Engineering Power

Varsha Radhakrishnan

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EDUCATION

Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering May 2014

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

GPA: 3.37/4.00

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering May 2012

SRM University, Chennai, India.

GPA: 8.0/10.0

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware skills: VHDL, Verilog, System Verilog, OVM, UVM, Cadence, Synopsys, LabView, Licensed HAM radio operator

Software skills: C, C ++, MATLAB, UNIX, Perl, TCL, Shell, OOP programming

COURSEWORK

VLSI Circuits and Technology, Advanced VLSI Design, Computer Architecture, Computer Communications, Microwave IC

Design, Reconfigurable Computing, Wireless Communications, Future of Microelectronics, Network Sciences.

PROJECTS

Physical Design of 6T SRAM cell, University of Florida Oct - Dec 2012

Ensured optimized layout area, achieved DRC and LVS clear checks using Cadence Virtuoso.

Maintained read and write stability using optimally sized transistors in TSMC 0.25 µm technology.

Circular Convolution Implementation in Xilinx FPGA, University of Florida Feb - April 2013

Designed datapath, smart buffers, and tackled clock domain crossing issues.

Implemented parallelism in FPGA hardware and achieved 163x speedup at 150MHz frequency.

Design of CMOS Low Noise Amplifier, University of Florida Oct - Dec 2013

Utilized TSMC 0.35µm technology for LNA design and layout and achieved a peak gain of 26 dB.

Obtained noise factor of 1 dB at a frequency of 2.44GHz.

RTL, Validation, and Automatic Place and Route of a Low Power FFT Processor, University of Florida Jan - Mar 2014

Developed butterfly unit RTL design for radix-2 pipelined FFT processor and RAM unit.

Implemented clock gating and power gating techniques for power reduction in the processor.

Design Validation, Synthesis, and APR successfully carried out using Synopsys Design Compiler.

INTERNSHIPS (Unpaid)

Electronics Division, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited May 2011

Bangalore, India

Exposed to industrial control systems, power electronics, and power transmission.

Familiarized in digital controls and instrumentation systems for turbines.

Aircraft Communications Engineering, AIR-INDIA Dec 2011

Chennai, India

Focused on air traffic control and ground control services.

Also trained in aircraft maintenance engineering.

AWARDS

Presented ‘Fiber Optic Technologies for humidity detection’ paper at ‘PITAM’, a national level technical

symposium held in Chennai, India and won 2nd place.

Recipient of the University of Florida College of Engineering Academic Achievement Award.

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