Design Engineer

SAUMEN MONDAL

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OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging and rewarding opportunity with an organization which recognizes and utilizes my true potential while nurturing my analytical and technical skills

PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS

Competent & diligent professional with M Tech in VLSI, Microelectronics & Display Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, backed with Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Communication from Dr. B C Roy Engineering College, Durgapur.

Successfully completed a thesis on “High Frequency Continuous-Time Active Filter Design” which consists of the design of OTA, and three filters with a publication from the same with the title “A 600MHz, 6th Order, Highly Linear Gm-C Bandpass Filter Design” in 2010 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS 2010, December 6-9, 2010).

Expertise and Interest in Analog and Mixed-Signal Design, RF Integrated Circuit Design.

Possess Sound Analytical, Quantitative Research and Problem-Solving Skills with rich experience in Verification Methodologies.

Enriched with the ability to learn new concepts & technology within a short span of time.

Focused and hardworking, self motivated and team oriented; with capability to meet high-pressure deadlines and coordinate multiple projects; effective team player with excellent communication and inter-personal skills

Technical Skills

Operating Systems Windows 7/XP & Linux,Unix

Languages C, Shell Scripting

Modeling Languages Verilog, VHDL, HDL

Synthesizer & Simulation TitanADX,Magma Titan,spice,finesim,Cadence Virtuoso and Spectre, Mentor Graphics IC Studio and IC Station,

Tools Pspice, MATLAB, Qualnet , Ansoft & HFSS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MAGMA DESIGN AUTOMATION PVT. INDIA LTD., BANGLORE Since June’2011

Associate Application Engineer

Designed and optimized OpAmps and Band gap circuits using the equation derived from the small signal models of the circuit for the desired specifications (e.g. Gain, Bandwidth, UGB etc.).

Designed a band gap reference circuit for Toshiba using the provided schematic and specification.

Characterized the circuits like OpAmps, Band gap references and LDO’s for the tsmc 48nm technology and Fujitsu.

Worked on improving the performance of the existing flex cells for the OpAms and Band gap reference circuits by improving the existing equations to improve the performance and predictability of soft macros.

Conducted training for the whole design flow in TitanADX.

DR.B. C. ROY ENGINEERING COLLEGE, DURGAPUR, WB Aug’2010-May’2011

Assistant Professor

Successfully conducted courses for the Solid State Devices and Analog Circuit Design.

EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS

M. Tech (Microelectronics, VLSI & Display Technology); 2010

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, UP; CGPA - 8.25

B. Tech (Electronics & Communication Engineering); 2006

Dr. B .C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, WB; CGPA -8.03

SSCE; 2000

Central Board of Secondary Education; 65.80%

SSE; 1998

Central Board of Secondary Education; 72.60

M Tech Thesis Paper

Title High Frequency Continuous-Time Active Filter Design

Advisors Dr. Animesh Biswas, Dr. Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava

Duration Aug’ 09 – May 10

Role Studied different types of integrated filters and their performance trade-offs. Worked on the trade-offs

and existing methodologies in design of Operational Tran conductance Amplifier (OTA) used in Gm-C

Filter Design. Designed the following modules

Operational Trans-conductor Amplifier (OTA) with gain of 43dB, UGB of 2GHz and phase margin of 86 .

Very High Frequency Highly Linear Low Pass Gm-C Filter for HDD application with cut-off frequency of 1.533 GHz in IHP SiGe BiCMOS SG25H1 node.

Band Pass Gm-C Filter with centre frequency 600 MHz and Pass band of 500MHz.

High Pass Gm-C Filter with pass band starting from 10 MHZ.

Academic Project & Term Papers

Title An 8-bit ALU Design

Duration Jan’09-Apr’09

Description Custom design of an 8 bit ALU which implements addition, subtraction, multiplication, shifting,

increment, decrement and logical operations. Design Specification was Total power dissipation of

2.717µWatt.Designed using Mentor Graphics at 0.18µm technology. Full layout of the ALU was

designed

Title Design of Cascode Operational Amplifier with High Gain and High PSRR

Duration Aug’08-Nov’08

Description Complete hand analysis of design was done to establish the operating point (Bias voltages and

currents) to drive all transistors to saturation. Design Specification included Gain of 70dB,Unity Gain

Bandwidth of 41.2MHz, Power Dissipation- 79.8478µ Watts, Phase Margin-55, CMRR-40dB, PSRR (VDD)-

62dB, PSRR (VSS)- 58dB

Title Corner Effects in FinFETs and its Reduction

Duration Aug’08-Nov’08

Description The Corner Effect in FinFET transistor was investigated in this course paper. It has been shown that

the corner effect in small size FinFETs for typical device parameters does not lead to a leakage

current and hence does not deteriorate the FinFET transistor performance. In fact reverse corner

effect observed in FinFET’s which results in the depletion of leakage current in the corners.

Title Lateral Control of an Aircraft

Duration Jan’06-Jun-06

Description The project was a study of the lateral motion of an air plane. It included deriving the transfer

function of the lateral motion of the airplane from its block diagram and studying its performance

using MATLAB functions. The analysis was based on the study of root locus plot and bode plots. It also

included an overview of the dynamics of an airplane to understand the lateral and longitudinal motion

of an aircraft. Tool Used: MATLAB 6.1

Relevant Coursework

VLSI Circuits and Design Solid State Devices I

Integrated Circuit Fabrication Technology High Frequency Semiconductor Devices and Circuits

Semiconductor Device Modeling Analog/Digital VLSI Circuits

RFID & Wireless Sensors Microwave Circuits

Publication

“A 600MHz, 6th Order, Highly Linear Gm-C Bandpass Filter Design” has been accepted for presentation and publication in 2010 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS 2010, December 6-9, 2010).

Teaching Assistantship

Teaching Assistant for courses: EE311: Microelectronics II , EE645:MMIC, EE618: IC Fabrication Technology

Assisted and ensured working of 4i Laboratory

Workshop Attended

Ansoft & HFSS conducted by Dr. B C Roy Engineering College, Durgapur

Extra Curricular Activities & Accomplishments

Actively participated as Coordinator-GJ Inauguration

Designated member of Orientation Team 2009-2010, Counseling Service, IIT Kanpur & Organizing Committee,HORIZON’06(A State Level Technical Fest)

Ancillary responsibilities include as Secretary, Fine Art Club, Fine Art Events (Antaragni’09).

Awarded with 1st prize in Electronics Quiz at HORIZON’05

Achieved 125th rank in All India Rank for GATE 2008(EC) with 99.54 percentile

Date of Birth: 6th September, 1984

References: Available on request

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