Rajat Sugandhi

• Responsible for full chip validation of MIPI D-PHY interfaces for FPD devices. Work includes developing validation plans, executing silicon bring-up, and verifying high-speed data paths across PVT conditions. Involved in debugging link-level issues such as timing margins, jitter, lane synchronization, and signal integrity. Work also includes the correlation between simulation and silicon measurements.

• LEADING ANALOG CIRCUIT DESIGN AND VERIFICATION FOR DC-PHY SUBSYSTEMS IN ADVANCED NODES (3NM TO 2NM).
• DESIGNED AND VALIDATED KEY BLOCKS INCLUDING LPRX, LPCD, AND CLOCK MULTIPLIERS.
• SUCCESSFULLY DELIVERED DESIGNS FOR TWO TESTCHIPS AND ONE MASS PRODUCTION DEVICE, MEETING AGGRESSIVE PPA AND TAPEOUT TIMELINES.
• RESPONSIBLE FOR SCHEMATIC DESIGN, SIMULATION, LAYOUT REVIEW, AND POST-LAYOUT VERIFICATION ACROSS MULTIPLE PVT CORNERS.

• ANALOG DESIGN(DEC 2022 – JUNE 2024 - 1.5YEARS

Design for high-speed Retimer-based Time Domain Analog to Digital Converter. AMS Simulating for Voltage to Delay Converter.

• PRE-SILICON VALIDATION(AUG 2021 – DEC 2022 - 1 YEAR)

Modelling of High-speed Time Domain ADC to generate Power-up and Background Calibration method with MATLAB. Implementing the same in Firmware. AMS Verification of high-speed Retimer by generating Verilog model and Firmware.

• POST SILICON VALIDATION(JUL 2019 – JUL 2021 - 2 YEARS)

Post Silicon Validation for AFE80xx, including IP verification and generating a trim algorithm, and validating the functionality of new architectural features. Responsible for the development of methodologies, execution of validation plans/ coverage, and triage of failures for Stability and Concurrency Validation for AFE80xx, a high-performance, wide bandwidth multi-channel transceiver with 8T8R. Including EVM Design for higher frequency with High Bandwidth Matching Design.

• Developing high power Nanosecond Pulse Laser Driver using a GaN FET to study properties of CdZnTe pixel detectors.

Understood photon interactions with semiconductor detectors and built an experimental setup combining optics and electronics to generate controlled light pulses.