Pilli Sathavardhana Rao

Software Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India8 yrs 4 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in VLSI and Analog Circuit Design.
  • Proficient in memory design and characterization.
  • Experienced in high-performance oscillator design.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a VLSI Engineer with expertise in Analog Circuit Design and Memory Characterization.

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Skills

Core Skills

VlsiAnalog Circuit DesignStandard Cell Design

Other Skills

Circuit DesignIntegrated Circuit DesignDigital Circuit DesignCircuit AnalysisElectronic Circuit DesignStandard cellVLSI CADAMSQAVery-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI)CharacterizationScriptingAdvanced Design System (ADS)LinuxPERL

About

RF Design: 3D Modelling of components. Studied and worked on designing of inductor & capacitor (passive component design) using substrate integrated wave guides(SIW) technology in ANSYS HFSS . Design of component on substrate. SOS- system on substrate. S-parameter analysis and component device model extraction for the inductor & capacitor. Analog Circuit Design : Signal generator block design. Studied and worked on design of high performance Oscillator design using different models and at lower technologie nodes Colpitts capacitance divide model design of resonance tank using SIW components. Integrated system on chip(SOC) with system of substrate( SOS) and designed a high performance design that works from 1GHz to 300GHz range. Memory Design & Characterization : SRAM, DRAM & ROM. schematic design analysis of Bit cell, Sense amplifier, Local & Global control blocks. Study and analysis of bit cell in terms of Area, Power & Leakage, low voltage application & performance. Bit cell analysis to characterize Static Noise Margin(SNM), Read & Write margin, Leakage & Read current, Flip-time. Sense Amplifier offset analysis - Systematic offset & random offset analysis. Designed the memory block circuits in schematic and got netlist files and simulated using Eldo-simulator. worked on SRAM & ROM memory characterization. worked on memory timing analysis such as Address, Access, Setup, Hold, Cycle timing across PVT's. Writing measures and stimuli for the timing characterization. Good understanding of low power memory architectures such as multi banking architecture, divided word line architecture etc., Self timing path design and debugging of worst case & simulate across all PVT's. Analysis of liberty files across all the PVT's. Standard Cell Design & Characterization: Timing, Power, Noise & Variations. Standard cell design & characterization of basic logic gate cells like AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR, INV, BUF, FLOP etc..., Timing characterization using NLDM (non-linear delay) model, CCS(composite current source) model, ECSM( effective current source) model. Power characterization using NLPM(non -linear power) model CCSP model, ECSMP model. Noise characterization using CCSN model, NLDM model, ECSM model with CCC(channel connected components). Chip Variations using AOCV, POCV, SBOCV, LVF formats for liberty file . IO Characterization : DotLib & verilog view generation for timing, power & noise Working with lower node techologies with different IO models and physical view generation & Quality analysis.

Experience

8 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
1 yr
Average Tenure
11 mos
Current Experience

Intel corporation

2 roles

AMS Characterization Engineer

Jul 2025Present · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Working on HPTP3 / PHY IP Characterization and Delivery to SD as contract engineer

Standard cell characterization Engineer

Nov 2024May 2025 · 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

  • worked on standard cell characterization for PRODLIB BA Team (contract)

Eximietas design

Module Lead

May 2025Present · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Working on IO Characterization for SanDisk ODC .

Wipro

Senior Project Engineer

May 2024May 2025 · 1 yr · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

  • worked on AMS Characterization for Reneseas ODC

Synopsys inc

2 roles

Analog Design Sr Engineer

Feb 2024May 2024 · 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

  • working on IO characterization, physical view generation, QA and package delivery.
VLSICircuit DesignAnalog Circuit Design

A&MS Circuit Design Engineer II

Nov 2022Jan 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

  • Working on IO Characterization, Physical Views Generation, QA

Intel corporation

IO characterization Engineer

Jan 2022Oct 2022 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • worked on IO characterization( contract)
VLSIAnalog Circuit DesignIntegrated Circuit DesignDigital Circuit DesignCircuit AnalysisElectronic Circuit Design

Hcl technologies

Member Of Technical Staff

Sep 2021Oct 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Works on complex IO digital & analog cells characterization in 3nm,4nm,5nm&7nm with Intel client
Standard cellVLSI CADVlsiStandard Cell DesignVLSI

Nvidia

Quality Analyst

Jun 2021Sep 2021 · 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Worked in Data Factory team as QA for AI in-vehicle Automation with Lidar & vehicle Mapping checks using AVI - AI, Humanloop & Meglev-prod-sjc4 tool(HL2 labeler) Tools

Pozibility technologies pvt ltd

Memory Design Engineer

Feb 2020Jan 2021 · 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • worked on design and characterization of Memory & standard cell Blocks.

3d-ip semiconductors

Memory Design Trainee

Nov 2019Feb 2020 · 3 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Worked on Standard Cell & Memory Blocks

Chegg inc.

Subject Matter Expert

Aug 2017Jun 2021 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Electronic and communication Engineering

Bharat sanchar nigam limited

Inplant Training

Jun 2016Jul 2016 · 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • BASIC TELECOM

Electronics corporation of india limited (ecil)

Student Intern

Dec 2015Jan 2016 · 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • ARM7 LPC2148 PROCESSOR BASED VEHICLE TRACKING USING GSM & GPS

Defence research and development organisation (drdo)

Reseach Intern

Jun 2015Jul 2015 · 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • DIGITAL VIDEO AND FIBER OPTICS

Iete-isf

IETE-ISF MEMBER

Mar 2015Mar 2018 · 3 yrs · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  • Member of the institution of electronics and telecommunication engineers
  • Mem.No: FG-A 115980,
  • Ref.No: ISFC266

Education

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Master of Technology - MTech — VLSI DESIGN

Jan 2017Jan 2019

SRM IST Chennai

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jan 2013Jan 2017

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