Research and Academic Interests

AMANDA - Advanced Metrology And Nano-Device Applications

Current research interests include:

Currently working on identifying, designing and eventually fabricating suitable electric field sensors and oscillators which constitute the hardware section of a biomedical device. Apart from this, I have research and project experienced in dealing with:

• Hardware Circuit Design
• Testing, Verification and Validation
• Scripting and Programming

Education

Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, S.R.M University, Chennai, India

Selected Projects

Digital VLSI Design

Implemented a 64-bit arithmetic unit (AU) using various logic styles and compared their performance against a baseline built from static CMOS gates. The project also involved making custom made libraries for the gate level implementation of the basic cells in the respective logic styles that the AU is being designed in

Worked on a project on sequential circuit analysis. The project aimed to develop an algorithm for eliminating indeterminate intermediary signals in a circuit by the addition of a reset circuitry to the design with care being taken not to change the logic of the circuit

Implemented a bowling scoreboard display using a PS/2 interface that connected with a VGA display unit and a state machine all of which were described using HDL and synthesized.

Analog VLSI and RFIC Design

Designed a fast and power efficient 4-Bit Flash ADC which was targeted for the use of audio applications. The ADC was operated at 1.2MHz and had a power dissipation of 15mW and a reference voltage of 4.6V

Micro fabrication Experience

Fabricated and characterized many BiCMOS devices on a silicon wafer in the micro fabrication laboratory

Fabricated and characterized a pressure sensor as a part of the micro sensors and actuators coursework

Conducted Research Studies on the topics:

"Computation of Primes of a Boolean Function using a extended space approach".
"A comprehensive approach to the partial scan problem using implicit state enumeration techniques".

Senior Thesis Project: Optical Wireless Data Transfer Using RGB LEDs

Red, Green and Blue components of light were encoded with information enabling simultaneous access to all 3 channels resulting in effectively utilizing of the bandwidth and also making RGB LEDs useful for both communication and illumination.