Ramanathan S

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India24 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 11 years of experience in ASIC verification.
  • Led multiple successful verification projects at NVIDIA.
  • Expert in emulation and board bring-up processes.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Semiconductor and Networking verification expert with extensive experience in ASIC and FPGA design.

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Skills

Core Skills

Asic VerificationFunctional VerificationEmulationFpga Design

Other Skills

System VerilogVMMTest planScheduleVerification environmentSystemCVerificationModule LeadValidationGLSBoard Bring-upRTL/netlist flowVHDLBoard DebugVerilog

About

More than 11 years of experince in * Leading Verif effort * ASIC Verification, * ASIC Verif flow * Test plans, Schedules, * Env Architecting * System Validation * Emulation setup * Board bringup Specialties: Emulation, formal verification, Verification flow, VMM, Systemverilog, Env architecting, Ethernet Verification.

Experience

24 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
6 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
14 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Nvidia

2 roles

Manager

Promoted

Oct 2013Present · 12 yrs 7 mos

Senior ASIC Engineer

Oct 2011Oct 2013 · 2 yrs

Lsi logic

Staff Engineer

Mar 2010Oct 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Mentoring Interns
  • Mentored an Intern to come up to speed in System Verilog and implement Functional Coverage
  • 100G MAC Verif
  • Lead the verification effort
  • Test plan
  • Schedule
  • VMM based env/test cases/Scorebard etc
  • Test chip Full chip verification (10m/100m/1G/10G/40G)
  • Lead the verification effort
  • Test plan
  • Schedule
  • VMM based env/test cases/Scorebard etc
  • Subsystem level verification
  • Created a very flexible env which helps to change the DUT/project config and get up the verif env very very fast for any Config
  • Customer presentations for verification like test plan
  • Lead Engineer
  • Test plan
  • Schedule
  • VMM based env/test cases
  • Random tests
System VerilogVMMTest planScheduleVerification environmentASIC Verification+1

Cisco systems

Hardware Engineer

Jul 2006Mar 2010 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Silicon proven Strong Modelling/Verification/Test Plan/Test case/Module lead skills
  • Involved in Verification of multimillion gate ASICs/IP of complex networking chips.
  • Owned/Built SystemC reference models design from scratch for a Major Block
  • Owned/Built verification envs in SystemVerilog from scratch.
  • Owned LEC flow setup for diff stages backend stages from scratch for multiple silicon proven chips
  • Involved in Performance verification of Silicon Proven MACSec IP
  • Involved in Full chip GLS/Verplex/ECOs/Reference Model/Verification of a silicon proven FC chip
SystemCSystemVerilogVerificationTest PlanModule LeadASIC Verification+1

Intel corporation

Senior Component Design Engineer

Mar 2002Jul 2006 · 4 yrs 4 mos

  • Silicon Proven FV/Emulation/GLS/Validation skills
  • 2+ years of extensive experience in setting up Emulation setup with palladuim with RTL/netlist flow.
  • Was responsible for setting up an emulation setup for an Ethernet switch with netlist/RTL flows. Instrumental in packing 2 huge design in a emulator, improving productivity by 2x.
  • Won 2 SRAs, 1 for PCI validation and 1 for emulation
  • Was responsible for verification for Qos/PCI interface of a Ethernet chip.
  • Also responsible for board bringup of a ethernet chip. Won DRA for a very speedby bringup of the chip. Provided enough support to fibbing team for a timing correction in XAUI interface.
  • Was responsible for GLS of 3 GMCH chips. (1 SRA for this activity)
  • Was fully responsible for power validation in GLS of a graphic partition.
  • Was responsible in setting up a GLS flow for a memory controller interface.
  • Was fully responsible for the FV/ECO flow setup for a stepping of a GMCH chipset in india.
  • Was responsible for training people the FV setup flow for GMCH chipsets.
EmulationValidationGLSBoard Bring-upFunctional Verification

Wipro technologies

Senior Engineer VLSI/System Design

Nov 1999Mar 2002 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Worked on 2 projects
  • First project included board schematics development, board debug, FPGA design, testbench development in VHDL and verification. Also included was FPGA backend tools. FPGA was designed to augment an existing conextant ATM chip.
  • Second project was intended to work as a graphic processor. Designed an FPGA interface to work with a PCI-X core. Also was responsible for setting the verification flow in VHDL.
VHDLFPGA DesignBoard Debug

Education

College of Engineering Trivandrum

Bachelor of Technology — Applied Electronics & Instrumentation

Jan 1995Jan 1999

Government arts college

Pre University — Science

Jan 1993Jan 1995

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