Deepinder Singh

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India19 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

18+ years in semiconductor industry with diverse roles.
Expert in SoC validation and automation methodologies.
Proven track record in high-performance project delivery.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a semiconductor industry expert with a focus on SoC validation and automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

SocValidationAutomationEngineering

Other Skills

EmulationPre-silicon ValidationCore IPClient SOCsIOT SOCsEdge Server SOCsDDR2 Subsystem Functional ValidationLow Power State machinePHY layerAutomation for ValidationElectrical CharacterizationThermal AnalysisPerformance BenchmarkingPower efficiency analysisPVT Regression

About

With 18+ years of experience in the semiconductor industry, Deepinder has essayed varied roles with exposure on: • Numerous single/multi-chip SOC Platforms including 2G/3G/LTE/5G Modems, ARM & x86 based Client, Application SOCs, IOT & Wearable class products. • Interaction with industry leading customers to facilitate in-time product ramp-up at multiple sites. • SOC bring-up planning & execution. • Pre & Post SOC Validation. • Emulation/Prototyping & bring-up of large designs. • HW/SW co-validation on FPGA based designs • Performance Benchmarking & Power KPI analysis. • Root cause analysis of complex customer issues in close quarters with designers & architects. • PVT Characterization & Robustness validation. • Memory subsystems, SerDes & Serial protocols • Maturity of new protocol standards. • Extensive Product documentation. • ARM architecture. • x86 architecture. • Power architecture. • SOC development flow & process engineering. • End to end automation of validation & PVT characterization processes. • Mentoring, Recruitment & Competency ramp-up Domain Specialties: Driving high performance target driven projects, Emulation & Prototyping, Pre & Post-Silicon Validation, SoC bring-up, Automation methodologies, Robustness & Regression process deployment, Complex Multicore SoC environments, Industry standard Compliance & Interoperability, Cross cultural & Multi-geo engagements. Synergizing with customers for product integration & mass production,

Experience

19 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

12 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Intel corporation

Senior Technical Manager/Leader

Jan 2014 – Present · 12 yrs 3 mos

Leading Emulation & Pre-silicon Validation of Core IP & Client, IOT, Edge Server SOCs

EmulationPre-silicon ValidationCore IPClient SOCsIOT SOCsEdge Server SOCs+2

Ericsson r&d

Technical Lead

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs

Leading DDR2 Subsystem Functional Validation consisting of Low Power State machine implementation, PHY layer & the LpDDR chip for Ericsson's HSDPA/LTE Modem SOC product line.
Leading the project to ideate, develop and deploy end to end automation for Validation, Electrical Characterization and Thermal Analysis of the DUT.
Performance Benchmarking, Power efficiency analysis & System Use-Case analysis.
Conceptualizing and deploying PVT Regression & Robustness Validation methodology.
Mentoring & Recruitment.
SOC Bring up planning & execution.

DDR2 Subsystem Functional ValidationLow Power State machinePHY layerAutomation for ValidationElectrical CharacterizationThermal Analysis+9

St-ericsson

Senior System Software Engineer / Senior Validation Engineer

Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs

Worked close to customers like Samsung, HTC and SONY to provide SOC perspective during their smartphone/tablet product ramp-ups with ST-Ericsson's NovaThor platform which included ARM based dual core Application processor, 3G-Modem & a separate Power Management chip.
Represented SOC competency at critical issue resolution taskforces during final stages of product ramp-ups at customer sites to achieve mass production in time.
Co-operation with Field Quality & Customer Support teams to analyze/breakdown customer issues.
Main areas of Focus include: DDR/Memory subsystem, Clocking, System Power Management & Serial Protocols.
Memory Compliance & Qualification for different products.
Worked on validation, characterization & maturity of ST-Ericsson's Cortex-A9 dual core Mobile App Processor SOC DB8500/8520
for new industry standards for RAM sharing & Inter-Processor communication protocols
Interoperability workshops with other leading market players.
Conceptualized Automation Solutions for process enhancement & drastically reducing the validation time.

SOC perspectiveDDR/Memory subsystemClockingSystem Power ManagementSerial ProtocolsMemory Compliance+4

Stmicroelectronics

2 roles

Design Engineer / System Software Engineer

Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 · 3 yrs · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Worked on the STMicrelectronics Nomadik Application Processor series for wireless market to:
Develop test suites & plans to conform with the IP specification.
Perform Pre-SOC & SOC Functional Validation & Electrical Characterisation for various Serial Protocols like I2C, UART, SPI, MSP & PWM.
Operate in conjunction with Design & Verification teams to identify & fix SOC issues.
Help Integration & SW teams understand and implement HW features at OS layer.
Also, worked on the maturity of upcoming Low Power serial interaces in the mobile application processor space like MIPI SLIMbus on both Emulation platforms & Silicon.

Test suitesPre-SOC ValidationSOC Functional ValidationElectrical CharacterisationSerial ProtocolsIntegration+3

Intern

Jul 2006 – Dec 2006 · 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Worked on STM's proprietary Low power display panel solution STFPC311/320 for entertainment devices.
Understanding SOC product life cycle & Project maturity milestones.
Assisting on reference board design for customer demonstrations.
Studying standby power management efficiency for the product.

Low power display panel solutionProject maturity milestonesReference board designStandby power management efficiency