Rushin Patel
** ****** ***, ***** # ***, Cell no. : 973-***-****
San Jose, CA 95110 Email:*************@*****.***
Objective: Seeking for a position of electrical engineer and want to work with a progressive and forward
thinking company where I can use my skills.
Education:
M.S. in Electrical Engineering
San Jose State University, San Jose, California GPA (3.60/4.0) (Jan 2008 – Dec 2009)
B.E. in Electronics & Communication Engineering
Gujarat University, Gujarat, India GPA (3.96/4.0) (Aug 2003 – Jun 2007)
Skill:
Tools familiarity: Cadence design environment (virtuoso composer schematic, virtuoso layout editor),
Synopsys Design Tools, VCS Compiler, Xilinx ISE, ModelSim SE
Coding skills: System Verilog, Verilog HDL, Assembly Language programming.
Non-comprehensive: C language, MATLAB, Basic knowledge of C++, Perl
Operating Systems: Windows 95 / 98 / 2000 / XP / Vista, UNIX, Mac OS
Communication Skills : Bilingual: English/Hindi, Excellent verbal and oral communication skills
Relevant Coursework:
Advance Digital System Design & Synthesis High Speed Circuit Design
Advanced Computer Architecture Mixed Signal Circuit Design
ASIC CMOS Design Semiconductor Devices Physics
SoC Design with System Verilog
Training:
Solar Panel Tracking System, F.K.Electronics, India (B.E. Final Year) (Team members: 2)
-Main aim is to achieve maximum output voltage across solar panel.
-By RTC, Position Sensor & 89C52 calculate the angle of rotation from the current position of panel.
-With help of stepper motor, rotate the panel according to required position to get maximum o/p.
-About 60% increase in power with respect to fixed panel.
Master Level Projects:
ATM Switch using system Verilog (Individual Projects)
- Create the ATM port interface; complete the port definitions for Interface module.
- Using interface protocol combining Octopus module with different modules.
- All other modules are given by Synopsys and created test benches to test the modules.
The Analysis of Area-Delay & Power-Delay Tradeoffs in Addition Circuits (Individual Projects)
- Comparison of RCA and CLA in terms of area and power delay for 8,16,32,64 bits.
- Work is verified using Synopsys synthesizer on two different libraries.
- Result explored correlations between area-delay & power-delay for both implementations.
Speculative Tomasulo’s Algorithm in Verilog (Team members: 2)
- Modules: Reorder Buffer, Reservation station, common data bus, 1 KB memory, instruction
decoder, functional unit, store bus, control unit.
- Instruction implemented: Arithmetic, load, store and branch instructions.
- Checked using printable o/p with self-generated text file & Tested algorithm with complex test cases.
Design of 32-bit Program Counter Using Dynamic Logic (Team members: 2)
- Design technology and specification: 45 nm, 2 GHz frequency, 1 V Power supply.
- Developed PC that performs stack, hold & jump operation with Schematic, layout and LVS.
- Design was implemented using 5-phase clocking and latency was 11 phase.
Design of 8-bit Pipelined Analog to Digital Converter (Team members: 3)
- Design technology and specification: 0.18 um TSMC, 1.8 V Power supply, 0.6 MHz Sampling rate.
- Schematic, layout, analog extracted and LVS done.
- Blocks: Op Amp, Sample & Hold circuit, clock comparator, 1 bit MDAC, balanced switch, current mirror.
Design of Phase locked loop (Team members: 3)
- Design technology and specification: 90 nm GPDK, 1.2 V Power supply.
- Simulator: Spectre Spice using Virtuoso analog Environment.
- Blocks: Charge Pump, Divider, PFD (Phase Frequency Detector), Low pass filter.
References: Available upon request.