ATHUL GOVIND

PROJECTS:

AM62 SoC with FPGA Integration for MVB Protocol (Railway Application)

 Designed and implemented MVB protocol (Manchester-coded) in FPGA for railway communication

 Developed FPGA hardware architecture and performed hardware bring-up of AM62 SoC with FPGA

 Established and verified SPI communication between AM62 and FPGA for data exchange

 Developed verification testbench for MVB protocol and SPI communication validation

 Ensured system reliability, timing accuracy, and signal integrity for real-time railway applications

Quectel SoC Hardware Design (Qualcomm ARM Cortex-A53, 64-bit Octa-Core Processor)

 Designed and developed hardware architecture for a Quectel SoC based on Qualcomm ARM Cortex-A53

 Worked on board bring-up, including power sequencing and bootloader initialization

 Integrated and validated peripherals such as SPI, I2C, UART, USB, and Ethernet

 Conducted hardware validation and debugging to ensure system stability and performance

 Optimized hardware design for power, thermal, and EMI/EMC efficiency

Audio Warning System for Jaguar Aircraft (FPGA-Based Design)

 Designed and implemented an audio warning system for the Jaguar aircraft using FPGA.

 Developed logical design in FPGA for real-time audio signal processing and control

 Developed validation Testbench to verify functionality and performance of FPGA-based audio processing.

 Ensured system reliability and performance for critical aerospace applications

DC-DC Converter Design

• Designed and developed a DC-DC converter for efficient power management

• Implemented circuit design, control logic, and voltage regulation for stable power conversion.

• Optimized performance for embedded and industrial applications

 Implemented common peripheral interfaces such as I2C, SPI, UART

 Designed ADC and DAC-based circuits for signal processing applications.

 Development of HVAC SYSTEM (Railway application)

Responsibilities:

• Hardware team Lead for various projects.

• Design and implement FPGA architecture, defining requirements and coding

• Developed test benches for functional verification

• Perform synthesis, place and route, constraints, Timing Analysis for (FPGA).

• Design hardware, Component selection and BOM preparation.

Project Details

• Push Pull converter as DC to Dc converter (600W).

• Fly Back converter as Aux power supply (25W).

• H-bridge converter as Inverter(1200W).

• Buck converter as Panel Optimizer (300W).

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Board bringing up.

• Debug and failure analysis.

• Lead Engineer in System Testing.

• Efficiency and reliability test of the developed products.

• Testing all the product specifications and designing the test process accordingly.

• Coordinate with various validation tasks, prepare reports.