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CHAKRADHAR IPPILI

CHAKRADHAR IPPILI

DFT Engineer
Bangalore

Summary

Having 7+ years of experience in VLSI.

  • Acquired knowledge in VLSI design focused on Digital system testing and DFT
  • More Acquaintance with the Use of EDA Tools like Synopsys, Cadence & Mentor
  • Familiarity with OCC, Compression techniques, JTAG, core wrapping concepts, Boundary Scan & MBIST
  • Hands on experience with Synopsys – DFT Compiler, Tetra Max; Cadence – Genus, Modus, NC Simulator; Mentor Graphics – DFT Advisor, TestKompress and Questa simulator
  • Hands on experience on Scan Insertion, ATPG pattern Generation, MBIST pattern generation, Test Coverage analysis, Simulations & LEC
  • Top level scan insertion & pattern Generation
  • ATPG pattern conversion (STIL to ATP) and pattern delivery
  • Writing Timing constraints & deliver it to STA
  • Supported for tester on post silicon validation & Diagnosis for multiple projects
  • Worked on Low Power DFT Techniques
  • Worked on Pattern Re-targeting from Core level to SoC Level


Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
Languages

Work History

Lead DFT Engineer

DEFT Semiconductors Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
10.2018 - Current

Worked in multiple clients during this tenure:

  • Western Digital
  • L&T
  • Qualcomm
  • Samsung (SSIR)

Leading a team of 8 people in my recent assignment

And was responsible for complete Scan deliverables

Worked on DFT for multiple ASIC's

Having vast exposure on EDA tools.

  • Top level, Hierarchical scan insertion & pattern Generation
  • Worked on compression techniques, to decide no of scan in & scan out ports required
  • Worked on Low Power DFT Techniques
  • Worked on Complex designs with a size of ~300Million Sequential instances
  • Test point insertion to improve coverage & reduce pattern count using SpyGlassDFT
  • Delivered the timing constraints to STA team for all modes of DFT
  • Patten generation for blocks & Coverage analysis
  • Re-targeting the patterns to TOP level using block level patterns in both SA TD modes using Tetramax
  • ATPG pattern conversion (STIL to ATP) and pattern delivery
  • Supported for tester on post silicon validation & Diagnosis for multiple projects
  • Verified the HTOL sequence to be used for BURN-IN test
  • Validated the preamble sequence for all DFT modes
  • Performing Zero delay & Timing simulations from Blocks & Top
  • Debugging the failures in both Zero delay & Timing Simulations
  • Performing LEC between PRE DFT & POST DFT Netlists.

DFT Engineer

Adeptchip services pvt ltd
Bangalore
06.2016 - 09.2018

Worked for multiple clients during my tenure:

  • Aura Semiconductors
  • Sandisk/Western Digital
  • Alliedvision

Had a great exposure to EDA Tools

Worked on complete Scan Insertion, ATPG & Simulations

  • Hierarchal Scan insertion using DFT Compiler
  • Test point insertion to improve coverage & reduce pattern count using SpyGlassDFT
  • · Patten generation for blocks & Coverage analysis
  • Stuck-at Pattern generation from Top in both (Intest & Extest Modes)
  • Atspeed pattern generation from Top in both (Intest & Extest Modes)
  • RAM-Sequential pattern generation for TOP
  • Verified the HTOL sequence to be used for BURN-IN test
  • Validated the preamble sequence for all DFT modes
  • Performing Zero delay & Timing simulations from Blocks & Top
  • Debugging the failures in both Zero delay & Timing Simulations
  • Delivered the timing constraints to STA team for all modes of DFT
  • Converting the ATPG patterns to ATE supportable format (ATP) & Pattern Delivery
  • Worked on post silicon validation for complete scan patterns
  • Worked on pattern diagnosis flow to debug post silicon failures
  • MBIST implementation using SMS at block level
  • Verified the MBIST inserted logic
  • Test point insertion to improve coverage & reduce pattern count using SpyGlassDFT


Education

B.Tech - Electronics and communications Engineering

Sri Sivani Institute Of Technology

Skills

    Scan Insertion

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Highlights

  • Having a good experience in communicating with cross functional teams
  • Received appreciation from Client's for finishing the tasks within critical timelines & meeting deadlines
  • Handling high pressure situations with good debugging skills
  • Producing work with quick turnaround times
  • Was part of multiple successful Post SIlicon validations of Scan patterns

Interests

Playing Badminton & Cricket

Watching movies & webseries

Timeline

Lead DFT Engineer

DEFT Semiconductors Pvt Ltd
10.2018 - Current

DFT Engineer

Adeptchip services pvt ltd
06.2016 - 09.2018

B.Tech - Electronics and communications Engineering

Sri Sivani Institute Of Technology
CHAKRADHAR IPPILIDFT Engineer