller used for this project was MSP430G2231. The
idea was to develop an automated system where the microcontroller would take
care of the battery charging during the day and ‘turn on’ the CFL lamp when the
sun sets and keep it ‘ON’ through-out the night. The lamp would be turned ‘off’
when dawn breaks. The project was done individually.
Ansula Technologies (April 2013 to February 2014)
Designation: RF Electronics Engineer (Trainee Engineer)
Project: Development of a high end ultra-wide band (UWB) Transceiver
Board
Role: My role was mainly to search on the web for suitable components (R&D)
and develop the PCB layouts and test the components for its ultimate usage in
the transceiver board. This project was carried out on a gradual and constant
improvement basis.
Project: Wi-Fi Controlled LED Lighting
The Project involved the porting of the CC3000 WiFi device to MSP430G2553
MCU and hence develop it for to control LED modules (Eg: on/off, dimming etc).
The chipsets used were TI based.
Project: Hardware development of 4G (LTE) base station controller boards
Role: Was involved in the hardware development and testing of a 2 X 2 MIMO
system, where I tested the working of several RF components like low noise
amplifier, duplexer, power amplifier etc., and eventually integrated the modules
to TI’s AD9131 transceiver chip.
ARF DESIGN PVT LTD (November 2012-April 2013)
Analog/mixed signal layout design Trainee
Concepts and Techniques Learnt:
MOS Transistor matching (interdigitisation and common centroid), resistor and
capacitor matching, half-cell, routing differential pair, current mirror routing,
guard ring, shielding(co-axial and lateral), floor planning, verification checks
(LVS,DRC), coupling analysis, latchup and ESD issues, parasitic effects in analog
design.
Layouts designed (130nm):
Digital Standard cells:
Full Adder, D-Flip Flop, XNOR, NAND, INV, NAND, NOR, AND, OR.
Analog Layout:
Layouts for op-amp, diff stage, cascade amplifier, cascade amplifier, differential
pair, current mirror, bias generator, band-gap amplifier, op-amp switch, 3-stage
opamp.
Design tool: Stabie soft
Academic Profile:
2010-2012: Newcastle University
Masters in Microelectronics
Dissertation: Design and implementation of a first order delta sigma
converter
Objective: To design and implement a first order delta sigma analog to digital
converter (ADC)
A first order delta sigma modulator was designed and implemented in
PSPICE and the digital decimator filter (CIC filter) was designed in
MATLAB and implemented in VHDL in ALTERA QUARTUS
MATLAB was used as an interfacing tool between ALTERA QUARTUS and
PSPICE
The modulated signal obtained in the PSPICE simulations was converted
into binary signals in MATLAB and exported as a .TBL file into ALTERA
QUARTUS. This .TBL file which is a wave form file was run with the VHDL
program written for the digital decimator filter.
Applications: High resolution data converters play a vital role in high quality
digital signal processing
Coursework:
Designed an FIR Filter Accelerator for a PC with a data receiver and
transmitter using VHDL and implemented the FIR Filter Accelerator on an
UP2 development board (FPGA Training Kit) and connected to the PC by
means of a FDTI TTL-232R-5V cable via the RS232 port.
Analysed and studied the short channel effects of a MOS device and the
process of scaling down a MOS device. This was carried out using
technology computer aided design (TCAD) tool.
Successfully designed and simulated the schematics and layout of a D-
Flip-Flop using Cadence virtuoso design tool.
Modules included: System on chip test strategies, Semiconductor electronic
devices, Semiconductor device fabrication, Advanced VLSI design, Power
Electronics, Reconfigurable hardware design, Mobile and cellular
communications.
2005-2009: Amrita school of engineering, Bangalore, India
B.TECH (Electronics and Instrumentation engineering)
Modules included:
Control Systems, VLSI design and circuits, Digital signal processing, Electronic
devices and circuits, Analogue integrated circuits, Physics of semiconductor
devices, Neuro and fuzzy logic, Digital control system.
Dissertation: Fault Detection using Machine Vision
Objective: To find defects in a given object using Image processing
The object under scrutiny would be compared against a template to check
for manufacturing defects (2D defects only)
The entire process was simulated using Matlab, also a GUI was designed
using the GUIDE tool in Matlab
Applications: Quality control, Non-destructive testing
Interests, activities and achievements:
Played in the school basketball team at various levels and tournaments
and was part of the team which won the inter school basketball
tournament
Captained the basketball team at the college level
Played for the school cricket team and Contributed significantly for the
teams winning cause in many occasions
Represented my school in various athletic events and won many medals
Reference: Will be furnished on request.
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