Sai Santosh Balla — Software Engineer

Embedded Systems Engineer with hands-on experience in ARM Cortex-A78AE, Cortex-R52, and Cortex-M4 processors, specializing in SoC bring-up, firmware validation, and low-level system debugging on advanced 7nm and 5nm semiconductor platforms. Proficient in Linux bring-up, boot flow debugging, and boot modes including eMMC, SD, OSPI, and QSPI across both emulation platforms and silicon. Experienced in system performance evaluation using Dhrystone, CoreMark, CoreMark-PRO, STREAM, and LMbench benchmarks. Strong expertise in SoC and IP validation, including features such as interrupts, exceptions, timers, PMU events, ECC, memory protection, TrustZone, lockstep, power and clock management, frequency scaling, and cache coherency. Experienced in working with pre-silicon and post-silicon environments, developing and executing validation test plans for components such as ARM cores, DMA, DDR, OCM, TCM, NoC, and PS-PL subsystems. Proficient in bare-metal validation, DDR memory testing, and early platform bring-up, along with analyzing IP specifications, developing validation strategies, executing regression suites, and debugging system issues using JTAG-based tools. Experienced in defect tracking and cross-functional collaboration using JIRA to ensure system reliability, stability, and performance.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a specialist in Embedded Systems Engineering with a focus on semiconductor validation.

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Experience: 3 yrs 11 mos