SANDEEP KUMAR SONI

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in physical design implementation and delivery.
  • Proven track record in complex SoC implementations.
  • Skilled in power optimization and timing closure.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Semiconductor Design Engineer with expertise in physical design and low-power optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Low-power DesignPower AnalysisHigh-speed DesignPower Reduction

Other Skills

ScriptingAutomationPhysical DesignTiming ClosureIntegrated Circuit DesignASICSoCSynopsys PrimetimeRedhawkCaliberTCLPerlAwkVerilogDRC

About

• A veteran in physical design implementation with an exemplary record of execution and delivery of all kinds of design/subsystem from floorplan till tapeout by leading a team • Specializing in PPA improvement, full-chip power optimization, and timing closure. • Proven track record of leading teams through complex SoC implementations across multiple technology nodes. • Skilled in defining voltage-frequency (VF) operating points and creating PVT corners. • Adept in scripting and automation with hands-on expertise in industry-standard EDA tools.

Experience

12 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Intel corporation

3 roles

Physical Design Manager

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Physical Design Engineer

Mar 2020Present · 6 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

SoC Design Engineer

Mar 2020Aug 2023 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Qualcomm

Senior Design Engineer

May 2017Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Handled multiple projects of low power design in multiple technologies (5lpp, 7ff, 8lpp, 11lpp)
  • Handled many multimillion subsystems having multiple power domains (switchable and always on), high congestion, thousands of Feedthroughs (FTs), hundreds of clocks, many PLLs and RCGs, thousands of retention registers, many PMUXs, thousands of level-shifters and isolation cells
  • Reduced work complexity by writing various scripts
  • Implemented island buffering for overall area saving and reducing congestion
  • Implemented OCC
  • Successful closer of all the blocks with high utilization target with on time tapeout
Low-power DesignPower AnalysisScriptingAutomation

Broadcom limited

Physical Design Engineer

Jun 2013May 2017 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Implemented many designs in multiple projects with successful tapeouts of high-speed multi-million digital SoC in 16 and 28nm technology
  • Major contributor in timely tapeout of 16nm chip after complete closer of a most critical and sensitive block assigned at a very critical point of the project
  • Reduced the power by a significant amount of a multi instantiated design, hence reduced over all chip power
  • Implemented a highly congested block where crosstalk was the major issue
  • Reduced work complexity by writing various scripts
High-speed DesignPower ReductionScripting

Education

National institute of science and technology, odhisa

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)

Jan 2009Jan 2013

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