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Samana Achar

Bangalore

Summary

With over 9 years of experience in the IT industry, I have honed my skills in RTL design for ASIC, dedicating 7 years to this specialized field. I also have 2 years of experience in Java development projects from May 2014 to February 2016. Throughout my career, I have successfully facilitated team building activities as an Analyst. My strengths include excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a team.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Lead Engineer

Qualcomm Ltd
12.2020 - Current
  • Designed feature to track various FSM states. This implementation helps in active debug on Silicon.
  • Design update to support multiple AWID for AXI inbound transactions in order to avoid serialization of writes from different traffic classes at SMMU.
  • Knowledge on PCIe Gen 3/4/5 speed controller including both Root Complex and End Point design.
  • Owned PCIe design deliverables from feature development to PD handoff for various chips including Lint checks, CDC, Synthesis, Timing closure, Power analysis.
  • Exposure to chip architecture overview.
  • Debugging of issues reported on FPGA and Silicon.

Module Lead

Mindtree Ltd
07.2017 - 12.2020
  • Analysis of specification, micro level architecture and RTL designing for BLE ISOC packet transmission.
  • PAST (Periodic Advertisement Sync Transfer) is a feature updated by Bluetooth SIG as part of BLE v5.1. Understanding of requirement, analysis and implementation of the same was executed.
  • The objective of the project was to develop a module of Bluetooth Low Energy to sniff the air packets when two Bluetooth devices communicate. The design approach, implementation, verification was executed for the same.

Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra Ltd
01.2014 - 01.2016

As a software developer my role was to build applications for an automobile client which had users worldwide.

  • Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces.
  • Developed robust, scalable, modular and API-centric infrastructures.
  • Collaborated with management, internal and development partners regarding software application design status and project progress.
  • Delivered unit-tested systems within customer-prescribed timeframes.

Education

B.E - Instrumentation Technology

Vishveswaraiah Technological University
01.2013

M Tech - VLSI and Embedded System

Vishveswaraiah Technological University
01.2017

HSC - undefined

Karnataka State Board
01.2009

SSC -

Karnataka State Board
01.2007

Skills

  • Verilog
  • ASIC
  • FPGA
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Synopsys VCS
  • Synopsys DC compiler
  • Cadence NCSim
  • Shell
  • Perl
  • TCL

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Kannada
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Tulu
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Upper intermediate (B2)

Timeline

Senior Lead Engineer

Qualcomm Ltd
12.2020 - Current

Module Lead

Mindtree Ltd
07.2017 - 12.2020

Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra Ltd
01.2014 - 01.2016

M Tech - VLSI and Embedded System

Vishveswaraiah Technological University

HSC - undefined

Karnataka State Board

B.E - Instrumentation Technology

Vishveswaraiah Technological University

SSC -

Karnataka State Board
Samana Achar