Silicon validation and Hardware design engineer
Resume:
V. SUNDHAR
Post Silicon Validation and Hardware engineer
No: 33, Goodwill nagar second main road,
Old perungalathur, Chennai-600 063
Contact No : +91-741*******
E-mail ID : ************@*****.***
Objective
• Highly self-motivated, determined and dedicated person who would like to master various techniques in electronic product design, testing and acquire industrial knowledge. Summary
• Development Engineer in Silicon Validation team (Hardware and Characterization) with an experience of 2 years for MBit Wireless Pvt Ltd, Chennai.
• Hands on design experience of 2 years in NI LabView, NI Teststand, Hyperlynx and Cadence OrCad.
• Certification in Cadence Orcad Capture, AutoCAD 2D, Allegro PCB editor, PSpice from Livewire & Cadd centre.
• Technically supported engineers from analog, Back End and Hardware team during their design and test phase to meet up the specifications and other design constraints.
• Experienced and very much comfortable in using various Laboratory instruments like oscilloscopes, Serial analyzer, SMU, NI pxie.
• Trained to choose appropriate components and troubleshoot detailed issues in hardware implementation of designs.
Educational Details
Board Course College/School Name Aggregate Year of passing
Bachelor of
Engineering
Electronics and
Instrumentation
engineering
Anna University,
Madras Institute of
Technology
8.39 2017
State Board 12th Shri Anand Jain
Vidyalaya Matric Hr
Sec School
96.83% 2013
Matriculation 10th Shri Anand Jain
Vidyalaya Matric Hr
Sec School
94.60% 2011
Skill set
T&M instruments: Oscilloscopes, Logic analyzer, Signal generator, Signal analyzer, Multimeter, Clamp meter, NI PXIe (switch matrix, SMU)
Tools : Cadence OrCad capture, Allegro PCB editor, PSpice, NI LabView, NI Teststand, Arduino IDE, Matlab, AutoCAD 2D, Hyperlynx.
Languages : C, Matlab, Labview.
Operating Systems: Windows
Employer
MBit Wireless Pvt Ltd, Chennai
Position
Development Engineer (Silicon Validation Team – Hardware and Characterization engineer) Duration: Aug 2017 – Jul 2019
Description
• Designed schematics for 8+ silicon validation boards for PMIC and 4G LTE validation in Orcad for Hardware & Validation team to meet up the requirements and constraints.
• Validation of individual PMIC modules (Characterization) - Oscillator, LDO and BGR using Keithley power supply, NI PXIe, Tektronix DSA & MDO.
• Validation of AC, DC & Electrical characteristics of 4G LTE modules using Logic analyzer, Tektronix DSA and MDO for I2C, SPI, SDIO, I2S
• Involved in PI and DRC simulations for signal and power transmission lines
• PCB routing verification done for High speed and interface signals.
• Experience in Board debugging and reworking.
• Experience in generation and verifying BOM files.
• Created requirement documents for various silicon validation boards by wisely choosing appropriate silicon supporting components.
• Worked in various Boards bring up & Silicon initial bring up tests and validation.
• Worked with Board design team to trouble shoot hardware issues and validated various modules parameters.
• PCB footprint creation for through hole and SMD components as per IPC standards.
• Characterization of BBIC chip under different PVT conditions (DC parametric test, BIST and Attach) using Temptronic Thermal streamer.
• Developed validation plan for individual parameters and characterization reports for PMIC
& 4G LTE chip for internal customers to clearly provide performance details of key circuits.
• Developed validation test cases using NI Labview, NI Teststand & Matlab to automate and increase test coverage under different external conditions.
• Worked on PVT and electrical characterization to improve product quality, analyzed test results and identified potential issues and solved issues to improve quality and performance of IC.
• Involved in analysis & datasheet preparation of BBIC silicon post validation.
• Experienced in handling Multimeter (Handheld and Table top), Signal generator, Power supplies( Keithley, Siglent and Agilent), Oscilloscopes ( Tektronix DSA, MDO and Agilent), NI PXIe 1078, Active-Passive-Current probes.
• Good team-player and headed many tasks with dedication. Independent professional Projects
• PMIC characterization board design
Created schematic for PMIC validation board for bench characterization.
Selected high performance buffer, connectors and test components with reference to prescribed constraints.
Prepared Bill of material.
Done SI, PI simulation for high speed digital signals using Hyperlynx.
Simulated DRC for signals and transmission lines using Hyperlynx.
Involved in end to end board design, component placement, constraints restriction, layer stack up.
Verified entire critical and high speed routing for entire board.
Board bring up.
Tools used: Cadence OrCAD, Allegro and Hyperlynx.
• 4G LTE support Add On board design
Created schematic for BBIC validation Add On board for ADC and DFT characterization.
Selected high performance on board supplies, connectors and test components.
Prepared Bill of material.
Done SI, PI simulation for high speed digital signals using Hyperlynx.
Simulated DRC for signals and transmission lines using Hyperlynx.Involved in end to end board design, component placement, constraints restriction, layer stack up.
Verified entire critical and high speed routing for entire board.
Board bring up and debugging.
Tools used: Cadence OrCAD, Allegro and Hyperlynx.
• 4G LTE characterization and validation
Schematic design for BBIC Evaluation board.
Board bring up and debugging.
Validated 4G LTE silicon for AC, DC and PVT characteristics.
Done DC characterization test for each individual IO pins.
Automated SMU, Thermal streamer and Serial analyzer using NI LabView.
Created Matlab code for I2S analog validation.
Characterization of electrical characteristics of I2C, SPI, SDIO, I2S(using CODEC)
Debugging and failure analysis of SDIO CMD signal issue
Datasheet preparation based upon validation results.
Tools used: Cadence OrCAD, Allegro and NI LabView
• PMIC characterization and validation
Schematic design for PMIC Evaluation board.
Done SI, PI simulation for high speed digital signals using Hyperlynx.
Simulated DRC for signals and transmission lines using Hyperlynx.
Board bring up and debugging.
Validated LDO, BGR and oscillator modules
Created validation plan for each parameters under each modules.
Automated SMU, Thermal streamer and pxie using NI LabView and NI Teststand.
Characterization of DC parameters for each digital pins.
Debugged ESR issue in oscillator.
Datasheet preparation based upon validation results. Tools used: Cadence OrCAD, Allegro and NI LabView, NI Teststand and Hyperlynx Under graduate Projects
• Atmospheric green house gas monitoring system using wsn Project which focuses on cost effective, reliable and scalable real time air pollution monitoring system using wireless sensor networks. Values of various sensors kept around the campus are collected using WSN and displayed in a monitor.
• Automatic flood monitoring and alerting system for fishermen using wsn Project which focuses on cost effective, reliable real time flood monitoring system using wireless sensor networks. Values of various data sensors kept in the ship are collected using WSN and used to trigger alarm with GPS and locates nearest land area for fishermen.
• ZIZZ-Sleep if you can
A funded CTDT project which detects the drowsiness of the driver using a Measurement of skin conductance and driver’s brain waves using EEG and gives him an alarm (Fund allocated : 25000Rs/-)
Personal Details
Father’s Name : Mr.M.Veerabhadaran
Date of Birth : 01.07.1996
Nationality : Indian
Languages known : Tamil, English, Hindi
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