ASIC Engineer

Nikulkumar R Savaliya

B-**, Shreejinagar Society Div-2, L H Road, Surat -395006, Gujarat, India

M : +91-901******* E : ***************@*****.*** Career Objective:

To work in an organization that can nourish my love for Electronics and Computer Architecture, Where the work is not just a mean of earning money but it is something more than that. Where I can enjoy what I do and can make good social relations with other employees. Work Experience:

I have total 2.5+ years of the industrial experience as a Verification Engineer. ASIC Engineer (Oct 2016 to till date)

NVIDIA Graphics Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore, India

My Job at NVIDIA includes

System level verification of IST (InSystem Test) which includes running MBIST and LBIST on chip shutdown to fulfill ASIL-C standard requirement.

Regression analysis and clean up

Writing APIs to communicate with hardware

Development of checkers and assertions writing for test automation Senior Design Engineer (July 2014 - Sep 2016)

STMicroelectronics Pvt. Ltd. Greater Noida, India

My Job at STMicroelectronics includes

Development of verification plan for the functional verification of digital IPs like Ethernet

(RGMII, RMII, MII), Power Management Unit (PMU), Self-Test Control Unit (STCU), Low Power Standby Unit, Timers, Register Protection Unit etc. on SoC level

Migrating Ethernet IP verification environment to UVM based environment.

Power aware simulation (UPF based Low Power Simulation)

Development and debugging of test cases for functional verification as well as for tester machine

Netlist simulations with/without SDF back annotation

Maintenance and enhancement of verification environment to make it more automated

Regression running and coverage analysis

Support to validation team in test debugging on Silicon, customers and software team for driver writing.

Internship (Jan 2014 – June 2014)

STMicroelectronics Pvt. Ltd. Greater Noida, India

In internship I was working on Verification of Ethernet based Subsystem. My job was to write various test cases for the functional verification of subsystem. Key Strengths:

Very good debugging skill that has helped me to solve issues raised at SoC level, DFT level and Software driver writing level

I am a very quick learner of any technical specifications that helps me to switch my work very fast between various IPs.

Good understanding and hands on experience on ARM and Power PC based SoC architecture, on-chip bus protocols like AHB, APB, AXI, IP skyblue

Commitment to my job

Awards of appreciation:

Awarded with “Outstanding Performer” of my department for year 2015-2016 in STMicroelectronics India.

Programming Languages Known:

C : Good knowledge of various data types and their use according to memory requirement, arithmetic, logical and bitwise operators, arrays, pointers, structure, functions etc. Good amount of work is being done while working as verification engineer.

C++ : Good knowledge of its Object Orientation Philosophy.

VHDL : Good understanding of processes, functions, conditional statements etc.

Verilog : Good understanding of sequential and combo logic programming, blocking and non-blocking assignments in Verilog

System Verilog : Sound knowledge of System Verilog Assertions and various constructs

UVM : I have excellent knowledge and working experience on Universal verification methodology based environment.

Scripting : Basic knowledge of Python scripting

Educational Qualifications:

Degree : B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering with CPI 8.42/10 from NIRMA University, Ahmedabad, India

Passing Year : 2014

HSC (X+II) : 91.20% (96% in PCM)

Areas of Interest :

Testing and verification of chip

Hardware debugging

Digital System Design

Programming of Embedded systems

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