Microfabrication, Analog/Digital Design, Layout

KARTHIK BALASUBRAMANIAN Phone: +1-408-***-****

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SUMMARY

• Good hands on experience with state of the art fabrication equipments and technologies.

• Extensive work experience in cleanroom environments.

• Experience in Analog/Digital and Mixed signal VLSI design through various real time course projects.

• Proficient in layout design tools such as Cadence, Tanner EDA.

• Competent in simulation tools such as ANSYS, COMSOL, MATLAB and Pspice.

• Good understanding of programming languages like C, C++, Perl and Verilog scripts.

• Excellent communication & influence skills

• Good Troubleshooting and problem solving skills

OBJECTIVE

Looking for a challenging full time position in the field of IC/ micro fabrication where I can utilize my skills to be innovative and contribute to the growth of the company and also enhance my knowledge.

ACADEMICS

M.S. Electrical Engineering August 2011

Louisiana State University

GPA: 3.4/4.0

B.E. Electrical and Electronics Engineering June 2008

Anna University, India

GPA: 71/100

WORK EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant (August 2009-September 2011)

Electronic Material and Devices Laboratory, Electrical Engineering, Louisiana State University

Research Topic: Biomedical Imaging Devices (CMUT)

Research Advisor: Dr. DooYoung Hah

• Design and fabrication of foldable substrates for micro ultrasonic transducer which is used for minimal invasive imaging application.

• Resonant frequency of a transducer using ANSYS simulation.

• Idea can be used where high frequency and less penetration ultrasonic imaging is required.

• Folding a silicon substrate with CMUT elements fabricated on the substrate.

• Implementation of folded substrate on silicon on insulator (SOI) and ultrathin Si wafers.

• Proficient in all cleanroom equipments like reactive ion etching, optical lithography, evaporation, pattern generator, SEM, optical profiles, etc.

• Experimented various ways to make the silicon substrate foldable.

IT Technical Support (Graduate Assistant)

Public Policy Research Lab, LSU, USA August 2008 – August 2009

• Designing, testing and managing mail surveys with Cardiff Teleform.

• Creating web survey using Qualtrics (an online survey software).

• Technical assistance to 60 workstations.

• Worked on a project for Louisiana Department of Labor (LDOL) to conduct Job Vacancy Survey (JVS).

• Worked on a project for Louisiana Health Insurance Systems (LHIS) to find out number of uninsured people in the state of Louisiana.

• Website maintenance.

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Operating Systems - LINUX, Windows, Mac.

• Programming Languages - C/C++, Java.

• HDL/Scripts - Verilog, VHDL, Perl.

• Tools - Cadence(Virtuoso, NCSIM, Conformal, Encounter), Tanner EDA(L-Edit),

B2 Logic, Matlab Simulink

• Simulators - PSPICE, COMSOL Multiphysics, ANSYS, Auto CAD

PROJECTS

• Scalable Current sensor for testing VLSI Circuits- Design and layout of a built in current sensor which provides IDDQ testing of CMOS Integrated Circuits in 0.5 micron technology using cadence.

• 8 bit Analog to Digital Converter (ADC)- Design of a 8 bit Pipeline ADC with Phase Lock Loop (PLL) as clock Input using L-Edit in CMOS 0.5 micron technology using Tanner EDA

• Passive Micro-Mixer- Was involved in the Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Passive Micro-Mixer with relatively high mixing efficiency.

• Design of Operational Amplifier- This project involves the design of operational amplifier using both BJT and MOSFET, finding various parameters and comparing it with PSPICE simulation.

• Four bit serial to parallel shift register- Designed a 4-bit serial in parallel out shift register using Master Slave JK Flip Flops and implemented it using L-edit layout design in 1.5 micron CMOS technology

• Embedded based coin blank counting machine- This is a real time project done for Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) where microcontroller program is used to count the number of coin blanks produced in Steel Plant

INTERNSHIPS

• Salem Steel Plant (SAIL) (Summer 2006) - Worked in areas such as Digital Automation System, Drive Control of DC Motor, and Programmable Logic Controllers,

• National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) (Summer 2007) - Practical Experience in Electrical Maintenance Dept in Variable Frequency Control for AC motor using Pulse Width Modulation technique, Transmission lines and also various switchgear equipments.

PRESENTATIONS

• Nanotechnology based on reciprocities presented at a national level technical symposium.

• Direct Back Electro Motive Force Detection of a Sensorless Brushless DC Motor Drive presented at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.

• Low K dielectric materials presented at Louisiana State University.

COURSES TAKEN

Nanofabrication Microfluidic Biochip Control Systems

Advanced VLSI Design Mixed Signal Integrated Circuit Electrical Machines

Integrated Circuit Engineering Microprocessor and Microcontroller Digital Logic Circuits

Computer Architecture Integrated Sensors and Actuators Linear Integrated Circuits

AWARDS & HONORS

• Graduate Research Assistantship and Graduate College Scholarship for 3rd consicutive year

• Best paper award in a national level technical seminar.

• Best Project award at TECSHOW for a project “Low speed Tachometer”, conducted at Sona College of Technology.

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