Shardool Upadhyay
Design Verification Engineer
Allahabad
Summary
An expert in cache-coherency and coresight debug sub-system verification, with hands-on experience in SoC and subsystem level functional and performance verification and strong knowledge in ARM & Risc-V Core
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Staff Engineer
Sifive India
07.2022 - Current
- Owned complete end-to-end verification of CXL port in Risc-v core.
- Developed UVMbased unit testbench from scratch to verify Tilelink2 to CXL bridge functionality and lead project to closure with high quality.
- Working on Risc-v in-order core's vector-unit verification.
- Leading a matrix multiplication accelerator verification based on custom ISA.
- Developed a UVM-based unit testbench to verify matrix multiplication accelerator functionality.
- Worked on Risc-v core performance verification by creating micro benchmarks.
- Owned Cache's performance counters functionality verification using dynamic simulation and formal tool.
Staff Engineer
NXP Semiconductors
12.2015 - 06.2022
- Part of SoC verification team in Auto domain.
- Created a detailed verification plan for Arm based Cortex A78 core in SoC context and developed test scenarios for the same.
- Developed BFM based test environment to extract performance metrics (min/avg/max latency, avg. throughput) for all master slave pair in SoC.
- Lead coherent-interconnect's (Arteris) functional and performance verification in SoC.
- Developed a comprehensive strategy for system verification of arm coresight based debug subsystem (A53 core, M7 core, accelerated core, CTI-CTM, Trace subsystem, safety-debug) and executed the plan with excellent quality.
- Created a complete verification plan to verify 3rd party accelerator core and CNN IP in SoC context and lead verification to closure with excellent quality.
- Developed vision use-case scenarios for vision based auto-SoCs which include multiple vision-IPs.
- Worked on verification of safety timer,fast-dma and I2C IP in auto based SoCs.
Senior Verification Engineer
Samsung Research Institute Bangalore
07.2013 - 12.2015
- Contributed to multi-cluster coherency verification of the CPU-Memory subsystem by creating random coherency scenarios and quality debugs.
- Developed end-to-end coherency checkers & ordering checker for coherent interconnect
- Contributed in UVM based unit level verification of SLIMbus IP(MIPI)
Education
B.Tech. -
Moti Lal Nehru National Institute Of Technology(NIT Allahabad)
Prayagraj 07.2009 - 05.2013
Inter/10+2 -
B.B.S. Inter College
Prayagraj 07.2008 - 05.2008
10th -
B.B.S. Inter College
Prayagraj 07.2005 - 05.2006
Skills
- HDLs: Verilog, System Verilog
- Programming Languages: C
- Simulators: vcs, incisive
- Formal Verification: vcformal (APPS: FPV,FRV,FTA)
- Scripting Languages: Perl, Shell, Makeflow
Revision Control: Design Sync, git
Debugger: Verdi, Simvision
- Verification Methodology: UVM
Protocols: CXL,Tilelink,AMBA(APB,AXI,AHB,ACE/ACE-Lite,CHI), MESI/MOESI,ATB
Processor: Risc-V, ARM, XM6 (accelerator core)
Interconnect: FlexNoC, Concerto(Coherent interconnect)
- File Editor: vim
Accomplishments
- Received 4 Winning starts here award in NXP.
- Received various peers appreciation award.
- Secured AIR 110 in GATE 2013.
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 01/01/1992
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
Timeline
Staff Engineer
Sifive India
07.2022 - Current
Staff Engineer
NXP Semiconductors
12.2015 - 06.2022
Senior Verification Engineer
Samsung Research Institute Bangalore
07.2013 - 12.2015
B.Tech. -
Moti Lal Nehru National Institute Of Technology(NIT Allahabad)
07.2009 - 05.2013
Inter/10+2 -
B.B.S. Inter College
07.2008 - 05.2008
10th -
B.B.S. Inter College
07.2005 - 05.2006
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