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Vinay Shivakumar

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 18 years of expertise in physical design.
  • Mastery in tools and methodologies from 350nm to sub 5nm.
  • Proven leadership in complex semiconductor projects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Semiconductor Design Expert with extensive experience in physical design and implementation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Physical DesignClock DistributionTiming Closure

Other Skills

90nm BlocksASICCMOSCadenceCadence EDICadence VirtuosoCircuit DesignClock Tree SynthesisComputer ArchitectureDFM ImprovementDRCDebuggingDigital Signal ProcessorsEDAFloor Planning

About

~18 years of physical design experience from 350 nm to sub 5nm in a plethora of tools /flows etc. A part of me would want to think that I am a Physical design master . But , the truth is that I learn something new everyday , and I enjoy it :) Have something super challenging ? I'm in !!

Experience

Google

Engineering Manager

Feb 2019Present · 7 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Amd

2 roles

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Jul 2014Feb 2019 · 4 yrs 7 mos

  • Partitioning and floor planning for the high performance L3 cache subsystem IP.
  • Clock distribution for the L3 cache subsystem.
  • Clock distribution of a high performance x86 processor cluster.
  • Implementation lead for CPU floating point subsystem.
PartitioningFloor PlanningClock DistributionPhysical Design

Member of Technical Staff

Jun 2012Jun 2014 · 2 yrs

  • 1) Puma+ - Power reduction and DFM improvement of a high performance x86 processor/cache cluster at 28nm
  • 2) Skybridge - Led the clock distribution effort for ARM core + cache cluster at 20nm. Worked on timing closure on some very critical paths.
  • 3) Skybridge - Led the clock distribution effort for x86 processor core + cache cluster at 20nm
  • 4) Defined the VT swap methodology for Skybridge and Puma+ projects. Also worked on some other power-reduction schemes.
Power ReductionDFM ImprovementTiming ClosurePhysical Design

Texas instruments

Consultant (Physical Design)

Jan 2012May 2012 · 4 mos · Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

  • Physical implementation of DSP subsystem
  • 28nm Low power implementation, 600Mhz +
Physical ImplementationLow Power ImplementationPhysical Design

Open-silicon

2 roles

Consultant

Jul 2011Sep 2011 · 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Led Physical design flow developement for SOC Encounter
  • QOR improvement
Physical Design Flow DevelopmentQOR ImprovementPhysical Design

ASIC design engineer

May 2009Dec 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Physical Design of a hierarchical design.
  • Partioning and budgeting
  • Flow enhancements and maintenance.
Physical DesignPartitioningFlow Enhancements

Plx technology

Consultant

Aug 2008Nov 2008 · 3 mos

  • Responsible for the implementation of 3 90nm blocks in talus
Implementation90nm BlocksPhysical Design

Fastrack design

DESIGN ENGINEER

Feb 2008May 2009 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Physical design of several blocks. Was part of 2 tape outs.
Physical DesignTape Out

Wipro technologies

Project Engineer - VLSI/Physical Design

Sep 2005Feb 2008 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Physical design of blocks and full chip.
Physical DesignFull Chip Design

Education

UC Santa Barbara

MS — Electrical Engineering

Jan 2011Jan 2011

Anna University Chennai

Bachelor of Engineering — Electronics and communication

Jan 2001Jan 2005

Balalok

Jan 1987Jan 2001

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