BHARATH SRIVATSA

Technology:

• Thunderbolt/USB4 is a super speed IO hardware supporting a data rate of 40Gbps. It can tunnel USB3, PCIe and DP protocols and is the baseline for next-gen USB4v2 (80Gbps).
• USB4 40G and 80G Retimer SoCs

Projects:

• Alder lake, Raptor lake, Meteor lake, Lunar lake, Arrow lake, Panther lake and Nova lake(80G)

Responsibilities:

• Senior member of technical staff and IP SV lead for USB4 core & Retimer across Intel Client SoCs
• My role is to implement validation processes, define test methodologies, develop validation plans - test content, drive critical debugs and technical mentoring of peers. I believe this has helped foster a highly skilled and efficient USB4 IP SV team.
• My scope of work also extends to tasks like HW bring-up during PON, alignment of technical deliverables with program management, representing my team in key decision-making forums and serving as the "sys-debug" PoC to cross-functional teams.
• Successfully delivered production quality Thunderbolt/USB4 IP hardware to be integrated onto Intel SoCs (from Alder lake to Nova Lake) which included the world's first USB4v1(40G) and USB4v2(80G) host cores.
• Successfully delivered 2 retimer SoCs (40G) and (80G) to be paired with USB4 cores on Intel SoCs
• Debug lead driving root-cause analysis of issues during validation cycle, enabling timely resolution of HW or FW bugs through fixes/enhancements. This helps unlock critical project milestones and at times also leads to ECOs on the subsequent silicon step.
• Collaborate with design, architecture, firmware, and software teams to ensure comprehensive coverage and resolution of validation issues.
• Ensure the IP undergoes thorough product certification and compliance testing as per USB-IF guidelines.
• Work with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, debuggers etc

Technology:

• Multimedia sub-system (Camera ISP/Video Core), CPU (ARM v7) sub-system, IoT modules

Projects:

• Multiple Mobile SoCs spanning across Snapdragon 200, 400 and 600 series
• CSR Smart Audio 400 (IoT SoC)
• Snapdragon 820A (Automotive SoC)

Responsibilities:

• My role as an individual contributor mainly involved performing bare-metal silicon validation of different IPs like camera (ISP core), video codec and CPU cores.
• Development of a wide variety of test content to achieve complete validation coverage -> bare metal drivers, sanity tests, functional & system-level use-cases, stress and stability, concurrency scenarios, power and performance measurement/analysis.
• Perform pre-silicon validation of IP cores on FPGA emulation platforms.
• Responsible for all post-silicon activities associated with the IP starting from silicon bring-up to project EoL.
• Perform characterization of IP-cores based on process, temperature, frequency and voltage scaling.
• Support software and customer teams to debug software issues and OEM must-fix issues.
• Deliver ATE vectors to enable easy screening of bugs on high volume parts.

• Integrating testability features into SoC through scan insertion, ATPG pattern generation and validation using Cadence or Synopsys DFT tools.