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Vinay Kumar Sunchikala

Bengaluru

Summary

A dedicated Hardware Design Engineer with a track record of 12.01 years of experience translating conceptual ideas into tangible, high-performance hardware solutions. Experienced in all phases of the hardware design lifecycle, from conceptualization and schematic design to prototyping and testing. Collaborative and communicative team player with a strong commitment to delivering robust and efficient hardware designs.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Hardware Designer - Manager

JIO Platforms Ltd
03.2020 - Current
  • Part of 5G Small cell Radio systems Hardware design and development team.
  • Worked on Qualcomm, Xilinx and Network Processors (NXP) based platforms.
  • Developing and designing hardware components, circuits, and systems consisting RFSOCs, 5G Modems chipsets, Network processors, High speed interfaces, timing synchronizations and communication interfaces using Allegro OrCAD schematic capture.
  • Synchronize with PCB Engineer on Placement, layout, layer stackup and routing.
  • Experience with High speed Interfaces including 25G, 10G SerDes, PCI Express, DDR4 and GbEthernet's, Memory Interfaces and low speed interfaces - SPI, I2C, USB, UARTs,
  • Review and analyze cross functional teams layouts, Signal Integrity, Power integrity and thermal reports.
  • Conducting thorough testing and validation of hardware designs to ensure performance, reliability, and compliance with industry standards.
  • Engage mechanical team and software team to ensure application compatibility and performance.
  • Ensuring hardware designs comply with relevant industry regulations, standards, and certifications.

Senior VLSI Engineer - Hardware Board Design

Wipro Limited
10.2019 - 03.2020
  • Part of Hardware Board Design on Intel based platforms.
  • Contributed to the building and testing of hardware prototypes, gaining experience in analyzing results and refining designs.
  • Debug present issues.

Sr Engineer - Embedded Hardware Design

Sigma Microsystems Private Limited
01.2014 - 09.2019
  • I was involved in multiple engineering disciplines in the specifications, test, and support of airborne electronic subsystems including FPGAs, Microprocessors and controllers.
  • Responsible for product management, customer relationship, FPGA design, and board level hardware design for new products as well as existing products.
  • I was responsible for design and development of boards with high speed digital and/or analog boards and systems using PADS mentor graphics schematic capture consisting of FPGAs, Microprocessors, Memory devices, and communication interfaces.
  • Involved in process of Component Management, Symbol & model library creation, schematic entry guidelines, net listing & BOM (Bill of Material) generation process.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams for board layout, simulations, mechanical - support, analyze, debug results of characterization to meet goals.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Aurora's Scientific And Technological Institute
Hyderabad, India
04.2012

Skills

Hardware Design - High Speed, Digital, Analog, Power

Schematic Tools - OrCAD schematic capture, PADS

Interfaces - DDR,Differential lines, PCI Express, AURORA, High speed SerDes GbEthernet, SPI, I2C, USB, UARTs

Equipments - Oscilloscope, logic analyzers, Signal analyzers, generators and multimeters

Documentation - PRD,PDR,HLDD,DDD,TS,TP and QTP

EMI/EMC- CE,CS,RE,RS and ESD

Environment - Temperature,Thermal,Shock and Bump Tests

Standards Exposure - MIL 461, IEEE and respective internal quality standards

Industry - Telecom, Consumer electronics and Defense

Programming Acquittance - Ability to read perceive existing code in Verilog/VHDL

Timeline

Hardware Designer - Manager

JIO Platforms Ltd
03.2020 - Current

Senior VLSI Engineer - Hardware Board Design

Wipro Limited
10.2019 - 03.2020

Sr Engineer - Embedded Hardware Design

Sigma Microsystems Private Limited
01.2014 - 09.2019

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Aurora's Scientific And Technological Institute
Vinay Kumar Sunchikala